A Century of foreign investment in the Third World
Michael J. Twomey.
Bok Engelsk 2000 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | London ; New York : : Routledge, , 2000.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (267 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Book Cover; Title; Contents; Index of tables; Index of graphs; List of abbreviations and currencies; Introduction; Outline of the book; Acknowledgments; Conceptualizing and measuring foreign investment; Dunning's ~eclectic model~ of FDI; The Product Cycle and the Investment Development Path; The obsolescing bargain; Free Standing Companies; Expatriate investment; The Third World and colonies; Colonial policy and FDI; Measuring and comparing the size of FDI; Capital and the capital output ratio; Further measurement issues; Final comments; Notes; The major source countries; FDI in services. - Foreign Portfolio Equity Investment British investment; Trends in British direct investment; French overseas investment; Issues in the measurement of French colonial investment; The United States; Belgium; The Netherlands; Japan; Concluding comments; Notes; Africa; Algeria; Morocco; Tunisia; Cte d'Ivoire; Liberia; Zaire; British Tropical Africa; Ghana; Nigeria; Kenya; Uganda; North and South Rhodesia; Zimbabwe; Zambia; Asia and the Middle East; China; India; Indo-China; Indonesia; Korea; Malaysia; Philippines; Taiwan; Thailand; The Middle East and petroleum; Turkey; Notes. - Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada Brazil; Canada; Chile; Colombia; Cuba; Honduras; Jamaica; Mexico; Peru; Venezuela; Notes; General results; Estimates of the foreign ownership of domestic capital; The relative importance of expatriate investment; Econometric explanation of pre-World War I FDI; The relative size of railroads; Railroad financing; The Investment Development Path; The ~Big Push~ and domestic growth; Source country determinants of FDI growth; Policies in host countries; Location specific advantages in host countries; Privatization and FDI; Future trends; Overall summary. - Notes Bibliography; Index. - The late twentieth century has witnessed a dramatic upsurge in foreign direct investment in the Third World. Based upon thorough statistical analysis, the book presents exhaustive case-studies of foreign investment policy in 'metropolitan' countries and of the experiences of 'host' countries throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America. With a wide geographical and historical focus, it also makes an important contribution to current debates on dependency theory.
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| ISBN | 0415233607
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