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Growing Capacity, Inc.: World Investment Report focuses on global value chains
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Thursday, June 27, 2013. World Investment Report focuses on global value chains. UNCTAD has just ( on June 26, 2013) published its annual World Investment Report. This year on the subject Global Value Chains: Investment and Trade for Development. Below I cite text selectively from the Key Messages section at the beginning of the report, interspersed with my own commentary from the point of view of Growing Capacity, Inc. ( in bold. Continuing a steady upward trend. What was the impact of FDI on GDP growth?
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Growing Capacity, Inc.: What do you think?
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Saturday, April 5, 2014. What do you think? There are plenty of (my) opinions in the posts below. But what are your ideas on global development? Look through historical and recent posts and see if you agree with what I have said there. You can respond by appending a brief comment to the post. You are also welcome to send me a think piece - a paragraph or a page - for me to publish on the blog. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What do you think? Indonesia's GDP and FDI success story. Multilateral Frame...
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Growing Capacity, Inc.: Five dangers the internet poses to a sustainable world
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Thursday, August 15, 2013. Five dangers the internet poses to a sustainable world. It's time to slay the sacred cow that the internet is a force only for good. This article was published in The Guardian on Friday August 9th, 2013. It represents the opinion of the author and is published on the Growing Capacity Blog unchanged by permission of the author.]. In recent months the world has been consumed by the tit for tat internet spying allegations between the US and China. There are four dangers, besides s...
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Growing Capacity, Inc.: Toward a multilateral framework for investment
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Friday, August 30, 2013. Toward a multilateral framework for investment. The essay below is published as part of the continuing discussion on the feasibility and desirability of a multilateral framework for investment. Nicolle Graugnard, ‘Toward a multilateral framework for investment’ Columbia FDI Perspectives, No. 103, September 2, 2013. Reprinted with permission from the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment (www.vcc.columbia.edu). Toward a multilateral framework for investment.
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Growing Capacity, Inc.: An argument against a multilateral framework for investment
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Friday, August 23, 2013. An argument against a multilateral framework for investment. 8220;Axel Berger, ‘The futile debate over a multilateral framework for investment,’ Columbia FDI Perspectives, No. 102, August 26, 2012, is reprinted with kind permission from the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment ( www.vcc.columbia.edu. The futile debate over a multilateral framework for investment. Which decreases the need for a formal treaty. Furthermore, an MFI may not necessarily be t...
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Growing Capacity, Inc.: Transforming life through music in Hong Kong
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013. Transforming life through music in Hong Kong. Article by Ken Davies in China Daily, Hong Kong edition on November 22, 2013. The Greeks were right — children need to be educated in music so they can learn to live in harmony with others. This principle is starting to be applied here in Hong Kong. The international fame of El Sistema has caused it to be emulated in other countries, especially in the Americas, but also in inner-city areas of Europe, notably by Sistema Scotland, who...
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Growing Capacity, Inc.: February 2015
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Article on China's new investment rules. An article by Ken Davies on China's new investment rules, published on 20 February 2015, is on the Chinability blog. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Article on Chinas new investment rules. An argument against a multilateral framework for investment. 8220;Axel Berger, ‘The futile debate over a multilateral framework for investment,’ Columbia FDI Perspectives, No. 102, August 26, 2012, is rep. Indonesia's GDP and FDI success story. 三叶集团ᦁ...
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Growing Capacity, Inc.: World Investment Report 2015
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015. World Investment Report 2015. This year’s UNCTAD World Investment Report, the 25th in the series, aims to inform global debates on the future of the international policy environment for cross-border investment. The World Investment Report tackles the key challenges in international investment protection and promotion, including the right to regulate, investor-state dispute settlement, and investor responsibility. Furthermore, it examines the fiscal treatment of international ...
