文档介绍：本科毕业论文外文
外文题目:Missing Links: Foreign Investment and Industrial Development in Costa and Mexico
出处: The Journal of Development Studies, ,,Januaray 2005
作者: Eva & Kevin P. Gallagher
原文:
Missing Links: Foreign Investment and Industrial
Development in Costa Rica and Mexico
Abstract
This article offers an analytical framework for understanding the missing links between FDI and development, and applies it to the high technology sectors of Costa Rica and Mexico, the two countries in Latin America that have attracted the highest percentage of FDI in manufacturing. Since the advancement of knowledgebased assets in this sector is at the heart of structural change and development, we focus specifically on the conditions that enable or prevent positive knowledge spillovers from FDI. We identify two main reasons for the missing links between high-tech FDI and the development of indigenous knowledge-based assets in Costa Rica and Mexico. First, their governments did not have a coherent strategy, which would have spelled out the needed government policies to advance national capabilities, e market failures, and support the integration of national producers into TNCs’ global works. Second, there were limitations on the spillover potential from FDI. In Costa Rica and Mexico, technology or scale requirements for inputs made it difficult for large TNCs to source domest