Foreign Direct Investment and the Global Economy

<p>With the emergence of a truly global marketplace regions now face far greater competition in attracting outside investment and multinational companies have to consider local conditions on many levels before choosing to invest. <em>Foreign Direct Investment and the Global Economy</em> looks at the pattern of FDI and its impacts on the global regional (trade block) national and sub-national scales. The contributors describe the much discussed global-local interlay apparent in the operations of multinational companies and their involvement with 'regulatory' institutions at different levels from the global to the local.</p>