Abstract: 'Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is generally considered as a driving force in the integration of developing countries into the globalization process that characterizes the world economy. Although most FDI is concentrated in developed countries, developing countries have made the biggest gains in the 1990s in terms of flows of inward FDI: from US$ 34 billion in 1990 (17 per cent of global inflows) to US$ 149 billion in 1997 (37 per cent of global inflows). However, a small number of de more...
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Abstract: 'Foreign direct investment (FDI) and other forms of association to MNEs operations, such as subcontracting, original equipment manufacturing (OEM), participation in global value chains (GVCs), global manufacturing networks (GMNs), joint ventures (JVs) and various kinds of alliances have been the movers of technological progress, economic growth and success in international markets for many developing countries.
Success stories are widely known and will be highlighted in this work. more...
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'Climate change offers humanity no second chances. An agreement struck at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in December 2009 could pave the way for a post-2012 climate regime that staves off catastrophic climate change. Delay or failure will certainly multiply the costs of responding to its negative impacts – costs that are already being borne by poor people.
Rich countries must reduce greenhouse gas emissions first and fastest. But whilst deep emissions reductions in rich countries a more...
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Social network websites are becoming a global phenomenon. Millions now go online to engage in social networks. According to Wikipedia, there are some 1.5 billion members worldwide. Where is this growth taking place? What does this mean for web2fordev? And what role do mobile phones play?
This first article is part of a series of three. It looks at the growth of social network websites worldwide, its implications and differences from former online network exchanges, and looks into the web2ford more...
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Climate Change is here. It has a human face. This report details the silent crisis occurring around the world today as a result of a global climate change. It is a comprehensive account of the key impacts of climate change on human society. Long regarded as a distant, environmental or future problem, climate change is already today a major constraint on all human efforts. I has been creeping up on the world for years, doing its deadly work in the dark by aggravating a host of other major problem more...
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Many academic and popular writers have warned that the internet could be another form of cultural imperialism used by corporate-led western powers to force feed western values and worldviews to the rest of the world, similar to how Western education was imposed on Africa after colonisation. These ongoing arguments about one-way flows of information that shape African minds in Western moulds reinforce desires for dominance and promote an attitude of victimization. Others perceive internet as a pa more...
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Why is it almost impossible to find rehydration salts or malaria tablets in remote rural communities yet one is able to drink a bottle of coca-cola in those same villages?
An article by Simon Berry on the The Guardian Katine Project website asks these questions and points to a somewhat obvious solution: using the distributional networks of big business to supply much needed essentials to poor developing communities. With Coca-cola agreeing to trial the idea in Tanzania it seems Social Product D more...
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