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A century of foreign investment in the Third World /
Annotation 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 �...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2000.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in international business and the world economy ;
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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 InvestmentBritish 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; Chi.