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  title info:
    title: Multinational Enterprises, Foreign Direct Investment and Growth in Africa
    sub title: South African Perspectives
  name:
    name part: Gilroy, Bernard Michael.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Gries, Thomas.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Naudé, Willem A.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 312 p. 31 illus. online resource.
  abstract: How can Africa, the world’s most lagging region, benefit from globalisation and achieve sustained economic growth? Africa needs greater investment by Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) to improve competitiveness and generate more growth through positive spill-over effects. Despite the fact that Africa’s returns on investment averaged 29% since 1990, Africa has gained merely 1% of global Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows. The challenge for African countries is how to be a more desirable destination for FDI. The study integrates three currents of economic research, namely from the literature on (endogenous) economic growth, convergence and regional integration, the explanations for Africa’s poor growth and the growing understanding of the role of MNEs in a global economy. The empirical side of the book is based on an econometric study of the determinants of FDI in Africa as well as a detailed firm-level survey conducted in 2000.
  table of contents: Africa in the Global Economy -- On Global Economic Growth and the Challenge Facing Africa -- Catching-Up, Falling-Behind and the Role of FDIs -- The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Africa -- The Global Integration of Africa: The EU-SA Free Trade Agreement and German MNEs in South Africa -- Multinational Enterprises in Africa -- The Changing View of Multinational Enterprises and Africa -- German Multinationals in Africa -- Obstacles Facing German Enterprises in South Africa -- Competitive Intelligence in a Foreign Environment: German and Canadian Firms Compared -- Labour Market Adjustment, Foreign Direct Investment and Human Resource Development -- Employment Effects of Foreign Direct Investment: A Theoretical Analysis with Heterogeneous Labour -- Human Resource Development: A Sine Qua Non for Foreign Direct Investment in South Africa -- Conclusions.
  note: edited by Bernard Michael Gilroy, Thomas Gries, Willem A. Naudé.
  subject:
    topic: International economics
  subject:
    topic: Economic growth
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: International Economics
  subject:
    topic: Economic Growth
  classification: HF1351-1647
  classification: 337
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Contributions to Economics
  identifier: 9783790816105
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b138321
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204154613.0
    record identifier: 978-3-7908-1610-5