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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450584703321

Autore

Paus Eva

Titolo

Foreign investment, development, and globalization [[electronic resource] ] : can Costa Rica become Ireland? / / Eva Paus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

ISBN

1-281-36423-1

9786611364236

1-4039-7881-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 250 p.)

Disciplina

332.67/3/097286

Soggetti

Investments, Foreign - Ireland

International business enterprises - Ireland

Investments, Foreign - Costa Rica

International business enterprises - Costa Rica

High technology industries

Globalization

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-237) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book engages the question, hotly debated among theorists and policymakers alike, of how a developing country's pursuit of foreign direct investment (FDI) affects its development prospects in a globalized world. Can small latecomers to economic development use high-tech FDI to rapidly expand indigenous capabilities, thus shortcutting stages of the industrialization process? What conditions, economic and non-economic, must be met for this strategy to succeed? Using the cases of Ireland and Costa Rica, the author shows how the dynamics of the FDI-development nexus have changed over time, rendering problematic Costa Rica's attempt, and those of other latecomers, to replicate the Celtic Tiger's success story.