Foreign Investment in Developing Countries

This volume examines foreign investment in developing countries both from a theoretical perspective and country specific perspective. It covers strategies to maximize the benefits that draw from the inward investment flow as well as examining foreign investment as a vehicle for international economic integration. The book focuses on foreign investment in the third and fourth largest economies of the world - the Peoples Republic of China and India - in addition to Indonesia, Malaysia and other countries. DALE COLYER West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA GLAUCO DE VITA Principal Lecturer in International Business, Oxford Brookes University, UK RICHARD FLETCHER Univeristy of Technology, Sydney, Australia ASHIMA GOYAL Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India ZUBAIR HASAN International Islamic University of Malaysia, Malaysia SIMRAN KAHAI Assistant Professor of Economics, John Carroll University, Cleveland, USA KEVIN LAWLER Professor of Industrial Organisation, European School of Management, Rome, Italy VEENA KESHAV PAILWAR XLRI, Jamshedpur, India RAMKISHEN RAJAN School of Economics, University of Adelaide, Australia BALA RAMASAMY Nottingham University Business School, Malaysia Campus, Malaysia HARENDER H. SAMTANI University of Western Sydney, Australia JAGJIT S. SAWHNEY Retired. Previously an Additional Economic Adviser to the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India SADHANA SRIVASTAVA Research Scholar, National University of Singapore, Singapore MICHAEL THORPE Curtin University, Perth, Australia P. K. VASUDEVA Director Principal, College of Communication and Management, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Chandigarh, India MATTHEW YEUNG Open University of Hong Kong KEVIN HONGLIN ZHANG Illinois State University, USA