Foreign Investment, Transnationals and Developing Countries

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-15
Theories of Foreign Investment and Transnational Behaviour....Pages 16-46
Welfare of Host Countries: TNCs as Oligopolists....Pages 47-80
Welfare of Host Countries: Foreign Investment as a ‘General’ Inflow of Capital....Pages 81-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
The Background to the Sample Firms and Government Policies....Pages 89-98
An Analysis of the Sample Firms’ Accounts....Pages 99-129
‘Direct’ Balance-of-Payments Effects....Pages 130-155
‘Total’ Balance-of-Payments and ‘Social’ Income Effects: Methods of Evaluation....Pages 156-168
‘Total’ Balance-of-Payments and ‘Social’ Income Effects: the Results....Pages 169-180
‘Social’ Income Effects: Evaluating the Evaluation....Pages 181-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Regulation and Bargaining....Pages 191-218
The Implementation of Policy....Pages 219-224
Back Matter....Pages 225-280