1st Edition
Multilateral Investment Insurance and Private Investment in the Third World
By Manfred Holthus
Copyright 1987
146 Pages
by
Routledge
146 Pages
by
Routledge
146 Pages
by
Routledge
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The flow of capital to Third World countries in recent years has been less than expected for realizing their growth objectives. As a consequence, efforts have been redoubled to attract capital in the form of direct investment. The World Bank has proposed the establishment of a multilateral guarantee scheme, encompassing as many investing and host countries as possible, to reduce the risks... Read more
INTRODUCTION, Chapter 1: EARLIER PROPOSALS FOR MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT INSURANCE AND THE REASONS FOR THEIR FAILURE, Chapter 2: AIMS AND FRAME OF REFERENCE OF A MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT INSURANCE SCHEME, Chapter 3: THE WORLD BANK PROPOSAL FOR THE CREATION OF A MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT INSURANCE AGENCY, Chapter 4: ASSESSMENT OF THE ESSENTIAL PREMISSES, Chapter 5: ANALYSIS OF IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTICS FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF IMPLEMENTATION, Chapter 6: COMPATIBILITY OF THE MULTlLATERAL SCHEME WITH THE INTERESTS OF VARIOUS COUNTRY GROUPS, CONCLUSION, BIBLIOGRAPHY
Biography
Manfred Holthus, Dietrich Kebschull and Karl Wolfgang Menck are members of the Department on Developing Countries and the North-South Economic Relations of the HWWA-Institute for Economic Research, Hamburg.
