Paus Foreign Investment, Development, and Globalization

Can Costa Rica Become Ireland?
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4039-7881-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Political Science and International Studies (R0)

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Paus, E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreign Direct Investment in the Global Age: New Opportunities for Development? High-tech FDI-Led Growth in Small Latecomers: An Analytical Framework The Rise of the Celtic Tiger The Development of Knowledge-based Assets in Ireland From Coffee to Computers: High-tech FDI in Costa Rica The Tico Tiger That Hasn't . . . Lessons from Ireland and Costa Rica

Über Autor(innen)

Eva Paus is Professor of Economics and the Carol Hoffmann Collins Director of the Dorothy R. and Norman E. McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives at Mount Holyoke College, USA.