Foreign Direct Investment: Six Country Case Studies (New Horizons in International Business series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1843764679 ISBN 13: 9781843764670

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

This book consists of detailed case studies of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China, India, Ireland, Malaysia, Mexico and Sub-Saharan Africa, providing a critical review of the determinants and impact of FDI on growth and development, employment, technology transfer and trade. The expert contributors examine a range of controversial issues including the contribution of the relatively large volume of FDI in China to its growth, whether India should fully liberalise its FDI regime and the impact of Mexico's membership of NAFTA on the volume of FDI it has attracted. Malaysia's economic policies, which appear to have attracted relatively large volumes of FDI but failed to generate the hoped for transmission of technology and skills are also questioned, along with the role of corruption in limiting the contribution of FDI to achieving social goals in Sub-Saharan Africa. The impressive record of the Irish Republic in attracting and harnessing FDI to development objectives is examined closely and provides a detailed analysis of policies likely to promote efficient utilisation of FDI. practitioners in the areas of international economics and international business - foreign direct investment and multinational enterprises in particular - and development economics.

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Edited by Yingqi Annie Wei, Lecturer in International Business and V.N. Balasubramanyam, Professor of Development Economics, Department of Economics, Lancaster University, UK

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1843764679
• ISBN 13: 9781843764670
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Wei Yingqi A., Balasubramanyam V. N.