This paper aims to assess the prospects and impediments to developing the Philippine's tourism and retirement services for the Japanese market. The impediments identified are in the areas of air access, peace and order situation, marketing and promotions and market information as well as human...

Narrowing the digital divide is an important goal of any ICT policy. It must promote on one hand a high degree of accessibility to the "infostructure" by promoting competition, interconnection and convergence in the ICT sector. On the other hand, policies must also seek to increase the...

Narrowing the digital divide is an important goal of any ICT policy. It must promote on one hand a high degree of accessibility to the “infostructure” by promoting competition, interconnection and convergence in the ICT sector. On the other hand, policies must also seek to increase the...

This paper aims to assess the prospects and impediments to developing the Philippine’s tourism and retirement services for the Japanese market. The impediments identified are in the areas of air access, peace and order situation, marketing and promotions and market information as well as human...

A recent influx of Asian investment is changing the character of the Canadian oil and gas industry and reviving old debates on the regulation of foreign investment. Particular attention has been placed on investment by state-owned enterprises (SOEs), driven in part by public suspicion about...

The United States and China are at a turning point in their investment relationship. China’s previous investments in the US were predominantly in government securities, while other holdings were negligible. Recently, the accumulation of treasury securities has slowed and direct...

The dramatic rise of Chinese direct investment into the European Union has sparked a debate about the control that China may be seeking to take over European economies. Quite naturally these concerns have led to repeated calls that action be taken to slow down, if not to halt entirely, this...