Belarus, 19 May 2022

Dr. Ziva Rozen-Bakher’s Academic Blog on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and International Trade: Opportunities versus Risks

Dr. Ziva Rozen-Bakher - Researcher in International Business with a focus on Risks

In this blog, I focus each time on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and International Trade in a certain country or territory in terms of how Location Factors (Political, Economic, Technological, Ecological, Legal and Cultural) and Entry Modes (e.g. M&As, Export and Greenfield) impact the attractiveness - or vice versa - the risks of FDI and International Trade in the specific country or territory. Still, keep in mind that each risk may lead to an opportunity for resolving problems via suitable FDI and International Trade, while each opportunity for FDI and International Trade may involve risks.

Political Risks: Regime Transformation, Political Instability, Wars, Conflicts, Geopolitical Conflicts, Sanctions, Global Terror, Regional Crises, and Global Crises.

Economic Risks: Economic Instability, Restrictions on FDI and International Trade, Impact of FDI on Labour Markets; International Trade Agreements and Trade Wars

Strategic Risks: Strategic Risks in M&As, Integration in M&As, Cultural Distance, Cultural Openness, Labour Unions in M&As

Belarus - Foreign Direct Investment and International Trade

Key Figures of FDI and International Trade

Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$): $1,391.60 (Millions) (2020)

Foreign direct investment, net outflows (BoP, current US$): $77.00 (Millions) (2020)

Exports of goods and services (BoP, current US$): $49,257.43638 (Millions) (2021)

Imports of goods and services (BoP, current US$): $45,487.00109 (Millions) (2021)

Source: World Bank

Information and Data on FDI and International Trade

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Belarus - Investing - International Trade Portal International Trade Portal (lloydsbanktrade.com)

Foreign trade figures of Belarus - Economic and Political Overview - International Trade Portal International Trade Portal (lloydsbanktrade.com)

FactSheet_2021_new (unctad.org)

Belarus - United States Department of State

Macro Data

Belarus | Data (worldbank.org)

Republic of Belarus and the IMF

General Information and Political Information

Belarus country profile - BBC News

Belarus - The World Factbook (cia.gov)

Research Papers and Research Books

Foreign Trade of the Republic of Belarus in the International Business Environment (sciendo.com)

Conceptualizing and achieving energy security: The case of Belarus - ScienceDirect

Belarus under Lukashenka | Adaptive Authoritarianism | Matthew Frear | (taylorfrancis.com)

EconPapers: The Economic Determinants of Post-Soviet Belarus: The Role of FDI in Economic Development (repec.org)

EconPapers: NATIONAL ECONOMY ATTRACTIVENESS FOR FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT: EVIDENCE FROM BELARUS AND EUROPEAN REGION COUNTRIES (repec.org)

Foreign direct investment in transition economies: the regional structure and peculiarities of development in Belarus | Studies of the Industrial Geography Commission of the Polish Geographical Society (up.krakow.pl)

A network game analysis of strategic interactions in the international trade of Russian natural gas through Ukraine and Belarus - ScienceDirect

On One Co-Integration Issue of Trade Links of Azerbaijan, Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan | Orudzhev | Statistics and Economics (rea.ru)

EconPapers: Effects of Trade Wars on Belarus (repec.org)

Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia: Trade Creation and Trade Diversion in Central Asia in 2010-2011 by Roman Mogilevskii :: SSRN

The impact of trade preferences removal: Evidence from the Belarus Generalized System of Preferences withdrawal - Gnutzmann - - The World Economy - Wiley Online Library

Impact of the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia on Regional Trade | SpringerLink

What Belarus Produces, Exports, and Imports: Analyzing Trade in Value Added | Emerald Insight

Realization of Industry Export Potential in the Republic of Belarus: Trends, Factors, Perspectives | Blagush | Science & Technique (bntu.by)

Digitalization of Trade as a Factor of Development of Export Potential of the Republic of Belarus | Yurova | Digital Transformation (giac.by)

Full article: Anti-regime action and geopolitical polarization: understanding protester dispositions in Belarus (tandfonline.com)

Full article: Attitudes towards democracy and the market in Belarus: what has changed and why it matters (tandfonline.com)

Current challenges and prospects of wind energy in Belarus - ScienceDirect

Full article: Protest, platforms, and the state in the Belarus crisis (tandfonline.com)

Full article: The Belarus crisis: people, protest, and political dispositions (tandfonline.com)

Belarus’ new political nation? 2020 anti-authoritarian protests as identity building - Aliaksei Kazharski, 2021 (sagepub.com)

Coupling national geo-political economic strategies and the Belt and Road Initiative: The China-Belarus Great Stone Industrial Park - ScienceDirect

Project MUSE - Belarus Uprising: The Making of a Revolution (jhu.edu)

The Union State: a changing relationship between Belarus and Russia | Journal of the Belarusian State University. International Relations (bsu.by)

Public Policy and Politics via Documentaries and in-Depth TV News Programs

Keep in mind that Documentaries and in-Depth TV News programs usually reflect a certain viewpoint. ZRB

Belarus - What has happened since the 2020 elections? | DW Documentary - YouTube

The Battle for Belarus | People and Power - YouTube

Belarus: Undercover in Europe's last dictatorship | Channel 4 News - YouTube

How much longer can the Belarusian president hold on? | Inside Story - YouTube

Important History Events

Why History? History shapes the present and future and even may repeat itself. ZRB

Belarus (degruyter.com)

A History of Belarus: A Non-Literary Essay that Explains the Ethnogenesis of ... - Lubov Bazan - Google Books

Belarus: A Perpetual Borderland - Andrew Savchenko - Google Books

Historical Dictionary of Belarus - Grigory Ioffe, Vitali Silitski, Jr. - Google Books

Other Issues

Issues that may have indirect effects or long-run effects either on opportunities or risks of FDI and International Trade. ZRB

Alcohol control policies and mortality trends in Belarus - Grigoriev - 2020 - Drug and Alcohol Review - Wiley Online Library

Monitoring event-driven dynamics on Twitter: a case study in Belarus | SpringerLink

Breast cancer risk in residents of Belarus exposed to Chernobyl fallout while pregnant or lactating: standardized incidence ratio analysis, 1997 to 2016 | International Journal of Epidemiology | Oxford Academic (oup.com)

15 The finances of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO)

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