The late twentieth century has witnessed a dramatic upsurge in foreign directinvestment in the Third World. Based upon thorough statistical analysis thebook pre... » 

The late twentieth century has witnessed a dramatic upsurge in foreign directinvestment in the Third World. Based upon thorough statistical analysis thebook presents exhaustive casestudies of foreign investment policy inmetropolitan countries and of the experiences of host countries throughoutAfrica Asia and Latin America. With a wide geographical and historical focusit also makes an important contribution to current debates on dependencytheory. «