This essay addresses the recent deceleration in the pace of global FDI and asks whether multinational corporations are … actually in retreat. It identifies the forces that are slowing the expansion of FDI, and sketches the role that multinational …

economic activity, this paper discusses the scope for FDI as an instrument of regional policy aimed at offsetting the … centripetal forces unleashed by liberalisation. Focusing on Sweden, the paper finds no signs that FDI has contributed to reducing … - including support for FDI - have not performed better in terms of employment, labour productivity, and education levels than …