Foreign direct investment (FDI) may play a key role in the global effort to shift towards a low-carbon economy. Multinational enterprises (MNEs) can contribute in several important ways to climate change mitigation, by providing emission-saving technologies, financial resources and managerial...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Business Environment -- Chapter 3: Historical Perspective on Doing Business in Bangladesh -- Chapter 4: Historical Perspective on Doing Business in Sri Lanka -- Chapter 5: Cultural Issues Affecting Business Activity in Bangladesh -- Chapter 6: Cultural...

This paper examines the incidence of foreign control in Canadian non-financial industries. It focuses on changes in the share of assets and revenues under foreign control over a long-run period during which Canada's regulatory climate shifted from being more restrictive to more liberal in its...

Climate-related risks have increased in recent decades, both in terms of the frequency of extreme weather events (physical risk) and implementation of climate-change mitigation policies (transition risk). This paper explores whether multinational firms react to such risks by altering their...