Motives and drivers for companies to invest abroad

Some invest abroad for financial motives.

Asian corporations have led the field in investing abroad.

This watch list is also shared with Bhutanese diplomatic missions abroad.

Right now, companies get tax breaks for moving jobs and profits overseas.

Regional and global players What drives companies to invest abroad?

Also, the Integrated Industrial Capital Allowance (IICA) allows companies to claim capital allowances for approved expenditure on plant and equipment used in overseas subsidiaries.

Some SMEs follow TNCs as their supplier firms in going abroad.

The late 1990s saw a surge in overseas acquisitions by Indian enterprises.

In fact, intra firm exports (from parent firms to affiliates) account for about 30 per cent of total exports and of manufactured exports of United States parent firms, as well as an equal share of total exports in the case of Japanese controlled firms.

Push factors relate to economic environments in the home country as well as corporate strategies that encourage firms to go abroad.

Assistance will also be provided in the context of restructuring and privatization of state enterprises.

Indian enterprises have been investing abroad for a long time, but it is only in recent years that Indian OFDI has become more notable.

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Other supportive measures include streamlining OFDI approval procedures and the conditions governing equity ownership of affiliates abroad.

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While American economists, politicians, and business leaders have for years sought to sell their model of management abroad, many companies elsewhere have not been buying it.

In particular, the Thai Exim Bank and the Board of Investment have been providing facilities (e.g. information, outward investment missions) to help Thai firms venture abroad.

Subsidiaries of Shell and Eni paid the Nigerian government for the block.

The Government of Thailand has been encouraging and supporting OFDI by Thai companies.

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It also indicated the increasing preference of leading SINTNCs to grow through acquisitions rather than new subsidiaries abroad.

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IAS 27 Consolidated Financial Statements and Accounting for Investments in Subsidiaries

The Government apos s assistance is the responsibility of the Overseas Development Administration (ODA), part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Panellists debated the impact of incentives on the decision by transnational corporations to move services abroad.

Some studies have shown that the offshoring firms gained more than the recipient countries.

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First, the country's limited domestic market is a very significant push factor in propelling Singapore enterprises to expand their markets abroad.

Table 2. Cumulative OFDI approvals by Indian enterprises, 1975 2000

Some two thirds of SINTNCs in the survey agreed that OFDI had increased their companies' competitive advantages.

The negative growth was also attributed to repayments of intra company loans by foreign subsidiaries and or reduction in the equity of foreign subsidiaries controlled by Singaporean TNCs.

The relaxation of exchange controls and the significant liberalization of OFDI policies in the 1990s played an important role in encouraging Indian enterprises to invest abroad.

In addition to participating directly in financing investments, IDC helps companies identify investment opportunities abroad.

Data for 1990 1995 refer to direct equity investments (D2), which are direct investment (D1) plus the reserves of the overseas subsidiaries and associates attributable to those companies.

Many Chinese, Indian and Russian companies are investing abroad to access strategic assets and natural resources.

The Singapore Government and Singaporean companies, both large and SMEs, have a keen interest investing abroad.

Table 3. Overseas M As by Indian enterprises, 2000 2003

Table 6. OFDI stock, by firm sizes, as at 31 March 2001

Outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) by Singaporean companies has a long history.

To describe the nature and trends of OFDI by indigenous Singaporean enterprises

Indian firms, including SMEs, also faced competition from abroad as a result of globalization.

There are several reasons for the difference between SMEs' OFDI behaviour and that of large enterprises.

These instruments include tax exemption on income remitted into the country by Malaysian companies investing overseas, the provision of investment guarantees and investment promotion missions abroad.

What are the main obstacles to internationalization through OFDI, and how can they be removed? Are there any differences between OFDI by large companies and SMEs?