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How can countries in the underdeveloped world position themselves to take best advantage of the positive economic benefits of globalization? One avenue to success is the harnessing of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the nontraditional forms of the high-technology and service sectors, where an educated workforce is essential and the spillover effects to other sectors are potentially very beneficial.

Title: Harnessing Globalization: The Promotion of Nontraditional Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America”
Author: Thunderbird Professor Roy C. Nelson, Ph.D., is also the author of “Industrialization and Political Affinity: Industrial Policy in Brazil” (Routledge Press, 1995). His knowledge of Latin American business practices and his field research in nearly a dozen Latin American countries have made him a foremost expert on Latin American business strategy. He speaks English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Price: $28
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN: 978-0271035130
Description: Paperback, 256 pages
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“Industrialization and Political Affinity” looks at the issue of political affinity as a way of explaining industrial policies in Newly Industrializing Countries (NIC’s). Focusing on Brazil as one of the most technologically and economically advanced of the NIC’s, Roy C. Nelson explores how policy affinity can help or hinder industrial policies that promote the development of indigenous technological capabilities.

Title: Industrialization and Political Affinity: Industrial policy in Brazil
Author: Thunderbird Professor Roy C. Nelson, Ph.D., is also the author of “Harnessing Globalization: The Promotion of Nontraditional Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America” (Pennsylvania State University Press (July 2009). His knowledge of Latin American business practices and his field research in nearly a dozen Latin American countries have made him a foremost expert on Latin American business strategy. He speaks English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition (September 28, 1995)
Price: $107.03
ISBN: 978-0415125284
Description: Hardcover, 224 pages
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