Since the early 1990s, foreign direct investment has assumed a leading role in the provision of telecommunications services in developing countries. Host countries, having perceived telecommunications services as the backbone of a modern service economy, have deregulated their telecommunications...

The life sciences sector (and biotechnology in particular) has emerged as a prospective area, and attracted a lot of attention recently. Multinational companies in the life sciences seek to explore new markets, and, on the other side, governments strive to develop the life sciences sector...

2008 was marked by major changes in the world economy: the international integration based on money and capital markets fell into a deep crisis. This article examines how foreign direct investment - together with international trade - can replace those money and capital markets in the role of...

Bulgaria's and Romania's transition from central planning to market economy has been long and difficult. The lateness of their transformation made their entry into the European Union possible only three years later (in 2007) than the other transition economy candidates for membership. The...

This article reviews the main characteristics of both inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Baltic Sea region. Among other questions, it explores the extent to which intra-regional flows have gained in importance over recent years. It highlights that both inflows and outflows...

This article looks at the fallout of the Ukrainian/Crimean crisis for the foreign economic relations of the Russian Federation, including outward foreign direct investment (FDI). It notes the multiplicity of interests such policies have to satisfy. One of them is the protection of Russian...

In December 2014, the Russian Federation plunged into a crisis again, the fourth one in a quarter of a century. Crises came in pairs, just like earthquakes and aftershocks: 1992-1996, followed by 1998; then 2009, followed by the current one. The new crisis will affect the economic prospects of...

This presentation examines changes in global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows and stocks in the past quarter of century (1991–2016) for countries and territories for which data are available. It also asks how those changes affect our way of explaining FDI and other activities of...

In Central and Eastern Europe, outward foreign direct investment was not yet until recently a prominent factor in the region's reintegration into the world economy, especially when compared to trade liberalization in the early 1990s or inward foreign direct investment in the late 1990s. In the...

The global number of regulatory changes less favourable to foreign direct investment increased significantly in 2004 and 2005. But before declaring an end to the era of liberalism and the advent of a new era of protectionism, or perhaps of strategic interventionism, one should add a word of...