This monograph is the first book-length study of foreign direct investment in Southeast Asia during both the late colonial period and in the contemporary period. It examines the leading Southeast Asian countries receiving foreign investment this century. The arrival of today's Asian investors, from
Foreign Direct Investment in Three Regions of the South at the End of the Twentieth Century
β Scribed by Susan M. McMillan (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 193
- Series
- International Political Economy Series
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Theoretical Background and Framework for Analysis....Pages 1-22
The Bargaining Context and FDI in Thailand and the Philippines....Pages 23-53
The Bargaining Context and FDI in Ghana and CΓ΄te dβIvoire....Pages 54-85
The Bargaining Context and FDI in Costa Rica and Guatemala....Pages 86-115
The Question of Causality: Vector Autoregression Analysis....Pages 116-141
Conclusions....Pages 142-149
Back Matter....Pages 150-179
β¦ Subjects
International Economics; Political Economy
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