The Multilateral Investment System and Multinational Enterprises
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 July 1998
- ISBN 9780198293156
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 243x162x23 mm
- Weight 618 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 line figures, 38 tables 0
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Short description:
Thomas L. Brewer and Stephen Young examine the future of the world economy - and the key economic and political forces that will shape it. They describe and illustrate recent changes in government policies worldwide, and examine how those changes influence the nature and extent of foreign corporation's roles in national economies. The focus is on the development of new international rules concerning the investment and operations of multinational corporations. This book will be essential reading for all those with an interest in the future of the world economy and international business.
MoreLong description:
The multinational enterprise has been one of the foremost economic, political, and social influences in the world economy for many decades. As its role and influence have grown, so has the regime of institutions and rules concerning international investment from the proposal to create the ITO in the 1940s to the establishment of the WTO in the 1990s. Investment issues are now important items on the agenda of international economic policy-making and international business-government relations.
The book provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the international investment framework in the second half of the twentieth century -- the issues, the organizations, and current policy challenges. For instance, the book includes chapters on issues concerning the relationship of investment policy to trade and technology, competition, and economic development.
In addition to a clear and well-informed description of the role of several organizations, including ITO, GATT, the OECD, and the WTO, the authors -- one American and one British -- present numerous examples, cases, and appendices to give context and `real' world examples to the book. They also discuss many key regional arrangements, such as NAFTA and the EU, as well as bilateral investment agreements.
This up-to-date and accessible book will be vital reading for academics, students, executives, and policy-makers concerned to get to grips with the evolving international investment system.
This is a timely study of an important and complex set of issues which has rarely received the comprehensive treatment it requires. . . . This study has many admirable features. It is firmly grounded in the key concepts of economics, politics and business theory as they apply to TNCs, and it has a detailed historical base. It has obvious current relevance . . . it lays out the conflicting principles and viewpoints both within and between developing and developed countries while proposing some intermediate solutions to the deeper incursions into national policy which many governments resist. It contains an extraordinary range of tables, summaries and cases relating to everything from the contents of existing international agreement to details on the subsidies available to TNCs.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Context
Multinational Enterprises and Foreign Direct Investment Policy: Theory and Issues
Foreign Direct Investment and the World Economy: A Historical Overview
Part II: Evolution of the System
Inauguration: The Demise of the ITO and the Rise of Bilateral Treaties
Control: Codes and the Obligations of Multinational Enterprises (Late 1960s - Early 1980s)
Liberalization: National and Regional Policy Changes and the Creation of the WTO (Early 1980s - Mid 1990s)
Expansion: Multilateral, Regional, and Sectoral Developments in the Late 1990s
Part III: Policy Problems
Policy Interactions: Regional and Multilateral Arrangements
Policy Linkages: Investment, Trade, and Technology Transfer
Policy Linkages: Competition Policy
Policy Dilemmas: Developing Countries
Part IV: Implications
Current and Future Challenges
