Managing FDI for Development in Resource-Rich States

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction: Resource-Seeking FDI: Birth, Decline and Resurgence

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   Pages 1-6

3. The Importance of Institutional Efficiency to Resource-Driven, FDI-Facilitated Development

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   Pages 7-21

4. Introducing the Resource-Rich Caribbean Countries

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   Pages 23-33

5. The Aluminium Value Chain

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   Pages 35-60

6. Upgrading in the Aluminium Value Chain and Resource-Driven, FDI-Facilitated Development

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   Pages 61-73

7. The Changing Fortunes of a Strategic Industry: The Bauxite Industry of Jamaica

   • Lou Anne Barclay

   Pages 75-100

8. Policy Fluctuations in the Resource Sector of a Small Developing Country: The Case of the Bauxite Industry of Guyana

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   Pages 101-124

9. Dependent Underdevelopment? The Aluminium MNEs and the Bauxite Industry of Suriname

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   Pages 125-147

10. Addendum: Embedded Autonomy and the Industrial Policy Process in the Twenty-First Century: Developing an Aluminium Industry in Trinidad and Tobago

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    Pages 149-168

11. Resource-Driven, FDI-Facilitated Development in CARICOM: Myth or Reality?

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    Pages 169-187

12. Conclusion

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    Pages 189-198

13. Back Matter

    Pages 199-263

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This book is a timely study in light of the resurgence of resource nationalism that is currently occurring in several resource-rich, developing countries. It moves away from the traditional explanations for the disappointing economic performance of resource-rich, developing countries, notably those advanced by key researchers.

• Developing Countries
• development
• efficiency
• performance
• research
• science and technology
• value chain
• investments and securities

• The University of the West Indies, Jamaica

  Lou Anne Barclay

Dr Lou Anne Barclay is Senior Lecturer of International Business at the Mona School of Business and Management, The University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Her work has appeared in journals as diverse as Oxford Development Studies, European Journal of Development Studies, African Development Review and Social and Economic Studies. Lou Anne won The Principal's Research Award for The Most Outstanding Researcher in the Faculty of Social Sciences in 2006. This award, however, is not the first public recognition of her research abilities. Her work has been described 'setting new standards for research work on economics of developing nations' by the esteemed Professor Alan Rugman in his 2006 article entitled, 'Multinational enterprise strategy for developing countries'. She has participated in conferences at the Harvard Business School, United Nations Centre for Trade and Development and other leading institutes. Her research interests are related to firm, industry and country competitiveness in developing economies.

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