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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960714903321

Autore

Paus Eva

Titolo

Foreign Investment, Development, and Globalization : Can Costa Rica Become Ireland? / / by E. Paus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005

ISBN

9786611364236

9781281364234

1281364231

9781403978813

1403978816

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 250 p.)

Disciplina

332.67/3/097286

Soggetti

Political science

International economic relations

Economic policy

Development economics

International relations

Globalization

Political Science

International Political Economy'

Economic Policy

Development Economics

International Relations

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.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures and Graphs -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Foreign Direct Investment in the Global Age: New Opportunities for Development? -- 2 High-Tech FDI-Led Growth in Small Latecomers: An Analytical Framework -- 3 The Rise of the Celtic Tiger -- 4 The Development of Knowledge-Based Assets in Ireland -- 5 From Coffee to Computers: High-Tech FDI in Costa Rica -- 6 The Tico Tiger That Hasn't… -- 7



Lessons from Ireland and Costa Rica -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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.