Abstract Mainland China it is already 26 years since carried out the reform to open in 1978, At this period, Mainland China market heads into so-called" the socialism market economy" gradually from the closing economic system, Meanwhile,Mainland China also concentrates on investing the environmental improvement. This research is mainly that discusses new economic area in Shanghai, and with Pu Dong New Zone is the case study.Meanwhile by exploring the investment environment of the ground, to understand the advantage that the situation and Shanghai City of the development invest the environment after working on the economy reform.The end discussion Pu Dong New Zone future development becomes the feasibility and foreground of the international banking center. This research mainly is divided into the new area of whole investment environment in mainland, the investment environment, Pu Dong New Zone in Shanghai investment the environment three faces to to inquire into, hoping to compare macro view of angle to analytical three grounds of changes with environmental investments, and make the initial valuation to Pu Dong New Zone¡¦s industry development, policy condition, the resource development...etc. Pu Dong New Zone is the investment district that the Communist Party of China's authorities intentionally conduct in recent years, it takes the renew economy in the Shanghai City to develop of rebuke harshly the big term, so its position is very important. This research is by inquiring into the industry of the development condition explanation of whole infrastructure in Pu Dong New Zone, each development district region development and investing the programming, Show the industry development of Pu Dong New Zone to regard servicing business as principle through the data, each development districtses are all according to oneself the dissimilarity that develop the characteristic and have to develop, so will have the foreground of development very much in the future; As for the development of the investment environment in Pu Dong New Zone, then with construct" new Shanghai" is lord, hope be building up the international banking center here, promote the industrial upgrading and economic growth, and this is also the initial target. Put forward the suggestion to the development of Pu Dong New Zone finally, In the future Pu Dong New Zone has to overcome the disadvantage in building up the international banking center ; even want the financial system and raise citizen's living standard meanwhile, the profession of dynasty turns, the management method that market turns moves forward, reaching the ideal. Key Words¡Ginvestment environment¡BMainland China¡B Shanghai¡BPu Dong New Zone

This article analyzes and examines Mainland China¡¦s and Vietnam¡¦s investment environment. This investment environment includes politics and law, social economy, investment form, finance, tax, infrastructure, risk assessment . Meanwhile, we describe the difference between CS-SIP and TTEPZ with respect of the comparative analysis of the micro-investment environment. At last, we demonstrate the dominance of Mainland China¡¦s investment environment. Includes: the rapid economic growth, potential market, good infrastructure, the lower risk of investment. The dominance of Vietnam includes: stable political situation, complete protective measures, peaceful social environment.

ABSTRACT On Nov.11, 2001, Taiwan obtained the accession of World Trade Organization and became a formal member of WTO on Jan 1st of 2002. As a member of WTO, Taiwan has equal rights to participate in the setting of global trade rules as well as sharing the benefits of liberalization. In the meantime, Taiwan must fulfill its WTO commitments completely, whether resulting from its bilateral and multilateral negotiations or from its standard WTO obligations. The accession to WTO means to Taiwan a big impact on all aspects of its general economics, people¡¦s everyday living as well as industrial policies. After 35 years of development, Export Processing Zone (EPZ) has emerged from focusing on traditional labor-intensive industry to capital and technical intensive industry then to global logistic type of industry. Facing the impact of WTO, the need to make next transition is becoming even more urgent now. In an effort to upgrade the industry and strengthen the competence of the country, the government has assigned another responsibility on EPZ by expanding its range of function from pure manufacturing to high value-added economics activities like Off-Territory Shipment Center, Logistics Center, Software Design Center, etc. Mainland China obtained its WTO membership same time as Taiwan. They are leveraging their fast economic development and huge market potential to attract foreign and Taiwanese investments. Hence we can not exclude the influence of Mainland China while trying to discuss the WTO impacts on EPZ and how EPZ can face the big change of economic environment. This study has set following three topics: 1. The impact on EPZ as a result of Taiwan¡¦s accession to WTO. 2. What is the outlook of EPZ¡¦s new positioning. 3. Suggestions to the government, EPZ Administrations and Companies inside and outside of EPZ. This study will firstly make a brief review on both WTO and EPZ. Then explore the impacts, as well as the opportunities and threats, of WTO on both the industries in Taiwan and in EPZ. Then we will study the two major directions of EPZ¡¦s new positioning: (1) New developments as a result of new economic relationship between Taiwan and Mainland China, this includes Off-Territory Shipment Center, a base for China¡¦s companies to enter Taiwan, and the ¡§deep processing¡¨ that utilizes the advantage of integrating operations across the Taiwan Strait, and (2) New developments as a result of the expanding of EPZ¡¦s new service function, that includes R&D center, headquarter for off-shore Taiwanese companies, International Trade Companies, center for specific industry cluster and logistic center, etc. Based on the results of this study, we have made suggestions to the government, the EPZ Administration and companies inside and outside EPZ. The suggestions to the Government are: Try to form Free Trade Zone with Asia-Pacific countries and also form a ¡§Greater China Free Trade Zone¡¨ with Mainland China and Hong Kong under the condition that the political disputes are settled. Also to promote business opportunities in the developing countries by utilizing Taiwan¡¦s strengths of manufacturing and technology. Regarding the suggestions to the EPZ Administration and companies inside and outside EPZ, the suggestions are all regarding how EPZ can strengthen their service and improve the investment environment, and how companies are to fully utilize these EPZ improvements. The conclusion of this study shows following four items: 1. The accession of Taiwan to WTO is not only a crisis for EPZ, but also an opportunity. 2. EPZ has built up sound infrastructure and set the direction for its new positioning to face this challenge. 3. Whether the new positioning is fulfilled and new investment poured in will decide if the next phase transition of EPZ is successful or not. 4. EPZ acted as the pilot model for Taiwan¡¦s economic success 35 years ago, we are hoping it acts one more time the same model for Taiwan¡¦s next economic re-form.

Taiwanese small and medium enterprises always hold an important role in leading the Taiwanese economic to develop in globalization, creating many job opportunities in the country as the foundation for the social and political stability. But by the trend of worldwide business merging and expanding enterprises scale, small and medium enterprises in Taiwan have to face challenges of upgrading and changing the type of business. To be able to survive and grow, Taiwanese small and medium enterprises must modify their structure, improve technology, conduct automation, even to invest in less developing countries or lower-wage countries such as China and other countries in the region. Since 1988, Vietnam has become a strongly attracting investment destination to Taiwanese small and medium enterprises. Taiwan always leads in the top 3 investors in fields of number of investment projects as well as total investment capital. So the question is why so many Taiwanese enterprises choose Vietnam as an investing destination but not other countries in the Southeast Asian region? Questions such as what advantages and strengths in the Vietnamese investment environment are, what conveniences that they bring to Taiwan businesses, etc ... has become the most attractive themes in Taiwanese corps. This study used case-studied approach, combining direct observation methods to conduct data collection then analyzed to understand the motivation for investment in Vietnamese, investment state and competitive advantages of Taiwanese small and medium enterprises in Vietnam.

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are playing a key role in the economic development of every country in the world. The fast development and significant contributions of SMEs is one of the most important factors to the outstanding industrial and economic growth in Taiwan for the past fifty years. However, the SMEs in our country are gradually moving abroad and invest in Mainland China or other developing countries due to the drastic changes in the investment environment. Since the economic reform in 1978, due to the changes in the international investment environment, Mainland China has gradually recognized the importance of SMEs to the economic growth and is aggressively encouraging the development of SMEs. Such trend is indeed one of our major concerns. This study uses Historical Comparison Method and SWOT Analysis in an attempt to analyze the situation of cross-straight SMEs under macroscopic and regional investment environment since the late 1990¡¦s till now and the opportunities and threats of SMEs after joining the World Trade Organization (WTO). Meanwhile, the strength, weakness, opportunity, and threat for Taiwanese SMEs to invest in Mainland China is also explored for the authority of Taiwanese SMEs in setting related policy and for the Taiwanese businessmen as a reference. Firstly, in terms of macroscopic investment environment, the performances of both sides across the straight under general environment (including indices of political, legal, investment tariffs, and basic environmental evaluation) and overall economic environment (including indicators such as economic development, import and export trading, and luring of foreign capital, etc.) are better than before. Next, in terms of regional investment environment, the similarity between the places where cross-straight SMEs often gather ¡V Industrial Parks in Taiwan (including Export Zones and Industrial and Science Parks) and Special Economic Zones in Mainland China (including Shenzhen, Zuhai, Xiamen, Shanghai, and Beijin) are in the superiority of the locations and with development potential, similarity in industrial structure, emphasis in investment right protection, and complete basic infrastructure. The differences are in that the Industrial and Science Parks in Taiwan adopt single operating window and efficient in approval, whereas the applications for investment in Special Economics Zones in Mainland China are still approved based on the amount of investment, technology cooperation, or joint-venture between Chinese and foreign companies, foreign proprietary enterprises that require longer period of approval operation. In addition, the tax incentive in Taiwanese Industrial and Science Parks is of functional attribute with very high rewarding threshold and significantly higher cost than the Special Economic Zones in Mainland China. The tax break and grace period for Special Economic Zone in Mainland China is of industry attribute. It¡¦s tax break and grace period is obviously higher than Taiwanese Industrial park. Lastly, summarizing the SWOT Analysis of this study, it is found that the investment environments of the cross-straight SMEs are all facing the difficulty of lacking of talents and shortage of capital as well as facing potential stiff competition after joining WTO. To this end, it is recommended that the government should strengthen the innovation incubator for SMEs, expand the channel of financing for SMEs, and provide accurate investment information. On the manufacturers side, the government should adjust the industrial structure of manufacturers, strengthen the R&D capability, training professional talents, adopt strategic alliances and value employee¡¦s educational training in order to upgrade the international competitiveness of SMEs in our country.

Bakalauro baigiamajame darbe nagrinėjama tiesioginių užsienio investicijų pritraukimo tendencijos Lietuvoje ir Estijoje 2006-2012 metų laikotarpiu, siekiant atskleisti kaimyninių šalių panašumus ir skirtumus. Darbe analizuojama, kodėl vis daugiau šalių įsijungia į konkurencinę kovą siekdamos pritraukti daugiau tiesioginių užsienio investicijų, ir tam pasiekti valstybių naudojami veiksmai. Tokie klausimai, kaip ekonomikos dydis prisideda prie tiesioginių užsienio investicijų atėjimo į šalį, kokią įtaką darbo užmokestis daro užsienio investuotojų apsisprendimui, ar tiesioginės užsienio investicijos priklauso nuo užsienio prekybos apimčių, kaip stipriai mokesčių našta stabdo tiesiogines užsienio investicijas, yra nagrinėjami. Galiausiai, žinant kad Lietuva ir Estija nuo nepriklausomybės atgavimo reformas pradėjo įgyvendinti iš labai panašios pozicijos, darbe buvo siekiama palyginti Lietuvos ir Estijos investicinės aplinkos patrauklumą, bei šalių galimybes pritraukti tiesiogines užsienio investicijas. / In the bachelor‘s thesis is examined foreign direct investment tendencies in Lithuania and Estonia in the period 2006-2012, reveal similarities and differences of the neighbouring countries. The paper examines why more and more countries get involved in a competition to attract more foreign direct investment, and the goverments actions used. Issues such as the size of the economy, foreign trade volumes, impact of wages and tax burden conribute to the foreign direct investment, are examined. Finally, bearing in mind that reforms in Lithuania and Estonia since independance were launched from a very similar position, the paper aims to compare Lithuanian and Estonian investment enviroment and the countries ability to attract foreign direct investment.

The purpose of this thesis is to look at economic and legal aspects of foreign direct investment (hereinafter also referred to as FDI) on the example of Egypt, which is one of the key economic and political players in the Middle East and North Africa. The paper is composed of two parts. First part is dealing with the theoretical aspects of FDI. Chapter one is introductory and explains the nature and role of FDI in global economy. Next two chapters address the important issue of definition of investment and investor. The legal definition of these two terms is usually the key issue in the international documents concerning foreign direct investment. Fourth chapter deals with the bilateral investment treaties, which are so far the most relevant instrument governing the international investment. Chapter five deals with the unsuccessful attempts to establish universal international treaty concerning investment, influence of the Lisbon treaty on given issue and international organizations in the field of international investment. Chapter six concentrates on the issue of investment treatment standards. Seventh chapter investigates the most common causes of investment disputes and eighth chapter suggests possible means of their resolution. Second practical part deals more closely with factual Egyptian...

This diploma theses addresses the issue of investment environment and regional development in the Moravian-Silesian Region. The first chapter describes theoretical inputs, namely competitivness and foreign direct investments. The general factors influencing competitivness are applied on example of the Czech Republic. Second chapter analyse the investment environment in the Region. This concerns namely socio-economic situation, business environment and completed restructuring. Included is also SWOT analysis and resulting recommendations. Third chapter evaluates the current state of investments in the Region and describes two significant development projects. These are namely Danish producer of luxury electrotechnics and South Korean car producer. The text describes the investors, industrial zones they are placed in, process and current status of the investment and overall impact upon the Region.

The Master Thesis deals with the investment environment of the Central European countries, familiarizes the reader with the phenomenon of foreign direct investment, and analyzes the macroeconomic environment in relation to the investment inflow and stock. It characterizes foreign direct investment in the global setting and outlines several internalization theories. Covering a wide range of various macroeconomic indicators that influence the investment favorability, the thesis compares Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia along with relevant concise analyses. Moreover, the foreign direct investment inflows and stocks are addressed and the investment inflow influence on national trade, especially export and import flows and trade ties, is presented.

Název diplomové práce v anglickém jazyce, abstrakt v anglickém jazyce a 3 klíčová slova v anglickém jazyce Title: Legal and Economic Aspects of Foreign Direct Investment with Reference to Taiwan Abstract: The thesis on "Legal and Economic Aspects of Foreign Direct Investment with Reference to Taiwan" consists of two main parts, which are divided into eight chapters. The thesis uses the methods of secondary source analysis, synthesis, and comparison. The thesis is mainly based on domestic and foreign literature, foreign legislation, documents and data of international organizations published on their websites, academic articles, textbooks, and economic studies. The first part of the thesis deals with the general issue of foreign direct investment in four chapters, both from the legal and economic points of view. The thesis introduces the reader to the definitions of investment and investor, the nature and meaning of investment, the standards of treatment of investment, and, last but not least, its legal regulation. This section aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the various aspects of foreign direct investment protection, which will provide a well-rounded insight into the subject. In the second practically oriented part, the thesis analyses foreign direct investment in Taiwan. In particular, it...