Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Multinational Corporations and Governments -- 2. Democracy and the Political Risk of Expropriation for International Business -- 3. Institutional Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in the Developing World -- 4. Partisan...

This second edition of this publication provides an overview of important contemporary issues relating to foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational enterprises for all those who are interested in this subject, but are not always in a position to follow diverse perspectives and what is...

In late 2008, as financial markets were crashing, the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment launched the Columbia FDI Perspectives. The first Perspective, entitled “The FDI recession has begun,” correctly forecast an FDI recession in the following year. From that first...