Transnational Corporations and Development Policy: Critical Perspectives

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E. Rugraff, D. Sánchez-Ancochea, Andy Sumner
Springer, Dec 18, 2008 - Social Science - 321 pages
This volume offers a wide-reaching exploration of foreign direct investment and developmental impacts through case studies from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Central Europe, also examining the role of 'new players' such as Chinese, Indian and South African TNCs.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
TNCs and Development an Overview
6
TNCs and Development Policy
56
New Players Perspectives
104
MacroPerspectives
155
Sectoral Perspectives
224
Index
307
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Andy Sumner is Co-director of the newly established King's International Development Institute at King's College London, UK. He was previously a research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK. Andy is an interdisciplinary development economist with research interests in the fields of global poverty, economic development, and inequality with reference to middle-income countries and emerging economies. He was listed in Foreign Policy's 'Top 100 Global Thinkers' and Devex's '40-under-40 Global Development Leaders' for his work on the 'new bottom billion' about poverty in middle-income countries.