Foreign Investment in Developing Countries

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Introduction

   • Harbhajan S. Kehal, Harender H. Samtani, Jagjit S. Sawhney

   Pages 1-12

3. Foreign Direct Investment and its Determinants: A Look to the Past, A View to the Future

   • Glauco De Vita, Kevin Lawler

   Pages 13-32

4. The Role of Foreign Direct Investment and its Determinants

   • Simran Kahai

   Pages 33-49

5. Inward Foreign Investment and the Chinese Economy

   • Michael Thorpe

   Pages 50-77

6. Maximizing Benefits from Foreign Direct Investment and Minimizing its Costs: What Can We Learn from China?

   • Kevin Honglin Zhang

   Pages 78-91

7. Foreign Investment in India: Riding the Wave

   • Ashima Goyal

   Pages 92-111

8. Foreign Direct Investment, Resource Availability and Efficiency in India

   • Veena Keshav Pailwar

   Pages 112-133

9. The European Union’s Foreign Direct Investment into Indonesia: Determinants and Threats

   • Bala Ramasamy, Matthew Yeung

   Pages 134-153

10. Determinants of FDI Flows to Developing Economies: Evidence from Malaysia

    • Zubair Hasan

    Pages 154-170

11. What Does the Economic Rise of China Imply for ASEAN and India?: Focus on Trade and Investment Flows

    • Sadhana Srivastava, Ramkishen S. Rajan

    Pages 171-204

12. Foreign Investment, Foreign Trade and Related Issues: A Case Study for India and China

    • P. K. Vasudeva

    Pages 205-222

13. Foreign Direct Investment in the Primary Sector of Mexico

    • Dale Colyer

    Pages 223-237

14. The Impact of Culture on Investment in Emerging Markets

    • Richard Fletcher

    Pages 238-258

15. Back Matter

    Pages 259-261

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This volume examines foreign investment in developing countries both from a theoretical perspective and country specific perspective. It covers strategies to maximize the benefits that draw from the inward investment flow as well as examining foreign investment as a vehicle for international economic integration. The book focuses on foreign investment in the third and fourth largest economies of the world - the Peoples Republic of China and India - in addition to Indonesia, Malaysia and other countries.

• China
• Developing Countries
• Developing Economies
• Emerging Markets
• Foreign Investment

• University of Western Sydney, Australia

  Harbhajan S. Kehal

DALE COLYER West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA GLAUCO DE VITA Principal Lecturer in International Business, Oxford Brookes University, UK RICHARD FLETCHER Univeristy of Technology, Sydney, Australia ASHIMA GOYAL Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India ZUBAIR HASAN International Islamic University of Malaysia, Malaysia SIMRAN KAHAI Assistant Professor of Economics, John Carroll University, Cleveland, USA KEVIN LAWLER Professor of Industrial Organisation, European School of Management, Rome, Italy VEENA KESHAV PAILWAR XLRI, Jamshedpur, India RAMKISHEN RAJAN School of Economics, University of Adelaide, Australia BALA RAMASAMY Nottingham University Business School, Malaysia Campus, Malaysia HARENDER H. SAMTANI University of Western Sydney, Australia JAGJIT S. SAWHNEY Retired. Previously an Additional Economic Adviser to the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India SADHANA SRIVASTAVA Research Scholar, National University of Singapore, Singapore MICHAEL THORPE Curtin University, Perth, Australia P. K. VASUDEVA Director Principal, College of Communication and Management, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Chandigarh, India MATTHEW YEUNG Open University of Hong Kong KEVIN HONGLIN ZHANG Illinois State University, USA

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