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100 _aKumar, Nagesh
245 _aWTO regime, host country policies and global patterns of MNE activity: recent quantitative studies and India's strategic response
260 _c2001
300 _ap.39-50
362 _a6 Jan
520 _aWhile in general it is admitted that host governments' policies may play an important role in extracting the benefits of FDI for development, a more exact analysis of the relative role of different policy measures in shaping the magnitudes and quality of FDI inflows is not available. Such an analysis has become even more important now in the context of the new international trading regime under the aegis of the WTO which covers issues which have an important bearing on the ability of national governments in regulating the patterns of FDI inflows. This paper presents some findings of a comprehensive attempt to quantitatively analyse the role of structural, geographical and policy factors in shaping the patterns of MNE activity. The focus is on the role of host government policies and on the implications of the emerging WTO regime in their light. - Reproduced
650 _aTransnational corporations
650 _aWorld Trade Organization
650 _aInternational trade
773 _aEconomic and Political Weekly
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