The growing disparity between the developed and the developing
countries has once again rekindled the debate about the relative
merits of foreign investment as means whereby the developed
countries can help the devel oping countries in both achieving a
reasonable rate of growth and also from preventing the widening gap
between the North and the South from widening even further. This
renewed interest in the debate was most sharply highlighted at the
recently concluded North-South economic summit conference at
Cancun, Mexico. There, the United States took the position that
massive increases in foreign aid were neither practical nor the
best means of ensuring continuing and satisfactory growth in the
developing countries. Rather the solution was to be found in
depending on a free market economy and on inflows of private
foreign investment. Behind these views, of course lie the more
fundamental questions: for example, what should be the role of
multinational corporations in the developing countries since they
constitute the main source of foreign private investment? Should
there be greater cooperation between the public sectors of the
North and the South? What is the best means of bridging the
economic gap between the North and the South: through direct
transfers of wealth from the North to the South or through raising
South's growth rates via the transfer of technology and the inflow
of investment by multinationals? These questions are of fundamental
importance and have wide ranging implications, not only for the
economic"
General
Imprint: |
Kluwer Academic Publishers
|
Country of origin: |
Netherlands |
Series: |
International Studies in Economics and Econometrics, 9 |
Release date: |
December 1982 |
First published: |
1983 |
Authors: |
K.L. Gupta
• M.A. Islam
|
Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
174 |
Edition: |
1983 ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-90-277-1449-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
Economics >
Macroeconomics >
Monetary economics
|
LSN: |
90-277-1449-5 |
Barcode: |
9789027714497 |
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