Product Description: In this cutting-edge analysis of foreign direct investment (FDI), Moran--one of the acknowledged experts in this area--questions traditional econometric measures of foreign direct investment flows, identifies flaws in past research, elaborates on how the latest research has moved into new territory, and provides a first look at what new research has uncovered...read more

Product Description: Foreign direct investment is a vital part of the US economy, but it periodically raises public and congressional alarms. Under what conditions might a foreign acquisition of a US company constitute a genuine national security threat to the United States? What kinds of risks and threats should CFIUS (Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States) analysts, strategists, and congressional overseers be prepared to identify and deal with? To tackle this problem strategically, Three Threats classifies the potential threats into three distinct categories...read more

Product Description: This volume is the latest in a series based on the MIGA (Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency)-Georgetown University Symposium on International Political Risk Management, with contributions from experts from the international investment, finance, insurance, and legal fields...read more

Product Description: Is foreign direct investment good for development? Moving beyond the findings of his previous book Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Development? (CGD and IIE, 2005), Theodore H. Moran presents surprisingly good--and startlingly bad--news...read more

Product Description: What is the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on development? The answer is important for the lives of millions—if not billions—of workers, families, and communities in the developing world. The answer is crucial for policymakers in developing and developed countries, and in multilateral agencies...read more

Product Description: International Political Risk Management: Looking to the Future is the third in a series of volumes based on the MIGA-Georgetown University Symposium in International Political Risk Management. Like its predecessors, this volume offers expert assessments of needs, trends, and challenges in the international political risk insurance industry...read more

Product Description: 'International Political Risk Management, Volume 2: The Brave New World' is the latest in a series based on the MIGA-Georgetown University Symposium on International Political Risk Management. Volumes in this series offer leading-edge assessments of needs and capabilities in the international political risk insurance industry...read more

Product Description: What is the role of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation in relation to private sector political risk insurers and financial institutions supporting the flow of foreign direct investment to emerging markets? This study provides an assessment of OPIC's various missions as a promoter of development, supporter of labor rights, protector of living standards in the United States, and advocate of environmental standards around the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Images of sweatshop labour in developing countries have rallied opponents of globalization against foreign direct investment (FDI). The controversy is most acute over the treatment of low-skilled workers producing garments, footwear, toys and sports equipment in foreign-owned plants or the plants of subcontractors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Parental Supervision amplifies the research Theodore Moran first presented in Foreign Direct Investment and Development (IIE 1998), assessing the opportunities and dangers that foreign direct investment may present to the growth of developing countries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Printed on Demand. Limited stock is held for this title. If you would like to order 30 copies or more please contact books@worldbank.org This work brings together the assessments and experiences of leading academics and practitioners from the international investor, lender and insurance communities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Managing International Political Risk analyzes the changing nature of threats to international investment in the "BEM's"- Big Emerging Markets- such as China, Brazil, Russia, Pakistan, India, Venezuela, Vietnam, and the Philippines...read more

Product Description: Managing International Political Risk analyzes the changing nature of threats to international investment in the "BEM's"- Big Emerging Markets- such as China, Brazil, Russia, Pakistan, India, Venezuela, Vietnam, and the Philippines...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)