Flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) are increasingly being seen as a very important channel for the transfer of … FDI with a variety of policy instruments. This paper provides a selective review of the growing body of literature on the … determinants of FDI and other forms of technology transfer and on their developmental impact, with a view to deriving policy …

Since the mid-twentieth century, the national objective of India and Brazil has been to develop industrial capabilities …. However, over fifty years, India has had much more success in building indigenous capabilities in pharmaceuticals than Brazil …

India has a sizeable telecom equipment manufacturing industry. The industry, which was originally dominated by just one …

This paper has attempted to analyse the effects of deregulation policy, introduced in India during the mid 1980s, on …

spillover hypothesis that 'presence of foreign firms and disembodied technology import in a sector leads to higher productivity … of the technological and production requirement of the sectors. However, once the initial level of productivity gap is …

Countries (NICs), and to a lesser extent by Brazil, Russia, India and China (the BRICS). Instead of focusing on the success … utilise asset-seeking foreign direct investment (FDI) to build up their O advantages. Such asset-augmentation presumes that …

result in substantially increased inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in manufacturing. This paper discusses the policy … parallel discussion of FDI-assisted development in the developing economies. We argue that globalisation has attenuated the … benefits that accrue from EU membership for latecomers, and they must now compete for FDI not just with other European …