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.

Highlights include:

• Covering an important contemporary development issue focusing on the experience of one of the fastest growing and largest emerging economies in the world
• Presenting econometric findings using data at different levels of aggregation
• Providing an in-depth study on the determinants of FDI and their relations to institutions
• Exploring 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