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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459880203321

Titolo

Rethinking foreign investment for sustainable development : lessons for Latin America / / edited by Kevin P. Gallagher, Daniel Chudnovsky ; foreword by José Antonio Ocampo [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2009

ISBN

1-283-37739-X

9786613377395

1-84331-324-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvii, 291 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Anthem Studies in Development and Globalization

Disciplina

338.98/07

Soggetti

Sustainable development - Latin America

Investments, Foreign - Latin America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

FDI and sustainable development in the Americas / Kevin P. Gallagher, Daniel Chudnovsky and Roberto Porzecanski -- Is foreign investment always good for development? / Manuel R. Agosin -- Islands of possibility : MNCs and economic development in Brazil / Celio Hiratuka -- Foreign investment : the polarization of the Mexican economy / Enrique Dussel Peters -- A missed opportunity : foreign investment and sustainable development in Argentina / Daniel Chudnovsky and Andrés López -- Foreign investment and economic development in Costa Rica : the unrealized potential / José Cordero and Eva Paus -- Investment rules and sustainable development : preliminary lessons from the Uruguayan pulp mills case / Martina Chidiak -- Foreigners in the forests : saviors or invaders? / Nicola Borregarrd, Annie Dufey and Lucy Winchester -- Bucking the trend : the political economy of natural resources in three Andean countries / Leonardo Stanley -- Beyond pollution haloes : the environmental effects of FDI in the pulp and paper and petrochemicals sectors in Brazil / Luciana Togeiro de Almeida and Sucila dos Santos Rocha -- Missing links, dashed hopes : FDI spillovers and sustainable industrial development in Mexico's silicon valley / Lyuba Zarsky and Kevin Gallagher.



Sommario/riassunto

Consisting of country case studies and comparative analyses from Latin American and US based political economists, this volume addresses the shortcomings of foreign investment for development, and sets out the challenges facing policy makers in this field.