[PDF] Foreign Capital Domestic Savings And Economic Development eBook

Author : K. L. Gupta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9400978855

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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

Author : Janine L. Bowen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0429667698

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Published in 1998, this book provides an empirical analysis of the impact of foreign economic aid in 67 developed countries over a 19 year period. The results include the relationships between aid and growth and the implication that methodologies traditionally used have been largely responsible for inconsistent findings in the past.

Author : T. J. Byres
Publisher : London : Cass
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Collection of essays on central issues raised by the 1969 pearson commission report on the role of development aid and foreign investment in developing countries - covers theoretical aspects of foreign aid, its role in economic development, etc. References.

Author : John Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429693397

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"I would like to thank the business and education leaders who served on the CED Subcommittee on Finance and Third World Economic Growth for their diligent work and practical contributions. In particular I would like to thank Subcommittee Chairman James W. McKee, chairman of the executive committee of CPC International Inc., whose leadership, insight, and interest in these issues guided the subcommittee through to publication of the policy statement. I would also like to acknowledge the outstanding work of Professor Isaiah Frank of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, who served as project director. His knowledge in this field and expertise in drafting the statement clarified many complex issues. Thanks also go to Research Assistant Patricia Pollard of Johns Hopkins University, who was of valuable assistance to Dr. Frank in compiling the necessary research. William "