Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Economies: Corporate strategy and investment behaviour in the Caribbean
by Lou Barclay (Author)

Hardcover: 294 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (May 8, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN 0-203-77135-4(Adobe eReader Format)

Contents
List of tables ix
List of figures x
Acknowledgements xi
Foreword xiii
1 Introduction 1
2 The Caribbean host countries:an introduction 7
3 The motivations for foreign direct investment 18
4 The location of foreign direct investment 29
5 The modes of foreign direct investment 50
6 Hypotheses and methodology 62
7 Foreign direct investment in the Caribbean:a quantitative
investigation 76
8 Foreign direct investment in Jamaica:a case study of the
apparel industry 96
9 Foreign direct investment in Barbados:a case study of the
information service industry 124
10 Foreign direct investment in Trinidad-Tobago:a case study
of the natural gas sector 154
11 Foreign direct investment in the Caribbean:a cross-industry
case study analysis 185viii Contents
12 The future of foreign investment in the Commonwealth
Caribbean:conclusions and recommendations 203
Appendices 221
Notes 251
Bibliography 257
Index 273