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Policy Options for Promoting FDI in the LDCs

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  • Karl Sauvant

    (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, a joint center of Columbia Law School and The Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York)

  • Padma Mallampally

    (Former staff member of UNCTAD¡¦s Investment Division)

Abstract

Foreign direct investment (FDI) plays an important role in the world economy and has the potential to contribute towards accelerating the process of economic growth and sustainable development in the least developed countries (LDCs). The paper provides a brief overview of recent trends and patterns in FDI flows to the LDCs, and then takes stock of the policies, programmes and measures pursued by host and home countries and by international organizations to stimulate FDI flows to LDCs and increase their benefits for these countries. It then lays out a number of policy proposals on how flows to LDCs, and the benefits associated with them, can be enhanced. Finally, it outlines some options for international action to strengthen such efforts ¡V proposals and options that are also relevant to other developing countries.

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  • Karl Sauvant & Padma Mallampally, 2015. "Policy Options for Promoting FDI in the LDCs," Transnational Corporations Review, Ottawa United Learning Academy, vol. 7(3), pages 237-268, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:oul:tncr09:v:7:y:2015:i:3:p:237-268
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