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024	8		_a10.1596/0-8213-4050-6
035			_a(The World Bank)448
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100	1		_aWeigel, Dale R. _96204
245	1	0	_aForeign direct investment / _cWeigel, Dale R.
264		1	_aWashington, D.C. : _bThe World Bank, _c1997
300			_a1 online resource (128 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	3		_aThe report reviews lessons from the International Finance Corporation's (IFC) investment, and advisory experience in the developing world, which show the interactions between policy frameworks, and the volume and structure of foreign direct investments (FDI). Case studies show how the Corporation promotes successful project structures, and regulatory changes, as it tries to attain the strongest development impact for investments. In developing countries, FDI has flowed mainly into manufacturing, and processing industries. In the past, investment attractiveness had been closely linked to possession of natural resources, or a large domestic market, while production and trade globalization, competitiveness as a location for investment, and exporting, have become the main determinants of attractiveness. Sources of FDI in the past, came almost exclusively from industrial countries, though recently those sources have widened, emerging from developing countries in their own right, and for their own regions. IFC, as an international initiative to promote FDI in developing countries, is liable to promote bilateral trade agreements, bilateral and multilateral financial institutions, and investment promotion programs; its advisory role may vary from diagnostic studies overviewing constraints to FDI, to investment policy studies giving specific solutions on either changes, or strategies. The study further looks at how policy environment is set, and at finding investor opportunities, through project financing, largely structured as joint ventures. The inherent, fragile nature of joint ventures, restricts foreign ownership, thus limiting project structures; however, careful project design has lead to successful operations, by ensuring management, and financial arrangements. Still, to maximize benefits, an unfinished agenda of policy reform remains, and, as more countries open to FDI, this integration will lead to an overall increase in FDI flows.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		4	_aDebt Markets _96205
650		4	_aEmerging Markets _96206
650		4	_aEnvironment _96207
650		4	_aEnvironmental Economics and Policies _96208
650		4	_aFinance and Financial Sector Development _96209
650		4	_aForeign Direct Investment _96210
650		4	_aInternational Economics & Trade _96211
650		4	_aInvestment and Investment Climate _96212
650		4	_aMacroeconomics and Economic Growth _96213
650		4	_aPrivate Sector Development _96214
700	1		_aGregory, Neil F. _96215
700	1		_aWagle, Dileep M. _96216
700	1		_aWeigel, Dale R. _96204
776	0	8	_aPrint Version: _z9780821340509
830		0	_aWorld Bank e-Library. _96217
856	4	0	_uhttp://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/0-8213-4050-6
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