Even before the onset of the global crisis, the global market for foreign direct investment (FDI) had undergone significant changes. Foremost amongst these changes was the increasing importance of emerging market multinationals (MNEs). While outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) from these...

Foreign direct investment from emerging markets is an increasingly important phenomenon, and firms from developed countries alone no longer undertake this activity. This chapter provides an overview and summary of Foreign Direct Investment from Emerging Markets: The Challenges Ahead, edited by...

Collected here are papers from the conference, Thinking Outward, which dealt with a range of issues related to the key players in this process - firms, home countries and host countries and the book will have a foreword from Jeffrey Sachs. In the wake of the financial crisis, these issues remain...