Compare the costs and benefits of investing in an industrialized economy to the cost and benefits of investing in a developing economy from the standpoint of a Multinational Enterprises.

Before the 1980s, the only widely used renewable electricity technology was hydropower. Hydropower is still the most significant source of renewable energy, producing 20 percent of the world's electricity and 10 percent of that of the United States. The 1973 oil crisis awoke the country to its vulnerability through dependence on foreign oil. Subsequent changes in federal policy spurred the development of renewable technologies other than hydro. In 1978, Congress passed the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA), which …showed first 75 words of 637 total…

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