Foreign Investment, Development, and Globalization
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Foreign Investment, Development, and Globalization

Can Costa Rica Become Ireland?

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Foreign Investment, Development, and Globalization

Can Costa Rica Become Ireland?

About this book

This book engages the question, hotly debated among theorists and policymakers alike, of how a developing country's pursuit of foreign direct investment (FDI) affects its development prospects in a globalized world. Can small latecomers to economic development use high-tech FDI to rapidly expand indigenous capabilities, thus shortcutting stages of the industrialization process? What conditions, economic and non-economic, must be met for this strategy to succeed? Using the cases of Ireland and Costa Rica, the author shows how the dynamics of the FDI-development nexus have changed over time, rendering problematic Costa Rica's attempt, and those of other latecomers, to replicate the Celtic Tiger's success story.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Tables
  4. List of Figures and Graphs
  5. Acronyms and Abbreviations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. 1 Foreign Direct Investment in the Global Age: New Opportunities for Development?
  8. 2 High-Tech FDI-Led Growth in Small Latecomers: An Analytical Framework
  9. 3 The Rise of the Celtic Tiger
  10. 4 The Development of Knowledge-Based Assets in Ireland
  11. 5 From Coffee to Computers: High-Tech FDI in Costa Rica
  12. 6 The Tico Tiger That Hasn't…
  13. 7 Lessons from Ireland and Costa Rica
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Index