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    Tutorial 7

    Teaching Week 7
    Foreign direct investment
    Divide the students into the groups of 4-5. Ask them to answer the questions in groups
    1. What are the types of international capital movements?
    Give brief explanations of each of them.
    2. Tell the type of capital movement in each case below:
    a. GM owns 25% shares of JV GM Uzbekistan
    b. Migrants from Uzbekistan living in Russian Federation sent home (to Uzbekistan)
    3.059 billion USD in 2015
    c. Asian Development Bank delivers a technical assistance grant for feasibility study to
    water supply project in Bukhara and Samarkand regions
    d. EGIS (French engineering company) buys 10% shares of the local company called
    VBM engineering in Uzbekistan (no voting power is given to EGIS)
    3. Explain the differences between FDI and portfolio investment. What are the advantages
    and disadvantages of each of them?
    4. What are the modes of entry for FDI? Explain each of them in brief detail.
    5. What are the types of expansion (while doing FDI)? Explain each of them in brief detail.
    6. Explain the graph in detail, explaining the welfare effect of FDI / Capital movement:

    7. List out the host country benefits and costs of FDI.


    In particular, read from open sources about the transfer pricing mechanisms and explain
    how it relates to costs / benefits to host and home country (in brief).
    8. What are the gaps between interests of MNCs and host countries? Do you think if MNCs
    enter into JV with local companies (while entering), this would enable to reduce the gap?
    Discussion of news / articles
    9. Please read the Investment and Labour on
    http://www.globalization101.org/investment-and-labor/. Discuss:
    a. Does the paragraph stipulate that it is the HOME country workers that suffer from
    outgoing FDI, or HOST country workers suffer from incoming FDI?
    10. Please read the Globalization May Increase Inequality on
    http://www.globalization101.org/globalization-may-increase-inequality. Discuss:
    a. How can investments increase inequality?
    b. Whether the gains from growth (as a result of increased FDI to the developing
    countries) overweigh or are undermined by the increase in inequality (if any)?

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