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Foreign
Direct Investment, Income Inequality and Poverty:
Experiences and Policy Implications
One-day conference
Friday, 28 February 2003, 10.00am - 17.00 pm
Programme and Presentations
| 10.00-10.30 |
Opening remarks
(Simon Maxwell, Director ODI. London, and Dirk Willem te Velde,
Research Fellow, ODI) |
| 10.30-12.15 |
FDI in Latin America:
chair Sheila Page (Research Fellow, ODI)
The
Impact of TNC Strategies on Development in Latin America and
the Caribbean by Michael Mortimore (Chief, Unit
on Investment and Corporate Strategies, United Nations Economic
Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago de
Chile)
Foreign direct investment and income
inequality in Latin America: Experiences and policy implications (PowerPoint presentation)
by Dirk Willem te Velde (ODI)
View final pdf paper here
Briefing Paper: Foreign Direct Investment: the Case of
Bolivia - view here
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| 12.15-13.15 |
Lunch |
| 13.15-15.00 |
FDI in Sub-Saharan Africa:
chair Prof John Humphrey (IDS)
Foreign direct investment in Southern
Africa: determinants, form and implications for development
by Carolyn Jenkins (Centre for the Studies of African Economies,
University of Oxford.)
'Creating Wealth through FDI in Landlocked COMESA Countries:
The Case of Zambia and Uganda' by Watipaso Mkandawire (Regional
Investment Agency Unit, COMESA, Lusaka) |
| 15.00-15.30 |
Tea |
| 15.30-16.15 |
FDI, Income and Employment:
chair Prof Rhys Jenkins (University of East Anglia)
Foreign direct investment, employment
and inequality: a labour market approach by Eddy Lee, Director
International Policy Group, ILO, Geneva.
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| 16.15-16.45 |
Lessons learned and Close |
We are grateful to the UK Department for International
Development for funding.
View full project details here
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