Multinationals and Foreign Investment in Economic Development

✍ Scribed by Edward M. Graham

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 248
• Series: International Economic Association
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume examines the economics of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries. Some chapters are theoretical in nature, others empirical, and still others are largely policy-oriented. Topics covered include whether FDI makes an autonomous contribution to growth in these nations and whether or not ''spillovers'' are generated by this investments. Also covered are effects of policy intervention by governments on FDI flows and whether non-economic factors (e.g. cultural factors) might figure as determinants of location of FDI.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
The International Economic Association......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 13
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms......Page 14
1 Introduction: Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries – Where Do We Now Stand?......Page 16
2 On Intra-firm Trade and Multinationals: Offshoring and Foreign Outsourcing in Manufacturing......Page 41
3 Foreign Direct Investment, Externalities and Economic Growth in Developing Countries: Some Empirical Explorations......Page 57
4 Technological Spillovers and Export-platform FDI......Page 100
5 Foreign Direct Investment in South Asia: Impact on Economic Growth and Local Investment......Page 109
6 The Internationalization of Korean Firms: Strategic Interaction and Tariff-jumping when Quality Matters......Page 134
7 Foreign Direct Investment, Trade and Regional Integration in Mercosur......Page 160
8 The Effect of Exchange-rate Uncertainty on Foreign Direct Investment in the United Kingdom......Page 178
9 The Role of Foreign Direct Investment and Natural Resources in Economic Development......Page 194
10 Multinationals and Foreign Direct Investment in India and China......Page 213
11 Portuguese Investment in Brazil – the Challenges of an Iberian Logic......Page 227