Foreign Direct Investment and Development: Launching a Second Generation of Policy Research

by Theodore H. Moran

Book Overview

This volume is the culmination of Institute investigations on the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and development. Today, more than one-third of world trade takes place in the form of intrafirm transactions--that is, trade among the various parts of the same corporate network spread across borders--and the bulk of technology is transferred within the confines of integrated international production systems. This means that FDI...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881326003
• ISBN13: 9780881326000
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Peterson Institute for International Economic
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"