Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Development.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview -- Chapter 2 The Impact of Inward FDI on Host Countries: Why Such Different Answers? -- Chapter 3 Disentangling FDI Spillover Effects: What Do Firm Perceptions Tell Us? -- Chapter 4 Foreign Direct Investment and Externalities: The Case for Public Intervention -- Chapter 5 R&D Activities of Foreign and National Establishments in Turkish Manufacturing -- Chapter 6 Foreign Direct Investment and Local Economic Development: Beyond Productivity Spillovers -- Chapter 7 Multinational Firms and Backward Linkages: A Critical Survey and a Simple Model -- Comment: Gordon H. Hanson -- Comment: Michael P. Keane -- Chapter 8 Does Foreign Direct Investment Accelerate Economic Growth? -- Chapter 9 Inappropriate Pooling of Wealthy and Poor Countries in Empirical FDI Studies -- Chapter 10 Intrafirm Trade of US MNCs: Findings and Implications for Models and Policies Toward Trade and Investment -- Comment: Marc J. Melitz -- Chapter 11 How Does FDI Affect Host Country Development? Using Industry Case Studies to Make Reliable Generalizations -- Chapter 12 China's Policies on FDI: Review and Evaluation -- Chapter 13 Is Africa's Skepticism of Foreign Capital Justified? Evidence from East African Firm Survey Data -- Comment: Robert Z. Lawrence -- Chapter 14 Conclusions and Implications for FDI Policy in Developing Countries, New Methods of Research, and a Future Research Agenda -- About the Contributors -- Index.