This contribution explores the role of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in growth led economic development. We examine factors which are explanatory to the absorption of FDI into the domestic economy, particularly we focus upon the importance of Human Capital as a vector for absorption. This...

The Asian style of regional integration may be seen as a 'quasi-common economy' that eschews a formal linkup in political or monetary terms, but manages to generate similar results by strong physical integration and distributed chains of production and service delivery. This note proposes the...