Competing for foreign direct investment: Efforts to promote nontraditional FDI in Costa Rica, Brazil, and Chile

Studies in Comparative International Development

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 3-28

  Nelson, Roy C ^a  

^a The Garvin School of International Management ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; INVESTMENT INCENTIVE;

BRAZIL; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHILE; COSTA RICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33644527235     PISSN: 00393606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02686297     Document Type: Article

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