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by Werner Baer,William Miles

Author: Werner Baer,William Miles
Subcategory: Social Sciences
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (September 27, 2001)
Pages: 234 pages
Category: Politics
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Examine the changing nature of foreign investments in Latin America!Generously enhanced with .

Examine the changing nature of foreign investments in Latin America!Generously enhanced with easy-to-understand charts, tables, and graphs, this book covers the ins and outs of foreign direct investment in the established and emerging markets of Latin America. In addition to an overview of direct investment for the entire Latin American region in the 1990s, this valuable book examines specific countries’ experiences with FDI in that decade.

New York: Routledge, 2001, pp. 55-82. Overall, foreign direct investment was often associated with restructuring, implying rationalization measures and labour shedding. Chapter · March 2001 with 4 Reads. This paper analyses the evolution and nature of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico and their impact on the labour market. Attracting FDI has been a key aspect of the countries’ outward-oriented development strategy, as FDI is seen as compensating scarce domestic financial resources that are needed to help modernize production and to facilitate integration into the world market.

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Werner Baer, William Miles. Examine the changing nature of foreign investments in Latin America! Generously enhanced with easy-to-understand charts, tables, and graphs, this book covers the ins and outs of foreign direct investment in the established and emerging markets of Latin America. Reference Notes Included.

Examine the changing nature of foreign investments in Latin America . By Werner Baer, William Miles.

Examine the changing nature of foreign investments in Latin America!Generously enhanced with easy-to-understand charts, tables, and graphs, this book covers the ins and outs of foreign direct investment in the established and emerging markets of Lati. how Peru addressed its balance-of-payments crisis in a time when its domestic financial markets were thin and there existed few sources of financing besides banks. how Paraguay’s historical lack of infrastructure has hampered FDI efforts there.

Its Changing Nature at the Turn of the Century. These include Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Spending on environmental projects is on the rise, and Latin American nations are at the forefront of this financial whirlwind in the developing world.

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Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America: Its Changing Nature at the Turn of the Century. Huber, Evelyne, and Stephens, John. Development and Crisis of the Welfare State: Parties and Policies in Global Markets. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. Binghamton, NY : International Business Press. Iversen, Torben, and Cusack, Thomas.

Werner Baer is Jorge Lemann Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

Werner Baer is Jorge Lemann Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Among his most recent publications are Liberalization and its Consequences and Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America: Its Changing Nature at the Turn of the Century. Contents: Introduction. The Historical Trajectory. The Colonial Period and the Nineteenth Century. Baer?s book has become the standard, authoritative reference for those who need to understand the current workings, as well as the historical evolution, of the Brazilian economy.

Examine the changing nature of foreign investments in Latin America!Generously enhanced with easy-to-understand charts, tables, and graphs, this book covers the ins and outs of foreign direct investment in the established and emerging markets of Latin America. In addition to an overview of direct investment for the entire Latin American region in the 1990s, this valuable book examines specific countries’ experiences with FDI in that decade. These include Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.Spending on environmental projects is on the rise, and Latin American nations are at the forefront of this financial whirlwind in the developing world. Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America: Its Changing Nature at the Turn of the Century examines the difficulties of assessing environmental investments. It analyzes the role of international capital in Latin-American environmental issues and discusses the major players, such as the World Bank, in international capital and the environment.Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America presents case studies that illustrate: the history of FDI in Argentina and the impact of the privatization of state-owned enterprises in 1991-1993 the similarities and differences between 1990s FDI in Mexico and Chile the ways that modern investment in Brazil differs in purpose from investment there in previous economic eras how Peru addressed its balance-of-payments crisis in a time when its domestic financial markets were thin and there existed few sources of financing besides banks how Paraguay’s historical lack of infrastructure has hampered FDI efforts there Ecuador’s financial and balance-of-payments crisis-its currency is in free-fall and its financial institutions are on the brink of collapse . . . and much more!Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America packs all this valuable information into a single user-friendly source. As we move into the new millennium, no student, educator, or investor interested in this quickly evolving, volatile market should be without it!