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Foreign Investment, Transnationals and Developing Countries

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Transnational Corporations and Developing Countries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction

      • Sanjaya Lall, Paul Streeten
      Pages 3-15
    3. Theories of Foreign Investment and Transnational Behaviour

      • Sanjaya Lall, Paul Streeten
      Pages 16-46
    4. Welfare of Host Countries: TNCs as Oligopolists

      • Sanjaya Lall, Paul Streeten
      Pages 47-80
  3. The Country Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
    2. The Background to the Sample Firms and Government Policies

      • Sanjaya Lall, Paul Streeten
      Pages 89-98
    3. An Analysis of the Sample Firms’ Accounts

      • Sanjaya Lall, Paul Streeten
      Pages 99-129
    4. ‘Direct’ Balance-of-Payments Effects

      • Sanjaya Lall, Paul Streeten
      Pages 130-155
    5. ‘Social’ Income Effects: Evaluating the Evaluation

      • Sanjaya Lall, Paul Streeten
      Pages 181-188
  4. Host Government Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
    2. Regulation and Bargaining

      • Sanjaya Lall, Paul Streeten
      Pages 191-218
    3. The Implementation of Policy

      • Sanjaya Lall, Paul Streeten
      Pages 219-224
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 225-280

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Economics and Statistics, Oxford, UK

    Sanjaya Lall

  • Queen Elizabeth House and Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Oxford, UK

    Paul Streeten

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