PS 0500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Digital Divide, Development Business, Neofunctionalism
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Host and home government relations: variety of problems and opportunities, the government of the host state and the mnc have to agree, if they both agree, they both benefit, conflict trade policies, monetary policies, international security, corruption, currency is devalued imports increase in price, want stable facilities that they will be able to profit from, may uses bribes to government officials for favorable mnc policies. Increases transparency in international relations: states can see threats, cheaters and free riders can be identified makes collective goods problems easier to solve, governments can bargain with each other to be mutually beneficial, complex monitoring in international agreements (trade deals, arms control is easier in a transparent world, strengthens identify principle, people"s identities have new avenues of expression . Political interference in markets: free and efficient markets require buyers and sellers to have good info, no world government provides subsidies or regulates prices, market imperfections, monopolies & oligopolies, corruption, political influences, taxation.
