ABSTRACT This study attempted to estimate the environmental impact of Foreign Direct Investment in the mining sector in Nigeria. It is argued that only those countries that have reached a certain income level can absorb new technologies and benefit from technology diffusion‚ and thus reap the extra advantages that FDI can offer. The mining industry in Nigeria is dominated by oil. Indeed‚ Nigeria is the largest producer of this commodity in Africa and sixth largest producers in the world. This research
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Impact on Outward/Inward Foreign Direct Investment This aim of this essay is to evaluate the impact of institutional factors on outward and inward FDI. This will be done by determination of the major FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) factors‚ evaluation of the role of institutional factors and investigation of institutional factors impact on inward and outward FDI flows. Several sources (Aswathappa‚ 2012; Jensen‚ 2012) have identified FDI as an investment‚ made by a company based in one country
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incentive policy widespread around the globe in the 1990s due to the belief that attracting multinational firms would create more job opportunities and eventually better off for the whole economy. There have been some evidences that foreign direct investment (FDI) benefited developed countries’ economy. Recently‚ the Australian government has proposed a new policy that would give fairly large incentives to foreign direct investors. However whether the FDI would benefit Australia’s automobile industry
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Project title: Spillover effects of FDI: Do domestic manufacturing firms benefit from foreign direct investment in Vietnam. Introduction Back in the 1990s‚ foreign direct investment (FDI) became the largest source of external finance for many developing countries. In Vietnam in particular‚ the Law on Foreign Investment promulgated in the 1986 Congress to attract FDI was considered the first step of the doi moi (renovation) reform. The cumulative FDI increased from 28 projects of total US$ 140
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Short-Term Digital Marketing Plan for The City Of London Investment Trust PLC Jack McCartney Student ID: 33299226 BA (Hons) Marketing Digital & Interactive Marketing Short-Term Digital Marketing Plan for FTSE 250 Company – Individual Assignment Neil Richardson Word Count: 2‚320 Date Submitted: 17/12/2012 Executive Summary This report has been commissioned to provide The City of London Investment Trust with strategic recommendations on how to plan their short-term digital growth
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Case study 1 Better Fitness‚ Inc. (BFI)‚ manufactures exercise equipment at its plant in Freeport‚ Long Island. It recently designed two universal weight machines for the home exercise market. Both machines use BFI-patented technology that provides the user with an extremely wide range of motion capability for each type of exercise performed. Until now‚ such capabilities have been available only on expensive weight machines used primarily by physical therapists. At a recent trade show‚ demonstrations
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service and capital etc. have begun to span the geological border of each country and been widely circulated in the world under the promotion of the globalization. Especially the capital internationalization whose main form is international direct investment is the most frequent. The capital internationalization includes two dimensional contents: on one hand‚ it’s an international of investor structure; on the other hand‚ it’s also an international of enterprise organization structure‚ including the
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References: * Aaker‚ David A.‚ and Robert Jacobson‚ (1987)‚ The Role of Risk in Explaining Differences in Profitability‚ Academy of Management Journal‚ 30(2)‚ 277-296. * Bank Investment Consultant‚ (2006)‚ Characterizing Risk‚ Bank Investment Consultant‚ 36-37 * Barnes‚ Leo‚ (1977)‚ Long Lead vs * Bhargava‚ Vivek and D. K. Malhotra‚ (2006)‚ Do Price-Earnings Ratios Drive Stock Values?‚ Journal Of Portfolio Management‚ 33(1)‚ 86-92 * Bird‚ R * Blume‚ Marshall
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converse would be true if the intrinsic value is less than the stock price. The stock might be a good sell. 3. A satisfactory investment is one that offers an expected return‚ from the combination of current income and capital gains‚ that is commensurate with its perceived exposure to risk. The three steps in security analysis should enable investors to identify satisfactory investment s. First‚ economic analysis assesses the general state of the economy and its potential effects on security returns. Industry
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Group Assignment (Company Valuation Assignment) Company: TRAPHACO JOINT-STOCK CO (Ticker on HCMC stock exchange: TRA) Submission Date: Week 10‚ 26 April 2013 [Syndicate (Group) Assignment – minimum 3/maximum 5 students per syndicate] For this assignment you are required to use publicly available information to analyse a publicly listed company and prepare a report which provides an assessment of the company’s current position and future prospects‚ and which incorporates
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