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There are over 37,000 transnational corporations in the world with over 170,000 foreign affiliates. This report presents for the first time ever data on the largest 100 non-financial transnational...

The World Investment Report series provides the latest data and analysis foreign direct investment (FDI) and other activities of transnational corporations, as well as the policies to regulate them at...

This Report analyses the phenomenal growth of world foreign direct investment in the 1980s. In particular, it focuses on the Triad - the United States, the EC and Japan - which accounted for four...

This publication provides the reader with tables on investment financing, net transfer of resources and balance of payments of Latin America and the Caribbean. It includes changes in the financial...

A six-part analysis of the major issues which arise from private participation in public-sector port services and port facilities in Latin America and the Caribbean. It suggests economic, legal and...

In the Caribbean, Europe seized a region and implanted a population there which it controlled to serve European interests. The aim of this study is to comprehend how the role played by the Caribbean...

This timely study examines the role of TNCs as engines of international growth. Its analysis shows ample cause for optimism and it is hoped that the lessons learned from the analysis will assist in...

This study discusses in depth the direction, requirements and policy guidelines that must be followed in order for Latin American countries to modify the industrialization pattern which has been the...

Unemployment, a subject high on the agenda of governments, is the special focus of this year's Report. It analyzes the wide-range of effects of the activities of transnational corporations (TNCs) on...

This fifth edition of the World Investment Report (WIR) documents the continuing growth of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries. It analyzes the impact of FDI on the competitiveness...