Chapter 1 China and inward foreign investment -- chapter 2 China{u2019}s approach toward foreign investment -- chapter 3 The economic impact of foreign companies in China -- chapter 4 Catalytic impacts and spillovers from FIEs -- chapter 5 Foreign investment in Chinese cities -- chapter 6...

Thomas Biersteker evaluates the sources of Third World economic nationalism and assesses the significance of the changes that have taken place between North and South since the early 1970s. Neo-classical and neo-Marxist approaches to international and comparative political economy are explored...

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Tables -- Introduction / Vernon, Raymond -- 1. The Setting -- 2. Ventures in Raw Materials -- 3. The Spread of Manufacturing -- 4. The Trading Company -- 5. The Manufacturing Firm -- 6. The Managerial System -- Index

Main description: Analyzing the motivating forces behind the trend toward Japanese direct overseas production, this work examines the appreciation of the yen, rising labor and energy costs, environmental decay, shortages of industrial sites, and critical dependence on overseas resources as...

Governments often use direct subsidies or tax credits to encourage investment and promote economic growth and other development objectives. Properly designed and implemented, these incentives can advance a wide range of policy objectives (increasing employment, promoting sustainability, and...

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) can be effective tools for national resources revenue management. These state-owned investments, funded by commodity exports, foreign exchange reserves, or other national assets, are adaptable to the challenges posed by financial shocks and have been successfully...

Where are the next decade's greatest investment opportunities? Veteran investor Marko Dimitrijevic argues that they can be found in frontier markets, which account for seventy-one of the world's seventy-five fastest-growing economies and 19 percent of the world's GDP. Yet many investors ignore...