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Foreign Investment, Development, and Globalization : Can Costa Rica Become Ireland? /

This book engages the question, hotly debated among theorists and policymakers alike, of how a developing country's pursuit of foreign direct investment (FDI) affects its development prospects in a globalized world. Can small latecomers to economic development use high-tech FDI to rapidly expan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paus, Eva (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:
Political Science and International Relations.
Development Economics.
Economic Policy.
Globalization.
International Relations.
Political Economy.
Political Science.
Development economics.
Economic policy.
Economics.
International relations.
Political science.
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Summary:This book engages the question, hotly debated among theorists and policymakers alike, of how a developing country's pursuit of foreign direct investment (FDI) affects its development prospects in a globalized world. Can small latecomers to economic development use high-tech FDI to rapidly expand indigenous capabilities, thus shortcutting stages of the industrialization process? What conditions, economic and non-economic, must be met for this strategy to succeed? Using the cases of Ireland and Costa Rica, the author shows how the dynamics of the FDI-development nexus have changed over time, rendering problematic Costa Rica's attempt, and those of other latecomers, to replicate the Celtic Tiger's success story.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XVI, 250 pages)
ISBN:9781403978813
DOI:10.1057/9781403978813