Prudent FDI Policy

European misperceptions of the Ukrainian-Russian conflict are the result of, among others, lacking expert knowledge about Ukraine, in the member states of the EU. The most recent example of continuing misunderstanding is a Western fixation on quality of governance issues, and not on the Ukrainian state’s principal chances of survival. In Ukraine today, a major strategic task is the de-poisoning of the investment climate, especially in the South-Eastern Azov and Black Sea regions. In light of ongoing threats from Russia, Kyiv needs Western-backed guarantees to insure foreign direct investment against political risks, especially in Ukraine’s russophone parts.

The inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) are often seen as one of the factors increasing the economic growth of the country. Therefore, considerable attention is paid to examining of its determinants, of which corporate taxes is often seen as one. However, there is mixed evidence of the relationship between corporate taxes and FDI in the empirical literature. The main aim of our paper is to identify the key determinants of FDI in EU countries based on panel data regression models. Moreover, we focus our attention particularly on effective and statutory corporate tax rates and their impact on FDI. On the one hand, our results suggest that there is no statistically significant effect of corporate taxes on FDI. On the other hand, we find a significant effect of labour costs, openness of the economy, firing costs, GDP per capita and public debt in the country. There is also some evidence of a negative impact of the financial and economic crisis on FDI inflows in the EU.

Atraction for Thai Investments he Government of India, true to its intent and objective of attracting and promoting foreign direct investment (FDI) not just by non-resident entity or person, but offshore entities too, to park their capital in Indian projects and supplement domestic capital, technology and skills, for the much needed accelerated economic growth that their nation of birth needs. It is well known that FDI is preferred to portfolio investment, as in this way the investors can easily get the right towards creating a long lasting bond & interest in the domestic enterprise. FDI Policy Framework In this respect, India has put in place a policy framework on FDI, which is transparent, predictable and easily comprehensible, embodied in the Circular on Consolidated FDI Policy, to keep pace with the regulatory changes, to be in effect of the rapidly chang1ng economic growth circuit in the neighbouring region The varnous entities into which FDI is allowed are a) FDI in an Ind1an Company: Indian companies can issue cap1tal against FDI b) FDI n Venture Capital Fund(VCF); FVCIs are allowed to invest in Indan Venture c) Capital Undertak1ngs (IVCUs) / Venture Capital Funds (VCFs) / other companies. as stated in paragraph 3.1 6 of this Circular |4 India-Thailand India and Thailand have had close religious, cultural and trade links over two millennia.

The paper investigated the characteristics of foreign direct investment( FDI) to Ghana's agriculture by  examining the flow of funds, projects, employment and possible pre-independence legacies in FDI inflows from Ghana's former partners in colonial relationships and the slave trade. Using moving averages, percentages, cross tabulations and chi-squares tests, to data from 1994-2010, the following conclusions were drawn; a) FDI flows, measured by estimated cost of projects remained stable and low for most part of 1994-2010. However, huge jumps were witnessed after 2008, coinciding with Ghana's second time of successful and peaceful transfer of political power to another government; b) Clustering of agricultural projects in Greater Accra Region, c) a strong attraction of large FDI firms for the crops subsector; d) 75% of the FDI projects are SMEs; e) Among European countries, Ghana's former slave and colonial masters, Britain, Netherlands and Denmark contribute most FD...

The paper covers the analysis of the legal regime regulating foreign investment with particular reference to hydropower sector in Nepal. Further, it shall also discourse on the impacts of the existing policies in the inflow of foreign investments in Nepal.