東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Ladder to development? Foreign direc...

Zarsky, Lyuba.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Ladder to development? Foreign direct investment, spillovers, and the governance in a global economy.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ladder to development? Foreign direct investment, spillovers, and the governance in a global economy./
Author:	Zarsky, Lyuba.
Description:	193 p.
Notes:	Advisers: James K. Boyce; Gerald Epstein.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-11A.
Subject:	Economics, Commerce-Business. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3242118
ISBN:	9780542982323

Ladder to development? Foreign direct investment, spillovers, and the governance in a global economy.
Zarsky, Lyuba.

Ladder to development? Foreign direct investment, spillovers, and the governance in a global economy. - 193 p.

Advisers: James K. Boyce; Gerald Epstein.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2006.

This dissertation probes the interface between foreign direct investment (FDI) and sustainable industrial development in the context of the neo-liberal institutions governing the global economy. Comprised of three essays, it defines sustainable industrial development as simultaneous evolution across three axes: (1) economic, defined as increases in local capacities for production and innovation; (2) environmental, defined as a reduction in the environmental and health impacts of industry; and (3) social, defined as increases in the job-creating and equity-enhancing capacities of industry. The dissertation focuses on the economic and environmental dimensions.

ISBN: 9780542982323Subjects--Topical Terms:

626649
Economics, Commerce-Business.

Ladder to development? Foreign direct investment, spillovers, and the governance in a global economy.
LDR:03780nam 2200325 a 45 001 967400
005 20110915
008 110915s2006 eng d
020 $a 9780542982323
035 $a (UMI)AAI3242118
035 $a AAI3242118
040 $a UMI $c UMI
100 1 $a Zarsky, Lyuba. $3 822521
245 1 0 $a Ladder to development? Foreign direct investment, spillovers, and the governance in a global economy.
300 $a 193 p.
500 $a Advisers: James K. Boyce; Gerald Epstein.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-11, Section: A, page: 4282.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2006.
520 $a This dissertation probes the interface between foreign direct investment (FDI) and sustainable industrial development in the context of the neo-liberal institutions governing the global economy. Comprised of three essays, it defines sustainable industrial development as simultaneous evolution across three axes: (1) economic, defined as increases in local capacities for production and innovation; (2) environmental, defined as a reduction in the environmental and health impacts of industry; and (3) social, defined as increases in the job-creating and equity-enhancing capacities of industry. The dissertation focuses on the economic and environmental dimensions.
520 $a The dissertation is structured around three questions. First, is the neo-liberal claim about the positive contribution of FDI to development robust, that is, supported by empirical evidence? In particular, what is the evidence that FDI generates knowledge and environmental spillovers and "crowds in" domestic investment in developing countries? The central finding is that there is a substantial gap between theory and evidence. There is no statistical evidence that FDI generates positive and some evidence that it generates negative horizontal spillovers; and little evidence that it generates positive vertical spillovers.
520 $a Case studies find evidence of both positive and negative horizontal and vertical spillovers. Second, what factors determine the environmental and economic impacts of FDI? The central findings are that host country regulation is pivotal and that neo-liberal global governance constrains nation-states in both direct and indirect ways. Global and regional trade and investment rules directly limit requirements host country governments can place on multinational corporations. In the absence of global environmental or corporate responsibility standards, competition between states for FDI puts a downward pressure on national environmental policy. While other social forces, including citizen demand, push environmental standards up, the counteracting pressure of competition for FDI keeps them "stuck in the mud," that is, it slows the rate of innovation in response to environmental threats.
520 $a Third, how should FDI be governed, at the national and international levels, to more reliably promote sustainable industrial development? At the national level, it suggests that corporations work in a "development partnership" with host country governments and civil society. Such a partnership would define, pursue and evaluate progress towards specific development objectives. At the international level, investment rules should provide "policy space" for developing countries to pursue development objectives, and specify social responsibilities of foreign investors.
590 $a School code: 0118.
650 4 $a Economics, Commerce-Business. $3 626649
650 4 $a Economics, Finance. $3 626650
690 $a 0505
690 $a 0508
710 2 0 $a University of Massachusetts Amherst. $3 1019433
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 67-11A.
790 $a 0118
790 1 0 $a Boyce, James K., $e advisor
790 1 0 $a Epstein, Gerald, $e advisor
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2006
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3242118