Focusing on Mexico, this article makes two departures from existing studies of the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI): (1) it disaggregates investment into three types (resource-, market- and efficiency-seeking); and (2) it models variation in investment subnationally, across the 32...

With the Maoist insurgency in Nepal currently bound in the more pacific realm of electoral politics, questions arise about how an initially modest insurgency came so close to overwhelming the Nepali state. This paper seeks to address two primary questions: first, why did the insurgency arise...

Ethnographic methods are well suited to examining and understanding the nature of the relations that inhere in particular, documentable social ties. Actors' “lived experiences” and perceptions of the social relationships in which they participate are necessarily related to the manner in...

Spanish Abstract: Las empresas extranjeras, como vehículos de la inversión extranjera directa (IED), se les consideran como un canal que pueden contribuir al crecimiento y desarrollo de las regiones, al incremento del nivel de empleo, y como un factor que tiene la capacidad de transferir nuevo...