DEV STD C10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Maquiladora
3 Mar 2017
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Foreign direct investment grows since 1980s and especially since the end of the. Brutal working conditions and foreign direct investment, Boeing supply chain: the production of goods has taken on a global character. International capital flows: cross border, short and long term flows of assets. Fdi from global south: explosion of investment to developing economies. Fdi accounts for a larger show of capital flows in the global south. Globalization is assessed in terms of . Forms and norms of globalization (see slide) Thick globalization and the current global order. Thick: most of the world"s goods and services move through global commodity chains. From cold war to a multi polar world: various economic entities around the world are challenging the us. Transnational corporations as the major source of capital flows. Patterned to capital flows to third world. Massive growth of fdo into the 3rd world following 1990. Particular form of thick globalization post cold war, dominated by finance and capital flows.
