Foreign Direct Investment in Brazil: Post-Crisis Economic Development in Emerging Markets

Foreign Direct Investment in Brazil: Post-Crisis Economic Development in Emerging Markets explores both the inward and outward ways foreign direct investment (FDI) can help Brazil sustain economic growth and development in the sometimes hostile post-global crisis era. Inward and outward FDI have major roles to play in reviving Brazil’s growth momentum and the country’s transition to a new growth paradigm less dependent on commodity exports. The book provides a comprehensive discussion on the analytical framework of FDI and the policy environment influencing the patterns and development of FDI in Brazil. It compares Brazil to other developing countries, but its focus rests on how, and to what extent, the global crisis is shaping the Brazilian institutional environment and its implications for FDI.

Covers an important contemporary development issue focusing on the experience of one of the fastest growing and largest emerging economies in the worldPresents econometric findings using data at different levels of aggregationProvides an in-depth study on the determinants of FDI and their relations to institutionsExplores both the inward and outward ways foreign direct investment (FDI) can help Brazil sustain economic growth and development in the sometimes hostile post-global crisis era

1. Evolution and Patterns of World FDI: Stylized Facts
2. Determinants of FDI
3. General FDI Framework in Brazil
4. Determinants of Inward FDI in Brazil
5. Outward FDI from Brazil
6. Inward and Outward FDI and Economic Development
7. Conclusions and Implications