Industrial Economy: FDI as a determinant of national strategies

This educational book proposes to define national industrial strategies specific to foreign direct investment. The book addresses the following questions: What is FDI? What are the forms of FDI? How can FDI be empirically assessed? How could an investment promotion agency influence the location decision of foreign investors? How will taxation affect the attractiveness of an economy for FDI? To what extent do the complexity and length of a country''s administrative apparatus represent a disincentive to FDI inflows? Finally through the analysis of the effect of export processing zones (EPZs) we will derive the characteristics of this industrial strategy. The focus will be on the strategies pursued by MNFs in EPZs as well as the determining factors that make an EPZ attractive.