Foreign Investment and Domestic Development : : Multinationals and the State / / Jenny Rebecca Kehl.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Kehl, Jenny Rebecca,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (163 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; 1. Introduction: The Political Economy of Development --; 2. The Politics of Profit: Foreign Investment as a Development Strategy --; 3. Roadblocks: Ineffective Bureaucracies in Kenya --; 4. Corruption: Impeding Pioneer Industries in Nigeria --; 5. Growing Pains: Securing the Benefits of High Tech Investment in India --; 6. Joint Ventures: Developing a Business Class in Malaysia --; 7. Adelante: Government Commitments to Reduce Investment Risk in Chile --; 8. After NAFTA: Attracting Multinationals with Free Enterprise Zones in Mexico --; 9. Looking Forward: The Trajectory of Foreign Investment and Domestic Development --; Appendix: Research Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781626373471; 9783110784251
• DOI: 10.1515/9781626373471
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jenny Rebecca Kehl.

How is it that billions of dollars flow through the developing world without altering its reality of poverty and scarcity? Jenny Kehl explores the crucial relationship between foreign direct investment and domestic development, focusing on the wide variation in the capacity of governments to negotiate FDI to the advantage of their citizens. To isolate the influence of political factors, Kehl examines one of the largest foreign investors, General Motors, in its relations with six host countries representing a range of political systems. Her cases, along with her larger statistical study, soundly refute conventional wisdom, demonstrating that the essential elements for successfully using FDI for development are political, not economic, and pointing to the political strategies and institutions that can best maximize the domestic benefits of FDI.