OECD (UK & EU) Home Country Measures and FDI in Developing Countries: A Preliminary Analysis

OECD (UK & EU) Home Country Measures and FDI in Developing Countries: A Preliminary Analysis

Many OECD governments employ home country measures (HCM's) to promote foreign direct investment to developing countries. These measures include support for risk reduction, technical assistance to improve the host country investment climate and home country market access. More research is needed...

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Main Author: te Velde, Dirk Willem
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
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World Development Report 2005
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9180
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spelling okr-10986-91802021-04-23T14:02:44Z OECD (UK & EU) Home Country Measures and FDI in Developing Countries: A Preliminary Analysis te Velde, Dirk Willem World Development Report 2005 Many OECD governments employ home country measures (HCM's) to promote foreign direct investment to developing countries. These measures include support for risk reduction, technical assistance to improve the host country investment climate and home country market access. More research is needed on the effectiveness of HCM's but preliminary analysis of UK measures suggests that country specific investment related aid is useful in attracting FDI. The presumption is that FDI is good for development but that there are market and coordination failures which deter investment and cause the social benefits of FDI to be greater than the private benefits, in both host and investing countries. Since various agencies are involved in providing HCMs, one stop shops for outward investors could be considered to reduce potential confusion among investors. 2012-06-26T15:40:30Z 2012-06-26T15:40:30Z 2003 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9180 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Africa
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OECD (UK & EU) Home Country Measures and FDI in Developing Countries: A Preliminary Analysis
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description Many OECD governments employ home country measures (HCM's) to promote foreign direct investment to developing countries. These measures include support for risk reduction, technical assistance to improve the host country investment climate and home country market access. More research is needed on the effectiveness of HCM's but preliminary analysis of UK measures suggests that country specific investment related aid is useful in attracting FDI. The presumption is that FDI is good for development but that there are market and coordination failures which deter investment and cause the social benefits of FDI to be greater than the private benefits, in both host and investing countries. Since various agencies are involved in providing HCMs, one stop shops for outward investors could be considered to reduce potential confusion among investors.
author te Velde, Dirk Willem
author_facet te Velde, Dirk Willem
author_sort te Velde, Dirk Willem
title OECD (UK & EU) Home Country Measures and FDI in Developing Countries: A Preliminary Analysis
title_short OECD (UK & EU) Home Country Measures and FDI in Developing Countries: A Preliminary Analysis
title_full OECD (UK & EU) Home Country Measures and FDI in Developing Countries: A Preliminary Analysis
title_fullStr OECD (UK & EU) Home Country Measures and FDI in Developing Countries: A Preliminary Analysis
title_full_unstemmed OECD (UK & EU) Home Country Measures and FDI in Developing Countries: A Preliminary Analysis
title_sort oecd (uk & eu) home country measures and fdi in developing countries: a preliminary analysis
publisher Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate 2012
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9180
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