FDI & social conflict

[Patrick Bond]

There's lots of work done by Yash Tandon on the stupidity of attracting FDI
to Africa, some of which is about the correlation of horrid oil TNCs to
horrid compradors in Angola, Nigeria, DRC and the like. His outfit, Southern
and East African Trade and Investment Negotiations Initiative, does regular
email news.

A second edition of Zimbabwe's Plunge (coauthored with Masimba Manyanya)
just went to the printer, and has a summary of the debate over how FDI is
draining the DRC. I can send it to anyone who likes, offlist...

Cheers from a site of impressive net foreign direct disinvestment,

Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 6:39 PM
Subject: FDI & social conflict


> A friend writes...
>
> >From: "Tom Kruse" <tkruse at albatros.cnb.net>
> >To: "'Doug Henwood'" <dhenwood at panix.com>
> >Subject: Request for leads from Tom in Bolivia
> >Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 11:58:25 -0400
> >MIME-Version: 1.0
> >
> >A quick question today: know of any good studies out there that link
> >FDI to social conflict in Lat Am?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Doug
>
>