1st Edition
Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Development in East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union A Collection of Essays in Memory of Professor Francis 'Frank' Carter
Edited By David Turnock
Copyright 2005
399 Pages
by
Routledge
399 Pages
by
Routledge
399 Pages
by
Routledge
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With the achievement of further EU and NATO enlargement, a critical political and economic lens is now focused on East Central Europe and, to a lesser extent, the other former communist states. Economic growth in each transition state - and more broadly the region - pivots around the prospects for foreign direct investment (FDI), with decisions on where foreign investors will locate their projects... Read more
Contents: In memoriam: Francis William Carter 1938-2001: an appreciation, Hugh Clout; Thematic Studies: Foreign direct investment and economic transformation in Central and Eastern Europe, Michael J. Bradshaw; Technologies of transition: foreign investment and the (re-)articulation of East Central Europe into the global economy, John Pickles and Adrian Smith; Foreign direct investment: a sectoral and spatial review, Andrew Dawson; Foreign direct investment and international trade, Alan Smith; Transformation of the central and east European passenger car industry - selective peripheral integration through foreign direct investment, Petr Pravlínek; Place marketing for foreign direct investment in central and eastern Europe, Craig Young; Foreign economic relations and the environment: a historical approach, Jonathan Oldfield and Andrew Tickle; Regional development with particular reference to cohesion in cross-border regions, David Turnock. Regional Studies: Investment and development in the Western Balkans, Derek Hall; Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria: the first 10 years, Francis W. Carter; Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria's wood products sectors - working with the grain?, Caedmon Staddon; The impact of foreign and indigenous capital in rebuilding Croatia's tourism industry, Peter Jordan; The strategies of international investors in Hungary's emerging retail market, Erika Nagy; Developing the Euroregions along the Polish-Slovak border, Wlodzimierz Kurek; Foreign direct investment and social risk in Romania: progress in less-favoured areas, Remus Cretan, Liliana Guran-Nica, Dan Platon and David Turnock; Index.
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David Turnock
