Cover -- Will Africa Feed China? -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. China and Mozambique: Fiction and Fact -- 2. "Begging with a Golden Bowl": Food Security and Commercial Farms -- 3. Seeds of Change: Foreign Agribusiness...

Intro -- European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920-1945 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. Introductory Essays -- Chapter 1. Business, Political Risk, and Historians in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 2. Multinationals and Dictatorship -- Part II....

Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Multinational Corporations and Governments -- 2. Democracy and the Political Risk of Expropriation for International Business -- 3. Institutional Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in the Developing World -- 4. Partisan...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Maps, Tables, and Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction and Synopsis -- I. Institutions -- 1. Evolution of China's FDI Regulatory Framework -- 2. International Perspectives -- II. Investments -- 3. Principal Modes of FDI in China -- 4. Trends...

Key Features:Written in a simple and accessible manner for both economists and non-economists alikeCovers a wide range of contemporary economic policy issues encompassing monetary, trade, financial and related issues.

Key Features:It has a series of chapters on the European experience, and how they might apply to new regional initiatives in East AsiaIt includes an extensive documentation and analysis of East Asian integration proposals and analyzes their respective economic and political meritsSome chapters...

A product of the Framework V research project, this book addresses one of the key problems facing the EU today: Why is the 'new' EU so much poorer than the 'old', and how will EU enlargement help to solve the problem? Focusing on the productivity problems underlying the East-West gap, it looks...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Assessing Emerging Markets: Country Competitiveness and Industrial Environment -- 2. Facing Regulatory Environments in Emerging Markets: Shifts of Inbound FDI Policies -- 3. Dealing with Emerging Market Governments: Relationship Building and Development -- 4....

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Chinese Magnet and the Pacific Distancesb 1784-1844 -- Alaska Commercial Gateway or Dead End? -- Hawaii Sugar and Strategy -- The Southwest Pacific Illusion Overcomes Reality -- China I Four Hundred Million Customers -- China II The...

Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Tax Holidays to Attract Foreign Direct Investment -- Introduction -- The First Experiment: Eliminating Tax Holidays -- Estimating the Costs of Incentives -- The Pressures for New Tax Holidays -- The Second Experiment: Discretionary...