Economic aspects and cultural dimension on USA investments to selected EU member states ; Ekonominiai aspektai ir kultūrinė JAV investicijų dimensija pasirinktose Europos Sąjungos šalyse

Abstract

Nowadays investment plays an especially important role. There is no person knowing about how to save money or invest since he or she was born. It is quite difficult process requiring experience, competences and knowledge. Every investment begins from the simple things. When people invest, companies or even countries can invest too. Investments might be successful or not. Today both people and companies invest to various things, because investment is the main engine in various spheres of life and probably is related to everything that surrounds us. It might be difficult to deal with finances in our everyday life, not to mention the larger and more important investments. There are many factors that are related to costs and investment risks and are needed to know, such as taxes, laws, security of personal property. The most common phenomenon these days are investments in foreign companies. It has a significant impact on economic growth both in investing country and in another country which gets investment. Many people leave their home countries and travel around the world or stay in a particular country in order to earn money. In this way, people do not contribute to the growth of their native countries. Another very popular phenomenon – when people work in their own native country, but in foreign-own enterprises. The reason is that foreign companies invest to foreign countries by creating and developing business, thus using foreign workforce. Such companies exist not only in the biggest European countries, but also in Lithuania. Europe has many various factories and companies, which capital comes even from distant countries. Such investments may be concentrated to money or to money plus infrastructure and these types of investment may affect economic growth either in investing country, or in the country getting the investment.