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Rethinking Foreign Investment for Sustainable Development: Lessons from Latin America
Rethinking Foreign Investment for Sustainable Development: Lessons from Latin America, After almost twenty-five years of experimenting with the neo-liberal economic reforms collectively known as Washington Consensus policies, Latin Americans are starting to reassess the merits of these policies - at the voting booth. Many newly elected go, Rethinking Foreign Investment for Sustainable Development: Lessons from Latin America has a rating of 3 stars
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  • Rethinking Foreign Investment for Sustainable Development: Lessons from Latin America
  • Written by author Kevin P. Gallagher
  • Published by Anthem Press, February 2009
  • After almost twenty-five years of experimenting with the neo-liberal economic reforms collectively known as "Washington Consensus" policies, Latin Americans are starting to reassess the merits of these policies - at the voting booth. Many newly elected go
  • Consisting of country case studies and comparative analyses from Latin American and US based political economists, this volume addresses the shortcomings of foreign investment for development, and sets out the challenges facing policy makers in this field
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List of Figures vii

List of Tables ix

Foreword José Antonio Ocampo xiii

Acknowledgements xxi

Author Biographies xxiii

1 FDI and Sustainable Development in the Americas Kevin P. Gallagher Daniel Chudnovsky Roberto Porzecanski 1

2 Is Foreign Investment Always Good for Development? Manuel R. Agosin 21

Part 1 Country Assessments 31

3 Islands of Possibility: MNCs and Economic Development in Brazil Celio Hiratuka 33

4 Foreign Investment: The Polarization of the Mexican Economy Enrique Dussel Peters 51

5 A Missed Opportunity: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Argentina Daniel Chudnovsky Andrés López 77

6 Foreign Investment and Economic Development in Costa Rica: The Unrealized Potential José Cordero Eva Paus 97

Part 2 Political Economy of Natural Resources and The Environment 125

7 Investment Rules and Sustainable Development: Preliminary Lessons from the Uruguayan Pulp Mills Case Martina Chidiak 127

8 Foreigners in the Forests: Saviors or Invaders? Nicola Borregaard Annie Dufey Lucy Winchester 147

9 Bucking the Trend: The Political Economy of Natural Resources in Three Andean Countries Leonardo Stanley 179

10 Beyond Pollution Haloes: The Environmental Effects of FDI in The Pulp and Paper and Petrochemicals Sectors in Brazil Luciana Togeiro de Almeida Sueila dos Santos Rocha 201

11 Missing Links, Dashed Hopes: FDI Spillovers and Sustainable Industrial Development in Mexico's Silicon Valley Lyuba Zarsky Kevin Gallagher 217

Notes 241

References 253

Index 267


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