Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Index of tables -- Index of graphs -- List of abbreviations and currencies -- Introduction -- Outline of the book -- Acknowledgments -- Conceptualizing and measuring foreign investment -- Dunning's ~eclectic model~ of FDI -- The Product Cycle and the Investment Development Path -- The obsolescing bargain -- Free Standing Companies -- Expatriate investment -- The Third World and colonies -- Colonial policy and FDI -- Measuring and comparing the size of FDI -- Capital and the capital output ratio -- Further measurement issues -- Final comments -- Notes -- The major source countries -- FDI in services -- Foreign Portfolio Equity Investment -- British investment -- Trends in British direct investment -- French overseas investment -- Issues in the measurement of French colonial investment -- The United States -- Belgium -- The Netherlands -- Japan -- Concluding comments -- Notes -- Africa -- Algeria -- Morocco -- Tunisia -- Cte d'Ivoire -- Liberia -- Zaire -- British Tropical Africa -- Ghana -- Nigeria -- Kenya -- Uganda -- North and South Rhodesia -- Zimbabwe -- Zambia -- Asia and the Middle East -- China -- India -- Indo-China -- Indonesia -- Korea -- Malaysia -- Philippines -- Taiwan -- Thailand -- The Middle East and petroleum -- Turkey -- Notes -- Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada -- Brazil -- Canada -- Chile -- Colombia -- Cuba -- Honduras -- Jamaica -- Mexico -- Peru -- Venezuela -- Notes -- General results -- Estimates of the foreign ownership of domestic capital -- The relative importance of expatriate investment -- Econometric explanation of pre-World War I FDI -- The relative size of railroads -- Railroad financing -- The Investment Development Path -- The ~Big Push~ and domestic growth -- Source country determinants of FDI growth -- Policies in host countries.

Location specific advantages in host countries -- Privatization and FDI -- Future trends -- Overall summary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.