Basic Issues in the Geography of Foreign Direct Investments
Abstract
This paper provides a brief review of five broad topics that relate to the geography of foreign direct investment (FDI). The purpose of this paper is to establish some of the multiple concerns of FDI analyses now being conducted in several disciplines. The first topic concerns considerations of both types of investing industries and nations that serve as sources of FDI. The second topic covers factors in the decision to invest abroad. The third topic is the timing of FDI. The fourth topic involves the method of FDI. The fifth topic concerns the political-economic environments of host nations and includes discussion of political risk. The topics presented are artificially partitioned because they are all interrelated through a common geographical base.References
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