- Foreign Direct Investment
Imagine you are in charge of development for a developing country
and were approached by a multinational corporation interested in locating in
your country.
Identify some of the benefits and some of the costs to the host
country from allowing a multinational corporation to locate in a country with a
developing economy. Discuss with your classmates if developmental
assistance from world developmental agencies, such as the World Bank or the
United Nations, would be preferable to private investment.
Reference: Chapter 17, section 17.5: Help From The Private Sector:
Multinationals.
Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts and
respond to at least two of them. In your reply, discuss how the concerns listed
in their posts regarding private foreign investment could be alleviated through
aide from world development agencies.
- Economies in Transition
The movement in the direction of a market-based system with freely
determined prices, competition, profits, private ownership, and other features
of capitalism is not simple. Discuss some of the challenges associated
with an economy transitioning from socialism to capitalism.
Reference: Chapter 20, section 20.1: World Economic Systems, and
section 20.2: Transition to a Market System.
Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts.
Respond to at least two of your peers by discussing the benefits and the costs
of privatization of an economy. Pose questions that may assist your peers
in extending their thinking.
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