FDI & social conflict

[John Gulick]

Maybe it's only one case-study, but the in the July-August _NLR_ Geisa 
Mareia Rocha does a nice job of documenting how Cardoso's neo-liberal
"experiment" in Brazil, a major component of which was luring TNC FDI,
actually strangled the rate of productive investment and export growth.
The TNC's basically bought up existing capacity in Brazil's public and 
private sectors in order to monopolize domestic markets, no more, no less. 
With attendant nasty effects on employment and fuzzier social indicators, of 
course. If I recall correctly some comparisons are made
with "dependent development," 1990's style, in Argentina, Mexico, and
Chile (in descending order of basket case-ness).

John Gulick

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