A century of foreign investment in the third world / / Michael J. Twomey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779934203321
• Autore: Twomey Michael J.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000
• ISBN: 1-134-56921-1; 1-280-40212-1; 0-203-18594-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies in international business and the world economy ; ; 20
• Disciplina: 332.67/3/091724
• Soggetti: Investments, Foreign - Developing countries - History - 20th century; Investments
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-245) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Investment British 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; China; India; Indo-China; Indonesia; Korea; Malaysia; Philippines; Taiwan; Thailand; The Middle East and petroleum; Turkey; Notes; Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada Brazil; Canada; Chile; Colombia; Cuba; Honduras; Jamaica; Mexico; Peru; Venezuela; Notes; ; General results; Estimates of the foreign ownership of domestic capital; The relative importance of expatriate investment; Econometric explanation of pre-World War I FDI; The relative size of railroads; Railroad financing; The Investment Development Path; The ~Big Push~ and domestic growth; Source country determinants of FDI growth; Policies in host countries; Location specific advantages in host countries; Privatization and FDI; Future trends; Overall summary; Notes Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 'host' countries throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America. With a wide geographical and historical focus, it also makes an important contribution to current debates on dependency theory.