Beyond sweatshops [[electronic resource] ] : foreign direct investment and globalization in developing countries / / Theodore H. Moran |
Autore | Moran Theodore H. <1943-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
Disciplina | 331.1/09172/4 |
Soggetto topico |
Investments, Foreign, and employment - Developing countries
Foreign trade and employment - OECD countries Manufacturing industries - Developing countries - Employees Investments, Foreign - Moral and ethical aspects - Developing countries Investments, Foreign - Government policy - Developing countries Economic development |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8157-9862-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Foreign direct investment in low-wage, low-skill activities -- Improving the treatment of workers at the bottom by providing a path up from below -- Core standards for the treatment of workers around the world -- WTO-based enforcement of core labor standards -- Voluntary mechanisms for improving the treatment of workers -- Using foreign investment to shape host-country development -- The impact of outward investment on the home economy of the investor. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455858403321 |
Moran Theodore H. <1943-> | ||
Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Beyond sweatshops [[electronic resource] ] : foreign direct investment and globalization in developing countries / / Theodore H. Moran |
Autore | Moran Theodore H. <1943-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
Disciplina | 331.1/09172/4 |
Soggetto topico |
Investments, Foreign, and employment - Developing countries
Foreign trade and employment - OECD countries Manufacturing industries - Developing countries - Employees Investments, Foreign - Moral and ethical aspects - Developing countries Investments, Foreign - Government policy - Developing countries Economic development |
ISBN | 0-8157-9862-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Foreign direct investment in low-wage, low-skill activities -- Improving the treatment of workers at the bottom by providing a path up from below -- Core standards for the treatment of workers around the world -- WTO-based enforcement of core labor standards -- Voluntary mechanisms for improving the treatment of workers -- Using foreign investment to shape host-country development -- The impact of outward investment on the home economy of the investor. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780230703321 |
Moran Theodore H. <1943-> | ||
Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Beyond sweatshops : foreign direct investment and globalization in developing countries / / Theodore H. Moran |
Autore | Moran Theodore H. <1943-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
Disciplina | 331.1/09172/4 |
Soggetto topico |
Investments, Foreign, and employment - Developing countries
Foreign trade and employment - OECD countries Manufacturing industries - Developing countries - Employees Investments, Foreign - Moral and ethical aspects - Developing countries Investments, Foreign - Government policy - Developing countries Economic development |
ISBN | 0-8157-9862-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Foreign direct investment in low-wage, low-skill activities -- Improving the treatment of workers at the bottom by providing a path up from below -- Core standards for the treatment of workers around the world -- WTO-based enforcement of core labor standards -- Voluntary mechanisms for improving the treatment of workers -- Using foreign investment to shape host-country development -- The impact of outward investment on the home economy of the investor. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811666903321 |
Moran Theodore H. <1943-> | ||
Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Competitiveness strategy in developing countries / / edited by Ganeshan Wignaraja |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
Disciplina |
338.4767091724
338.6048091724 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WignarajaGaneshan <1962-> |
Collana | Routledge studies in development economics |
Soggetto topico |
Industrial policy - Developing countries
Industrial productivity - Developing countries Investments, Foreign - Government policy - Developing countries Technological innovations - Economic aspects - Developing countries Competition - Developing countries International trade Competition, International |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-203-77427-2
1-134-58545-4 1-280-07034-X 0-585-45735-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Editor's note; Introduction, concepts and benchmarking; Introduction; Competitiveness analysis and strategy; Benchmarking competitiveness: a first look at the MECI; Supply-side issues and policies for competitiveness; Science, technology and innovation policy; Industrial clusters and business development services for small and medium-sized enterprises; Government policies towards foreign direct investment; Financial sector policies for enterprise development; Incentive policies for competitiveness
Privatisation, regulation and domestic competition policyInternational trade policies; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456047803321 |
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Competitiveness strategy in developing countries / / edited by Ganeshan Wignaraja |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
Disciplina |
338.4767091724
338.6048091724 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WignarajaGaneshan <1962-> |
Collana | Routledge studies in development economics |
Soggetto topico |
Industrial policy - Developing countries
Industrial productivity - Developing countries Investments, Foreign - Government policy - Developing countries Technological innovations - Economic aspects - Developing countries Competition - Developing countries International trade Competition, International |
ISBN |
1-134-58544-6
0-203-77427-2 1-134-58545-4 1-280-07034-X 0-585-45735-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Editor's note; Introduction, concepts and benchmarking; Introduction; Competitiveness analysis and strategy; Benchmarking competitiveness: a first look at the MECI; Supply-side issues and policies for competitiveness; Science, technology and innovation policy; Industrial clusters and business development services for small and medium-sized enterprises; Government policies towards foreign direct investment; Financial sector policies for enterprise development; Incentive policies for competitiveness
Privatisation, regulation and domestic competition policyInternational trade policies; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780110403321 |
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Competitiveness strategy in developing countries / / edited by Ganeshan Wignaraja |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
Disciplina |
338.4767091724
338.6048091724 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WignarajaGaneshan <1962-> |
Collana | Routledge studies in development economics |
Soggetto topico |
Industrial policy - Developing countries
Industrial productivity - Developing countries Investments, Foreign - Government policy - Developing countries Technological innovations - Economic aspects - Developing countries Competition - Developing countries International trade Competition, International |
ISBN |
1-134-58544-6
0-203-77427-2 1-134-58545-4 1-280-07034-X 0-585-45735-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Editor's note; Introduction, concepts and benchmarking; Introduction; Competitiveness analysis and strategy; Benchmarking competitiveness: a first look at the MECI; Supply-side issues and policies for competitiveness; Science, technology and innovation policy; Industrial clusters and business development services for small and medium-sized enterprises; Government policies towards foreign direct investment; Financial sector policies for enterprise development; Incentive policies for competitiveness
Privatisation, regulation and domestic competition policyInternational trade policies; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815102903321 |
London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Foreign direct investment and development [[electronic resource] ] : launching a second generation of policy research : avoiding the mistakes of the first, reevaluating policies for developed and developing countries / / Theodore H. Moran |
Autore | Moran Theodore H. <1943-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (183 p.) |
Disciplina | 332.67/32 |
Soggetto topico |
Investments, Foreign - Government policy
Investments, Foreign - Government policy - Developing countries |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-88132-624-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover ""; ""Contents""; ""Preface ""; ""Ch 1 Introduction ""; ""Ch 2 FDI in Extractive Industries ""; ""The Resource Curse and Dutch Disease""; ""Combating Corruption and Ensuring Transparent Revenue Flows ""; ""Promoting FDI, Ensuring Contract Stability, and Assisting Host Tax Collection ""; ""Advancing Environmental Standards and Sustainable Development Goals ""; ""Ch 3 FDI in Infrastructure ""; ""Distinctive Public Policy Concerns""; ""Blurring of Commercial and Political Risk and the Need to Reform Investor-State Arbitration""; ""Mediation, Work-Outs, and Avoiding Moral Hazard""
""Ch 4 FDI in Manufacturing and Assembly """"Impact on Developing-Country Hosts: Early Evidence""; ""Search for Spillovers and Externalities""; ""Painting a New Portrait of Manufacturing Multinationals: Level of Wages, Kinds of Activities, and Types of Jobs""; ""Implications for Developing-Country Policy: The Real versus False Debate about Using Manufacturing FDI for Development""; ""Ch 5 A First Look at the Impact of FDI in Services""; ""New Investigations""; ""Ch 6 Reconsidering the Debate on FDI Crowding Out or Crowding In Domestic Investment ""; ""Aggregate Analysis"" ""Three Prominent Case Studies""""Conclusions""; ""Ch 7 FDI, Host-Country Growth, and Structural Transformation ""; ""Fundamentals in the Debate""; ""Discovery that What You Export Matters""; ""Magnitude of Benefits from FDI and the Question of Incentives for Foreign Manufacturing Investors: Observations from Costa Rica""; ""Contribution of Trade and FDI Liberalization""; ""Trade-and-FDI Modeling: Dynamic Effects, Extensive plus Intensive Margins, New Varieties of Intermediates, and Continuous Real-Time Technology Upgrades"" ""Ch 8 Globalization of Industry via FDI: Consequences for Developed-Country Home Economies""""Rekindling an Old Debate about US MNCs and US Economic Interests ""; ""Outward FDI and Abandonment of the Home Economy?""; ""Outward FDI, Runaway Plants, Lost Capital?""; ""Outward FDI, Strategic Trade Theory, and the Capture of Rents Abroad? ""; ""How Is FDI Transforming the Chinese Economy?""; ""Maintaining the Home Economy as a Competitive Base for MNC Investment""; ""Ch 9 Policy Implications ""; ""Developing Countries""; ""Developed Countries""; ""Multilateral Financial Institutions"" ""Other Organizations and Groups""""Ch 10 Lessons and Conclusions: The Second-Generation Research Agenda ""; ""References ""; ""Abbreviations ""; ""Index "" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456903303321 |
Moran Theodore H. <1943-> | ||
Washington, D.C., : Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Foreign direct investment and development [[electronic resource] ] : launching a second generation of policy research : avoiding the mistakes of the first, reevaluating policies for developed and developing countries / / Theodore H. Moran |
Autore | Moran Theodore H. <1943-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (183 p.) |
Disciplina | 332.67/32 |
Soggetto topico |
Investments, Foreign - Government policy
Investments, Foreign - Government policy - Developing countries |
ISBN | 0-88132-624-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover ""; ""Contents""; ""Preface ""; ""Ch 1 Introduction ""; ""Ch 2 FDI in Extractive Industries ""; ""The Resource Curse and Dutch Disease""; ""Combating Corruption and Ensuring Transparent Revenue Flows ""; ""Promoting FDI, Ensuring Contract Stability, and Assisting Host Tax Collection ""; ""Advancing Environmental Standards and Sustainable Development Goals ""; ""Ch 3 FDI in Infrastructure ""; ""Distinctive Public Policy Concerns""; ""Blurring of Commercial and Political Risk and the Need to Reform Investor-State Arbitration""; ""Mediation, Work-Outs, and Avoiding Moral Hazard""
""Ch 4 FDI in Manufacturing and Assembly """"Impact on Developing-Country Hosts: Early Evidence""; ""Search for Spillovers and Externalities""; ""Painting a New Portrait of Manufacturing Multinationals: Level of Wages, Kinds of Activities, and Types of Jobs""; ""Implications for Developing-Country Policy: The Real versus False Debate about Using Manufacturing FDI for Development""; ""Ch 5 A First Look at the Impact of FDI in Services""; ""New Investigations""; ""Ch 6 Reconsidering the Debate on FDI Crowding Out or Crowding In Domestic Investment ""; ""Aggregate Analysis"" ""Three Prominent Case Studies""""Conclusions""; ""Ch 7 FDI, Host-Country Growth, and Structural Transformation ""; ""Fundamentals in the Debate""; ""Discovery that What You Export Matters""; ""Magnitude of Benefits from FDI and the Question of Incentives for Foreign Manufacturing Investors: Observations from Costa Rica""; ""Contribution of Trade and FDI Liberalization""; ""Trade-and-FDI Modeling: Dynamic Effects, Extensive plus Intensive Margins, New Varieties of Intermediates, and Continuous Real-Time Technology Upgrades"" ""Ch 8 Globalization of Industry via FDI: Consequences for Developed-Country Home Economies""""Rekindling an Old Debate about US MNCs and US Economic Interests ""; ""Outward FDI and Abandonment of the Home Economy?""; ""Outward FDI, Runaway Plants, Lost Capital?""; ""Outward FDI, Strategic Trade Theory, and the Capture of Rents Abroad? ""; ""How Is FDI Transforming the Chinese Economy?""; ""Maintaining the Home Economy as a Competitive Base for MNC Investment""; ""Ch 9 Policy Implications ""; ""Developing Countries""; ""Developed Countries""; ""Multilateral Financial Institutions"" ""Other Organizations and Groups""""Ch 10 Lessons and Conclusions: The Second-Generation Research Agenda ""; ""References ""; ""Abbreviations ""; ""Index "" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781283203321 |
Moran Theodore H. <1943-> | ||
Washington, D.C., : Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Foreign direct investment and development : launching a second generation of policy research : avoiding the mistakes of the first, reevaluating policies for developed and developing countries / / Theodore H. Moran |
Autore | Moran Theodore H. <1943-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (183 p.) |
Disciplina | 332.67/32 |
Soggetto topico |
Investments, Foreign - Government policy
Investments, Foreign - Government policy - Developing countries |
ISBN | 0-88132-624-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover ""; ""Contents""; ""Preface ""; ""Ch 1 Introduction ""; ""Ch 2 FDI in Extractive Industries ""; ""The Resource Curse and Dutch Disease""; ""Combating Corruption and Ensuring Transparent Revenue Flows ""; ""Promoting FDI, Ensuring Contract Stability, and Assisting Host Tax Collection ""; ""Advancing Environmental Standards and Sustainable Development Goals ""; ""Ch 3 FDI in Infrastructure ""; ""Distinctive Public Policy Concerns""; ""Blurring of Commercial and Political Risk and the Need to Reform Investor-State Arbitration""; ""Mediation, Work-Outs, and Avoiding Moral Hazard""
""Ch 4 FDI in Manufacturing and Assembly """"Impact on Developing-Country Hosts: Early Evidence""; ""Search for Spillovers and Externalities""; ""Painting a New Portrait of Manufacturing Multinationals: Level of Wages, Kinds of Activities, and Types of Jobs""; ""Implications for Developing-Country Policy: The Real versus False Debate about Using Manufacturing FDI for Development""; ""Ch 5 A First Look at the Impact of FDI in Services""; ""New Investigations""; ""Ch 6 Reconsidering the Debate on FDI Crowding Out or Crowding In Domestic Investment ""; ""Aggregate Analysis"" ""Three Prominent Case Studies""""Conclusions""; ""Ch 7 FDI, Host-Country Growth, and Structural Transformation ""; ""Fundamentals in the Debate""; ""Discovery that What You Export Matters""; ""Magnitude of Benefits from FDI and the Question of Incentives for Foreign Manufacturing Investors: Observations from Costa Rica""; ""Contribution of Trade and FDI Liberalization""; ""Trade-and-FDI Modeling: Dynamic Effects, Extensive plus Intensive Margins, New Varieties of Intermediates, and Continuous Real-Time Technology Upgrades"" ""Ch 8 Globalization of Industry via FDI: Consequences for Developed-Country Home Economies""""Rekindling an Old Debate about US MNCs and US Economic Interests ""; ""Outward FDI and Abandonment of the Home Economy?""; ""Outward FDI, Runaway Plants, Lost Capital?""; ""Outward FDI, Strategic Trade Theory, and the Capture of Rents Abroad? ""; ""How Is FDI Transforming the Chinese Economy?""; ""Maintaining the Home Economy as a Competitive Base for MNC Investment""; ""Ch 9 Policy Implications ""; ""Developing Countries""; ""Developed Countries""; ""Multilateral Financial Institutions"" ""Other Organizations and Groups""""Ch 10 Lessons and Conclusions: The Second-Generation Research Agenda ""; ""References ""; ""Abbreviations ""; ""Index "" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819481003321 |
Moran Theodore H. <1943-> | ||
Washington, D.C., : Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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International investment for sustainable development : balancing rights and rewards |
Autore | Zarsky Lyuba |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Routledge, Nov. 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.9/27/091724 |
Soggetto topico |
Investments, Foreign - Government policy - Developing countries
Sustainable development - Government policy - Developing countries |
ISBN |
1-136-56273-7
1-136-56274-5 1-280-47612-5 1-84977-176-6 9786610476121 600-00-0019-7 1-4175-8313-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
International Investment for Sustainable Development Balancing Rights and Rewards; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables, Figures and Boxes; About the Authors; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Introduction: Balancing Rights and Rewards in Investment Rules; Part 1: Links Between Foreign Direct Investment, Development and Sustainability; Chapter 1 No Miracle Drug: Foreign Direct Investment and Sustainable Development; Chapter 2 FDI and the Environment: What Empirical Evidence Does and Does Not Tell Us?
Chapter 3 Governing Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policies and Practices ReconsideredChapter 4 Sustainable Development and Foreign Direct Investment: The Emerging Paradigm in Asia; Part 2: The Governance of International Investment; Chapter 5 All Roads Lead Out of Rome: Divergent Paths of Dispute Settlement in Bilateral Investment Treaties; Chapter 6 The Road to Hell? Investor Protections in NAFTA's Chapter 11; Chapter 7 The Environment and the Principle of Non-discrimination in Investment Regimes: International and Domestic Institutions Chapter 8 Corporate Governance and Global Disclosure: Let the Sun Shine InIndex |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783458703321 |
Zarsky Lyuba | ||
New York, : Routledge, Nov. 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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