--Define Foreign Direct Investments\n--Functions of Banks\n--Its Impact on the society
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Definition of FDI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_direct_investment\n\nFunction of Banks in FDI:\nThe same as in national business investments - helping companies raise capital, managing tax issues, managing capital transactions, etc.\n\nImpact on Society:\nImpact of FDI recipient is it generates employment for locals, income and corporate taxes for the local government (where relevant), access to skills/technology/knowledge from abroad
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A Commercial bank issues loans and conducts personal wealth management sometimes. Depending on the laws of different countries, you may only be able to deposit money to a commercial bank.\n\nA Commerical bank profits mostly from the interest differences and service charges.\n\nNon-bank financial institutions are typically investment banks and funds. Investment banks are agents that conducts stock offering sponsorship, debt offering sponsorship, merger and acquision, financial advising, and etc. Funds include venture capital funds, which invests in the equities of early stage companies, growth fund, which invests after venture capitalists, financial funds, which invests in the equities of pre-IPO firms, and other funds such as pension funds, insurace funds, and mutual funds which invest in stocks, bonds, and government securities.\n\nInvesetment banks profits from fees they charge and the underwriting spreads.\n\nFunds profits from captial gains, dividents, and debt interest.
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I Googled   Iceland+investments   and many pages of info/sites popped up.  Give it a try and select the info you feel you need.\n   Good luck.
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What developing countries need is honest investment.  The Western world has often exploited these countries for vital resources, such as oil or gold.  If companies and governments were to honestly give money to public works projects and infrastructure development, then these countries would become economically sounder.  These countries also need education; the workers in these countries don't have enough education to effectively plan and participate in a modern economy.
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Economic pressure by foriegn investors will force governments to reduce terrorism as much as possible. Investors do not want the risks associated with unstable culture and government. Money is the strongest force on earth. And economics will eventually overcome other pressures. Foriegn direct investment benefits host countries by increasing jobs, generating spin-off industries, and taxes. Some countries are a fraid tolet too much money out of the country so they impose barter systems or trade quotas. This means that the money supply stays in the country and the foriegn investor takes goods/services in exchange for monetary profit. All these things will tend to decrease the desire for terrorism if the money generated gets into the hands of the people. Once people own properrty and worldly goods, they have more to loose through terrorism and thus the support will decrease.
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Globalization is the term used to describe the changes in societies and the world economy that result from dramatically increased international trade and cultural exchange. It describes the increase of trade and investing due to the falling of barriers and the interdependence of countries. In specifically economic contexts, the term refers almost exclusively to the effects of trade, particularly trade liberalization or "free trade" (however, see "meanings" below). More broadly, the term refers to the overall integration, and resulting increase in interdependence, among global actors (be they political, economic, or otherwise).\n\n \nA picture taken in Dubai International Airport, in the United Arab Emirates showing some of the characteristics of globalization. Here, the corporation McDonalds is marketing their "McArabia" meal, consisting of grilled kofta.From 1910 to 1950, a series of political and economic upheavals dramatically reduced the volume and importance of international trade. After World War II, international trade dramatically expanded, fostered by international economic institutions and rebuilding programs. From the 1970s, the effects of this trade became increasingly visible in terms of benefits and disruptive effects.\n\nIt is useful to distinguish economic, political, and cultural aspects of globalization, although all three aspects are closely intertwined. The other key aspect of globalization is changes in technology, particularly in transport and communications, which it is claimed are creating a global village
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A plan or course of action, as of a government, political party, or business, intended to influence and determine decisions, actions, and other matters: American foreign policy; the company's personnel policy.
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http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/money/investor-bill/investor.htm
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www.crnindia.com\nIt tells of the indian stock market, and trends of other world markets. There are also meanings and definitions at a page called 'technical terms' - http://www.crnindia.com/technicalterm.html . \ngo to the site to know more. i liked the site, went some years back and now daily.
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"The financial sector mobilizes savings and allocates\ncredit across space and time. It provides not only payment services, but more importantly products which enable firms and households to cope with economic uncertainties by hedging, pooling, sharing, and pricing risks. An efficient financial sector reduces the cost and risk of producing and trading goods and services and thus makes an important contribution to raising standards of living."\n\nSo there - in short - if we didn't have one - we would have to work in real money (ie no loans) which could prevent us (or businesses) from investing in projects until the money was saved...\n\nAlso the whole insurance market wouldn't exist which could have devastating consequences for households and businesses.
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there is no direct relation but it is an investment option and if one is lot lucrative then the investor moves to the other so they are related one goes down the other goes up and vise versa
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I haven't come across that specific term before but I expect it is the net of inward investment less outward investment.\nI'm not sure if or how it might equal net exports.
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In most countries when you sell an investment, you have to pay taxes on the profits immediately, even if you sold the investment to reinvest in something else.\n\nTo avoid this inconvenience banks and other investment firms invented the "fund of funds". The manager of this type of fund determines his own strategy of arbitrage and reinvestment within a number of mutual funds. For the buyer of the fund of funds the advantage is that his reinvested money did not leave the fund of funds, and he doesn't have to pay taxes.\n\nThe advantage for the bank is that the fund family used by the manager is often that of the bank, which means that the bank earns twice the manager fee, once on each fund.  \n\nThe details depend on the country and its tax rules.\n\nBeing a fund of funds is one of the investment strategies used by hedge funds as it permits arbitrage between stocks, bonds, commodities according to the model the manager uses\nbut without him being encumbered by the burden of having to choose individual investments.
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I'm no expert but I did a degree in Business and have read a lot of international development literature...\n\nFirst I would ask if financial wealth is the important thing - and if so, when is a country seen as wealthy? If you look at GDP this doesn't show the distribution of wealth very well.\n\nMany richer countries have progressed up the ladder from mainly primary to secondary to tertiary to mainly service jobs. Now in the UK for example, the banking area is well known and a lot of money comes out of this service industry, whereas before many people were employed in coal mining or manufacturing.\n\nIn other countries they may rely more on agriculture and mining and use their land in this way. What I would say is that it's probably a long road between relying mainly on land for your income and relying on knowledge services for your income. Many rich countries including England, France, and the USA progressed through the different stages by exploting human labour of other people (slavery, and colonisation for example), but now want to deny countries such as China their desire to attack human rights in the name of creating wealth.    \n\nIf I was a small country, I'd find my biggest asset, make the most of it and try to become self-sufficient. I would work first on infrastructure, primary health, primary education, stopping internal conflict, and increasing awareness of diseases if I was susceptible to that. I would look at building long term diplomatic relations with neighbouring states, and make decisions about who I want to ally with strategically.\n\nThis could have been a one sentence answer but I felt like writing. Good luck!
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1\n\nDiversification \n\n A risk-management technique that mixes a wide variety of investments within a portfolio. The rationale behind this technique contends that a portfolio of different kinds of investments will, on average, yield higher returns and pose a lower risk than any individual investment found within the portfolio. \n\nDiversification strives to smooth out unsystematic risk events in a portfolio so that the positive performance of some investments will neutralize the negative performance of others. Therefore, the benefits of diversification will hold only if the securities in the portfolio are not perfectly correlated.\n\n\n \n  \n Studies and mathematical models have shown that maintaining a well-diversified portfolio of 25 to 30 stocks will yield the most cost-effective amount of risk reduction. Investing in more securities will still yield further diversification benefits, albeit at a drastically smaller rate.\n\nFurther diversification benefits can be gained by investing in foreign securities because they tend be less closely correlated to domestic investments. For example, an economic downturn in the U.S. economy may not affect Japan's economy in the same way. Therefore, having Japanese investments would allow an investor to have a small cushion of protection against losses due to an American economic downturn.\n\nMost non-institutional investors have a limited investment budget, and may find it difficult to create an adequately diversified portfolio. This fact alone can explain why mutual funds have been increasing in popularity. Buying shares in a mutual fund can provide investors with an inexpensive source of diversification.\n \n\n2\n\nEnglish as a Global Language\nDavid Crystal\nCambridge University Press 1997 \nA book review by Danny Yee © 1997 http://dannyreviews.com/\nCrystal begins English as a Global Language by asking what it means for a language to be global, and what the advantages and disadvantages of having a global language are. In three chapters he then traces the rise of English to that status. The first surveys the extent of its use around the world and briefly outlines the history of its spread. The second examines some nineteenth century ideas about the place of English in the world and the foundations for its success laid by the British Empire and the Industrial Revolution. The third describes the cultural legacy that underpins the present dominance of English — its use in diplomacy and international communications, in the media (Hollywood, popular music, books), in education, and on the Internet. The final chapter looks at the future of English as a global language, focusing on debates about its status within the United States and the possibility of its fragmentation into regional dialects (Crystal suggests these might end up coexisting with some form of "World Standard Spoken English"). \nWith just 150 pages to cover such a broad topic, superficiality is hardly avoidable. (The maps could easily have been improved on, however: most are unexciting political maps with no information an ordinary atlas wouldn't have.) Those with a reasonable background in modern history and general politics will find nothing substantially new in English as a Global Language. Many of the details may be unfamiliar, however, and it is instructive to have them all pulled together. Crystal is, in any event, writing for the broadest possible popular audience — and he has succeeded in producing an accessible and enticing treatment of his subject. \n\nhttp://dannyreviews.com/h/English_Global_Language.html\n\n3\n\nYahoo Answers\n\n4\n\nSlang necessarily involves deviation from standard language, and tends to be very popular among adolescents. To one degree or another, however, it is used in all sectors of society. Although slang does not necessarily involve neologisms (some slang expressions, such as quid, are very old), it often involves the creation of new linguistic forms or the creative a
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to  open a placement  consulatancy     you  should  have  good  contact  with corporate  world . \ninvestments   depend on   level of your  form ..   you have to make a  firm  and   get registerd  with  service  tax  department
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Diplomacy/Influence - a small nation state may be influenced to ally with and then become an integral part of the larger civilization due to the advantages - benefitting from medical advances (etc).