OECD Reviews of Foreign Direct Investment
Subtitle: Czech Republic 2001
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Series: OECD Reviews of Foreign Direct Investment
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9789264188693
Subjects: Finance and Investment
Description: OECD's 2001 review of the Czech Republic's foreign direct investment policies and programmes. It finds that the Czech Republic entered the transition process with a strong industrial heritage and an extensive, but obsolete infrastructure showing the effects of over 40 years of central planning. Throughout the nineties, the extensive reforms undertaken have helped reintegrate the Czech Republic into the global economy through measures such as privatisation and the creation of a favourable and liberal investment climate which has led to a surge in FDI in recent years in particular.  The Czech Republic became a Member of the OECD in 1995. The Czech government is committed to addressing the need for further industrial restructuring and to completing the privatisation process which has played a key role in the transformation of the Czech economy and in attracting FDI. With this process virtually completed, the Czech Republic now has the challenge of sustaining FDI inflows in the future through further greenfield projects and reinvestments and improving backward linkages to domestic companies. This review charts the development of FDI in the Czech Republic and evaluates its role in the transition process, assessing the degree of openness of the economy to foreign direct investors.
Table of contents: title: Overview; title: Chapter 1; title: Foreign Direct Investment in the Czech Republic; title: Czech Direct Investment Abroad; title: Statistical Data and Methodology; title: Chapter 2; title: General Legal Framework; title: Investment Promotion and Incentives in the Czech Republic; title: Bilateral Investment Protection, Double Taxation, and Other International Agreements; title: Chapter 3. Sectoral Measures and Restrictions; title: Finanical Sectors; title: Non-Financial Sectors; title: Chapter 4. Privatisation; title: Chapter 5; title: Monopolies and Concessions; title: Power Industry; title: Gas Industry; title: Postal Services and Telecommunications; title: Transport Services; title: Agriculture; title: Mining; title: Refineries; title: Government Procurement; title: Annex 1. The Czech Republic's Current Position under the code of Liberalisation of Capital Movements and under the National Treatement Instrument; title: Annex 2. Investment Protection, Double Taxation and Other Agreements with the Czech Republic; title: Annex 3. Foreign Direct Investment Statistics