Investing

Investing in Development

By - Moran, Theodore H.,
Floor - Floor 1
Published - Transaction Books, New Brunswick (USA), ©1986
ISBN 10 - 088738644X
ISBN 13 - 9780887386442
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Developing countries
Shelf No - 17
Call Number - 332.6730 MOR
Physical Description - vi, 194 pages ; 24 cm.
Book Information
"Excellent and exceptionally timely." --Foreign AffairsThis volume surveys current views in the debate about the impact of foreign direct investment on Third World development--on growth, employment, exports, technology, and distribution of income. It examines whether the efforts of less developed countries to attract and control multinational corporations have constituted a serious "distortion" of trade that threatens jobs in the home nations. It provides new studies of foreign investment in agriculture and in the least developed states. It looks at the threat of transmitting environmental pollution. And it analyzes the link between international companies and the "umbrella" of World Bank cofinancing as a mechanism to reduce risk. Finally, it attempts to estimate how much of the "gap" in commercial bank lending might plausibly be filled by direct corporate investment over the next decade.

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