Globalization, Foreign Investment Dependence and Agriculture Production: Pesticide and Fertilizer Use in Less-developed Countries, 1990-2000

Social Forces ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 529-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. K. Jorgenson ◽  
K. A. Kuykendall
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
Fertilizer Use

scholarly journals Balance of Payments Effects of Investment in Manufacturing: The Case of Nigeria

1979 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-234
Author(s):  
Olukunle Iyanda
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Foreign Exchange ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Balance Of Payments ◽  
Less Developed Countries

In recent years, many less developed countries have thrown open their doors to foreign investment in manufacturing. It is believed that, by producing goods locally which otherwise would have been imported, foreign exchange would be conserved. This paper analyses the balance of payments impact of foreign direct investment in the manufacturing sector of Nigeria's economy to determine whether it is cheaper to produce locally through foreign-owned firms or to use any other alternate means of supplying local demand.

'Restrictive Business Practices', report by the UNCTAD Secretariat, April 1972.

1973 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-316
Author(s):  
G. M. Radhu
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
International Firms ◽  
The World ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Financial Power ◽  
Administrative Structures

The report by the UNCTAD Secretariat, submitted to the third session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development held in Santiago (Chile) in April 1972, deals with the restrictive business practices of the multinational corporations with special reference to the export interests of the developing countries. Since the world war, there has been a tremendous growth in the size and activities of many international firms. They have grown from the national corporation to the multidivisional corporation and now to the multinational corporation. With each step they acquired greater financial power, better technology and know-how and more complex administrative structures. They have subsidiaries and branches all over the world. In the course of the sixties they became one of the dominant factors in determining the pattern of world trade. At the same time, their increasingly restrictive business practices, which tended to adversely affect world trade and the export interest of less developed countries, attracted the attention of the governments both in developed and less developed countries and serious concern was shown at the international level. It is against this background that the UNCTAD undertook the study on the question of restrictive business practices.

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