List of Tables List of Abbreviations Preface Theoretical Background and Framework for Analysis The Bargaining Context and FDI in Thailand and the Philippines The Bargaining Context and FDI in Ghana and C¿d'Ivoire The Bargaining Context and FDI in Costa Rica and Guatemala The Question of Causality: Vector Autoregression Analysis Conclusions References Bibliography Index

Foreign direct investment is an important part of an increasingly global political economy. This book explores the consequences of this investment in six countries in the Global South. The country-comparison chapters detail the political and economic situations of these countries, and their policies and experiences with foreign direct investment. One chapter examines the statistical patterns among foreign direct investment and its expected outcomes. The analysis indicates that the effects of foreign direct investment are shaped by existing development patterns.

SUSAN M. MCMILLAN is Senior Researcher and Contract Administrator at Educational Data Systems in Morgan Hill, CA. In addition to her work on foreign direct investment, she has research interests in the relationship between economic interdependence and interstate conflict, and in the politics of protest and rebellion in Africa. Her previous work has been published in International Interactions, and the Mershon International Studies Review. She has served as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Pennsylvania State University, where she taught international political economy until 1997.