| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 250 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-237) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Investments, Foreign -- Ireland
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International business enterprises -- Ireland
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Investments, Foreign -- Costa Rica
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International business enterprises -- Costa Rica
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High technology industries.
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Globalization.
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globalism.
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Development economics.
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Political economy.
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International relations.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Investments & Securities -- General.
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Economics.
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Globalization
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High technology industries
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International business enterprises
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Investments, Foreign
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Costa Rica
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Ireland
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781403978813 |
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1403978816 |
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1281364231 |
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9781281364234 |
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9781403969835 |
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1403969833 |
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