Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a 

category of cross-border investment in which an

investor resident in one economy establishes a lasting interest in and a significant
degree of influence over an enterprise resident in another economy.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a vehicle for gaining entry into

growth markets. Companies might decide the best approach is to
acquire products and technologies already in the target market, or to
secure distribution and retail channels for their existing products, or
they might decide to launch greenfield production to serve the local or
regional markets, or some combination.
The term economic sovereignty, which means the power of national governments to make
decisions independently of those made by other governments, it is also often used by
politicians and social activists in discussions of “economic patriotism”
Global governance or world governance is a product of neo-liberal paradigm shift in international political and
economic relations. It is a tool to identify solutions to problems created by neo-liberal globalization.

Social media refers to the m

Social media refers to the means of interactions among people in which they create, share,
and/or exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks.
The General Agreement on Trade in Service (GATS) is the first
multilateral agreement covering trade in service which was negotiated
during the last round of multilateral trade negotiations, called the
Uruguay Round, and came into force in 1995. It provides a frame work
of rules governing services trade, establishes a mechanism for countries
to make commitments to liberalize trade in services and provides a
mechanism for resolving disputes between
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Economic Integration

Economic Integration can be described as a process and a means by which a group of countries strives
to increase their level of welfare. It is an arrangement between different regions that often includes the
reduction or elimination of trade barriers, and the coordination of monetary and fiscal policies.
Financial market integration: Integration of financial markets is a process of unifying markets and
enabling convergence of riskadjusted returns on the assets of similar maturity across the markets. The
process of integration is facilitated by an unimpeded access of participants to various market segments

Transnational activism
Transnational activism can be defined as the mobilization of collective claims by actors located
in more than one country and/or addressing more than one national government and/or
international governmental organization or another international act
Global Corporation
Global Corporation is a large company that operates in many different countries.
Global corporations in a sense are multinational corporations having many units
operating, in overseas countries. 
MARKET INTEGRATION
Market integration provides a number of social benefits, including broadening the range of
financial services and investment opportunities available to consumers and increasing
competition in the provision of those services. In addition, integrated financial markets act as
private risk-sharing mechanisms that facilitate the smoothing of both economic and financial
cycles in domestic economies.

 COMPLETE ECONOMIC INTEGRATION

Complete Economic Integration is the final stage of economic integration in which member
states completely forego independence of both monetary and fiscal policies. States that
participate in complete economic integration have no control of economic policy including
economic trade rules.
NEO-FUNCTIONALISM

Neo-functionalism focuses on the supranational institutions of the EU which the main driving forces

of integration are interest group activity at the European and national levels, political party activity,

and the role of governments and supranational institutions.

 NEOLIBERALISM

Neoliberalism is the intensification of the influence and

dominance of capital. It is the elevation of capitalism as a mode of
production into an ethic, a set of political imperatives, and a
cultural logic
UNITED NATION

The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization aiming to maintain international peace and
security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a
center for harmonizing the actions of nations. It is the world's largest, and most familiar, international
organization.

The United Nations

ECONOMIC UNION
An economic union is an agreement between two or more nations to allow goods, services,
money and workers to move over borders freely. The countries may also coordinate social
and financial policies to support this common market.