Business ventures on a unprecedented scale. Not only is international investment growing faster than world output and trade, but an increasing share of the markets for goods and services, capital and technology, is being intermediated by transnational firms, large and small. The impact of this globalization of business on developing countries is the focus of this book. Who are the probable winners and losers? How are governments responding, in terms of national policies and regional approaches, and how does it translate in the signals they set for companies? Are there any winning strategies in the more competitive global economic environment of the 1990s? And how can the international community best support these strategies.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
part 1. International setting. The advent of alliance capitalism / John H. Dunning The world trade and investment system and developing countries / Robert Z. Lawrence part 2. Regional perspectives. Investment dynamism in Asian developing countries / Linda Y.C. Lim and Nathaniel S. Siddall Beyond macroeconomic stability in Latin America / Daniel Chudnovsky Globalization and development in Africa / John Cantwell part 3. Investment and trade. Investment, trade and international competitiveness / Louka T. Katseli Attracting investment in an integrating world economy / Stephen Thomsen part 4. Investment and technology. Investment, technology and international competiveness / Sanjaya Lall Enhancing competitive advantage in technology-intensive industries / Yair Aharoni and Seev Hirsch Access to networks / Albert Bressand.