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Among a large number of countries, usually including all countries that are members of a large international organization, such as the WTO. Contrasts with bilateral and plurilateral.
Industry:Economy
An agreement to liberalize rules on international direct investment that was negotiated in the OECD but never completed or adopted because of adverse public reaction to it. Preliminary text of the agreement was leaked to the Internet in April 1997, where many groups opposed it. Negotiations were discontinued in November 1998.
Industry:Economy
Aid provided by a group of countries, or an institution representing a group of countries such as the World Bank, to one or more recipient countries. Contrasts with unilateral aid.
Industry:Economy
A theoretical perspective on the organization of modern states that acknowledges flexible structures of overlapping jurisdictions, both above and below the national government as well as in a lateral relationship to it.
Industry:Economy
A corporation that operates in two or more countries. Since it is headquartered in only one country but has production or marketing facilities in others, it is the result of previous FDI.
Industry:Economy
A firm, usually a corporation, that operates in two or more countries. In practice the term is used interchangeably with multinational corporation.
Industry:Economy
1. The specific factors model diagram, as attributed to Mussa (1974). 2. A diagram for explicating properties of the 2-factor Heckscher-Ohlin Model introduced by Mussa (1979). With factor prices on its axes, zero-profit curves for each sector show the determination of factor prices more directly than the Lerner Diagram, which serves much the same purposes.
Industry:Economy
A pipeline planned to carry natural gas from the Georgian/Turkish and/or Iranian/Turkish border across Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary to Austria. Construction is scheduled to begin 2011 and be completed 2015.
Industry:Economy
