1. Introduction 2. Capital Flows, Development and Debt Crises 3. The Nature of Direct and Equity Investment and the Positive View 4. Recent Trends in Development Finance 5. Ignorance is Bliss? Data on the Stocks of Direct and Equity Investment 6. Ignorance is Bliss II: Data on Capital Flows, Profits and FDI-Related Trade 7. The Foreign Exchange Dimension: General Principles 8. Foreign Exchange Effects of Direct and Equity Investment on the Host Country 9. Other Effects at the National Level 10. The Global Dimension: Competition for Direct Investment and Export Markets 11. Net Transfers and the Build-Up of Investment Stocks 12. Surges and Cycles 13. Was That It? Direct Investment and Current Account Deficits in the Mexican and Asian Financial Crises 14. Was That It II: Capital Flows of FDI and Equity Investment in the Mexican and Asian Crises 15. Conclusions and Policy Implications Annex I: Data Discrepancies and the Balance of Payments Effects of Direct Investment in Thailand Annex II: Balance of Payments Effects of Direct Investment in Malaysia: Data Limitations and Sensitivity to Assumptions
This economic study analyzes what is actually happening to direct foreign investment as a benefit which globalisation offers the South as a kickstart to growth.
David Woodward is an economist who spent several years working in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, including a two year secondment to the IMF and World Bank. In 1986, he resigned to work for the voluntary sector. Since that time he has been an independent economic/development consultant, in which capacity he has done research and writing for UNCTAD, UNDP and the Institute of Child Health, as well as a variety of development NGOs including (amongst others) Oxfam, One World Action, and the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad). In 2000 took up an appointment in the Health and Sustainable Development Department of the World Health Organization (WHO).
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