ROLE OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN DEVELOPMENT OF THE WORLD ECONOMY AT THE CURRENT STAGE

The multinational companies are playing more and more significant role in development of the world economy, thus surpassing some states of the world in terms of influence. These companies obtain the major part of the world capital and the globally produced goods and services; the network includes millions of workers all over the world; the companies own major part of innovations, patents and developments. The article attempts to examine the main trends of impact of the global economy multinational segment functioning on the world economy processes development and to demonstrate the prospects of the world economy construct changes. Multinational companies’ participation in the international scientific and technical progress is discussed as a separate item, as well as the aspects of networking of the companies’ international activity.

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