Foreign Investment in Asia in the 1990s: Trends, Problems and Implications for Manpower Movements

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 529-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sueo Sekiguchi
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
North America ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Capital Flows ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Direct Foreign Investment ◽  
The Other ◽  
International Capital ◽  
International Labor ◽  
The U.S

The diversity and rapidity of change in direct foreign investment (DFI) are described for flows among North America, Western Europe, Japan, ASEAN, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Korea and Russia. The U.S. share of DFI in Pacific Rim countries has declined, while that of Japan and Western Europe has increased. The NIEs have emerged as new investors in the region. The decline in U.S. DFI is likely to be compensated by Asian intra-regional flows initiated by Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong. On one hand, international capital flows can serve as a substitute for international labor flows; on the other, DFI can also give rise to bidirectional flows of manpower ranging from unskilled to professional levels.

Turning Points in International Labor Migration: A Case Study of Thailand

1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pracha Vasuprasat
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Direct Foreign Investment ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Commodity Export ◽  
Gulf Crisis ◽  
Market Needs

This article describes the dynamics of the structural transformation of the Thai economy, labor migration and direct foreign investment and proposes an econometric model to explain the migration phenomenon. Though migration shifts have been significantly influenced by political factors such as the Gulf crisis and tensions with Saudi Arabia, economic factors such as the Thai government's liberalization of markets and the expansion of trade and direct foreign investment have contributed to changes in labor market needs. The economic conditions for a shift from net exporter to net importer of labor are posited in the model. The empirical results reveal a turning point in labor migration from Thailand and also confirm the contribution of commodity export in place of labor export in creating employment and income.

scholarly journals A Primer on Exporting to Honduras

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2005 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina D. Storz ◽  
Timothy G. Taylor ◽  
Gary F. Fairchild
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Direct Foreign Investment ◽  
Resource Economics ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
Export Markets ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Investment Opportunities ◽  
The U.S

Every year the U.S. Department of State publishes extensive Country Commercial Guides for a large number of countries. These guides provide a great deal of information useful to individuals interested in developing export markets either through direct exports or through direct foreign investment. This paper provides an abridged version of the Country Commercial Guide for Honduras as well as supplemental information of direct relevance to agribusiness firms. It is hoped that the information contained in this report provides a useful starting point for individuals interested in exploring export or investment opportunities in Honduras. This is EDIS document FE515, a publication of the Department of Food and Resource Economics, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Published February 2005.

scholarly journals A Primer on Exporting to Guatemala

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2005 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina D. Storz ◽  
Timothy G. Taylor ◽  
Gary F. Fairchild
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Direct Foreign Investment ◽  
Resource Economics ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
Export Markets ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Investment Opportunities ◽  
The U.S

Every year the U.S. Department of State publishes extensive Country Commercial Guides for a large number of countries. These guides provide a great deal of information useful to individuals interested in developing export markets either through direct exports or through direct foreign investment. This paper provides an abridged version of the Country Commercial Guide for Guatemala as well as supplemental information of direct relevance to agribusiness firms. It is hoped that the information contained in this report provides a useful starting point for individuals interested in exploring export or investment opportunities in Guatemala. This is EDIS document FE513, a publication of the Department of Food and Resource Economics, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Published February 2005.

Two New Nearctic Species of Spilomyia (Diptera: Syrphidae), with a Note on the Taxonomic Value of Wing Microtrichia in the Syrphidae

1958 ◽  
Vol 90 (5) ◽  
pp. 284-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Vockeroth
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Western North America ◽  
The U.S

Three species of Spilomyia from western North America have been in the Canadian National Collection under the name Spilomyia interrupta Williston, 1882. Two of these are described below as new. Through the co-operation of Mr. Paul Arnaud, then of the U.S. National Museum, I examined the two female syntypes of interrupta and four other specimens of the group. One syntype, labelled “W.J.; Acc. 19702, Williston; Type No. 875, U.S.N.M.; Spilomyia interrupta Will.” on four labels is hereby designated as lectotype; it has been so labelled. The other syntype is a specimen of the species described below as Spilomyia citima n.sp. The other four specimens in the U.S.N.M. are all of interrupta: 1 ♂, Hopland, Calif., Sept.; 1 ♂, Mountains near Claremont, Calif.; 1 ♀, Tuolumne, Calif.; 1 ♀, Medford, Oreg. The C.N.C. contains two specimens of interrupta: 1 ♂, Hopland, Calif., Sept.; 1 ♀, Rowena, Oreg., Sept. 1, 1923 (on flowers of Eriogonum umbellatum). Mr. R. H. Foxlee of Robson, B.C., kindly sent me several specimens for study and donated most of them to the C.N.C.; it gives me pleasure to dedicate one of the new species to him.

Solutrean Settlement of North America? A Review of Reality

2000 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Guy Straus
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Southern France ◽  
Artistic Activity ◽  
Peopling Of The Americas ◽  
The Last Glacial Maximum ◽  
Eastern Seaboard ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Last Glacial

AbstractThe Solutrean techno-complex of southern France and the Iberian Peninsula is an impossible candidate as the “source” for either pre-Clovis or Clovis traditions in North America. Primarily this is because the Solutrean ended ca. 16,500-18,000 B.P. (at least 5,000 years before Clovis appeared) and was separated from the U.S. eastern seaboard by 5,000 km of ocean. In addition, there are major differences between the Solutrean and Clovis (and even more between it and “pre-Clovis”) in terms of the composition of lithic and osseous technologies and with regard to evidence of artistic activity. Nor is there any evidence that Solutrean people had navigation, deep-sea fishing, or marine mammal hunting capacities which could have made a transatlantic crossing even conceivable. Furthermore, there is no evidence that people lived above about 48° N latitude in western Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum, making a “jumping-off” point from the (then largely glaciated) area of the current British Isles unlikely. The peopling of the Americas, even if the result of several “migrations,” was from Asia.

scholarly journals A Primer on Exporting to Nicaragua

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2005 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina D. Storz ◽  
Timothy G. Taylor ◽  
Gary F. Fairchild
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Direct Foreign Investment ◽  
Resource Economics ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
Export Markets ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Investment Opportunities ◽  
The U.S

Every year the U.S. Department of State publishes extensive Country Commercial Guides for a large number of countries. These guides provide a great deal of information useful to individuals interested in developing export markets either through direct exports or through direct foreign investment. This paper provides an abridged version of the Country Commercial Guide for Nicaragua as well as supplemental information of direct relevance to agribusiness firms. It is hoped that the information contained in this report provides a useful starting point for individuals interested in exploring export or investment opportunities in Nicaragua. This is EDIS document FE518, a publication of the Department of Food and Resource Economics, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Published February 2005.

scholarly journals A Primer on Exporting to Mexico

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2005 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina D. Storz ◽  
Timothy G. Taylor ◽  
Gary F. Fairchild
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Direct Foreign Investment ◽  
Resource Economics ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
Export Markets ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Investment Opportunities ◽  
The U.S

Every year the U.S. Department of State publishes extensive Country Commercial Guides for a large number of countries. These guides provide a great deal of information useful to individuals interested in developing export markets either through direct exports or through direct foreign investment. This paper provides an abridged version of the Country Commercial Guide for Mexico as well as supplemental information of direct relevance to agribusiness firms. It is hoped that the information contained in this report provides a useful starting point for individuals interested in exploring export or investment opportunities in Mexico. This is EDIS document FE517, a publication of the Department of Food and Resource Economics, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Published February 2005.

scholarly journals A Primer on Exporting to Belize

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2005 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina D. Storz ◽  
Timothy G. Taylor ◽  
Gary F. Fairchild
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Direct Foreign Investment ◽  
Resource Economics ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Investment Opportunities ◽  
The U.S

Every year the U.S. Department of State publishes extensive Country Commercial Guides for a large number of countries. These guides provide a great deal of information useful to individuals interested in developing exports markets either through direct exports or through direct foreign investment. This paper provides an abridged version of the Country Commercial Guide for Belize as well as supplemental information of direct relevance to agribusiness firms It is hoped that the information contained in this report provides a useful starting point for individuals interested in exploring export or investment opportunities in Belize. This is EDIS document FE503, a publication of the Department of Food and Resource Economics, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Published February 2005.

scholarly journals The Muddles over Outsourcing

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 93-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jagdish Bhagwati ◽  
Arvind Panagariya ◽  
T.N Srinivasan
Keyword(s):  
Income Distribution ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Direct Foreign Investment ◽  
Offshore Outsourcing ◽  
Geographical Proximity ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Road ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
On Line ◽  
The U.S

Critics have muddled the public debate over offshore outsourcing by using the term interchangeably to refer to altogether different phenomena such as on-line purchase of services, direct foreign investment and, sometimes, all imports. We argue that clarity requires distinguishing among these various phenomena and define outsourcing explicitly as the services trade at arm's length that does not require geographical proximity of the buyer and the seller–the so-called Mode 1 services in the WTO terminology–conducted principally via the electronic mediums such as the telephone, fax and Internet. The definition is appropriate because this is the phenomenon that is relatively new and scary in public consciousness and has fueled the recent “outsourcing” debate. Under this definition, the total number of the U.S. jobs outsourced annually is minuscule and is expected to remain so over the next decade, even on a gross basis (i.e., without adjusting for the jobs in-sourced from the U.S.). The fears that offshore outsourcing will lead to high-value jobs being replaced by low-value jobs down the road are also argued here to be implausible in view of several qualitative arguments to the contrary. We also demonstrate that offshore outsourcing of Mode 1 services raises no new analytical issues, contrary to what many fear. Thus, it leads to gains from trade (with the standard caveats applicable to conventional trade in goods) and, in specific cases, to income-distribution effects.

Labour Market Considerations in Hong Kong

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 277-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradford W. Imrie
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
North America ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Associate Degree ◽  
The Other ◽  
Market Needs ◽  
The Uk

Labour market needs in Hong Kong continue to change and this paper deals with policies and planning related to sub-degree programmes at the higher vocational (HV) level, leading to the Higher Diploma (HD). The HD is equivalent to the associate degree in North America and, in the UK, to the Higher National Diploma (HND) which is generally accepted as pass degree equivalent. Since 1990 there have been far-reaching changes in the provision of the HD in Hong Kong and a review was initiated at the end of 1994. Two recent reports in Hong Kong are particularly significant: one dealing with manpower projections, the other with continuing education. It is vitally important that providers maintain quality while seeking to be more flexible. Some international considerations are addressed.

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