Private FDI
A corporation with production activities in more than one country
What is multinational corporations
Financial investments by private individuals, corporations, pension funds, and mutual funds in stocks, bonds, certificates of deposit, and notes issued by private companies and public agencies.
What is portfolio investment
When migrants send home part of their earnings in the form of either cash or goods to support their families
Who is workers' remittances
Terms for the extension of credit that are more favourable to the borrower than those available through standard financial markets.
What is concessional terms
Overseas equity investments by private multinational corporations
What is foreign direct investments
Represents fractional ownership of equity in an organization
What is stock
A Filipino death-row drug convict who was nearly executed by firing squad in Indonesia but got a reprieve due to years of pleadings from Manila
Who is Mary Jane Veloso
The international transfer of public funds in the form of loans or grants, either directly from one government to another (bilateral assistance) or indirectly through the vehicle of a multilateral assistance agency such as the World Bank.
What is foreign aid
Production facilities whose various operations are distributed across a number of countries to take advantage of existing price differentials.
What is global factories
The proportion of a loan that is charged as interest to the borrower, typically expressed as an annual percentage of the loan outstanding.
What is interest rate
Top destination (country) of Filipino emigrants (60.54 percent as of 2018)
What is the United States
Net disbursements of loans or grants made on concessional terms by official agencies, historically by high-income member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
What is Official Development Assistance
Nongovernmental self-regulation by corporations or consortia of corporations (possibly with consumer group representation), to attempt to ensure compliance with acceptable international norms of ethical practice, such as avoidance of cruel, coercive, or deceptive labour practices.
What is corporate social responsibility
The outflow of capital from a country due to negative monetary policies, such as currency depreciation, or carry trades in which low interest rate currencies are exchanged for higher-return assets.
As Philippine President, he enacted the Migrant Workers Act of 1995 (RA 8042) which increased the worker protection and worker-in-distress components of the POEA's mandate.
Who is Fidel V. Ramos
The ability of a country to absorb foreign private or public financial assistance (to use the funds in a productive manner).
What is absorptive capacity
An accounting procedure often used to lower total taxes paid by multinational corporations, in which intracorporate sales and purchases of goods and services are artificially invoiced so that profits accrue to the branch offices located in low-tax countries (tax havens), while offices in high-tax countries show little or no taxable profits.
What is transfer pricing
Measures taken by either the government or the central bank of an economy to regulate the outflow and inflow of foreign capital in the country
What is capital control
Top received of migrants' remittances based on volume (as of 2018)
What is India
Foreign aid in the form of bilateral loans or grants that require the recipient country to use the funds to purchase goods or services from the donor country.
What is tied aid