Harnessing Globalization – The Promotion of Nontraditional Foreign Direct Inves…

Harnessing GlobalizationThe Promotion of Nontraditional Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America\nAuthor(s): Roy C. Nelson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, United States\nImprint: Pennsylvania State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780271035130, 978-0271035130\nSynopsis\nHow can countries in the underdeveloped world position themselves to take best advantage of the positive economic benefits of globalization? One avenue to success is the harnessing of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the nontraditional forms of the high-technology and service sectors, where an educated workforce is essential and the spillover effects to other sectors are potentially very beneficial. In this book, Roy Nelson compares efforts in three Latin American countriesBrazil, Chile, and Costa Ricato attract nontraditional FDI and analyzes the reasons for their relative success or failure. As a further comparison, he uses the successes of FDI promotion in Ireland and Singapore to .