By Frank Bartels, Nick Freeman

This booklet explains the dynamics at the back of southeast Asia's overseas funding task, and appears on the region's ideas for reviving its recognition as an enticing host for overseas traders. each one bankruptcy makes a speciality of a key aspect; jointly, they painting southeast Asia's overseas funding profile and clients. via bringing those key interlocking parts jointly below a unmarried disguise, the ebook goals to supply a extra profound realizing of the demanding situations southeast Asian nations face of their on-going makes an attempt either to draw new overseas funding inflows and to proceed internet hosting sizeable present foreign-invested resources.

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Here, Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB) has played the pilot agency role of the developmental state, working in an ‘adaptive partnership’ with transnational capital, in response to challenges posed by globalisation (Dent, 2003a). Most other Southeast Asian states had specific agencies charged with managing FDI policy, such as Thailand’s Board of Investment (BOI), that was established in 1959 with the explicit aim of promoting inward FDI in addition to domestic private investment. The general shift to a more promotive FDI approach in the core ASEAN-5 countries coincided with the surge of Japanese outward FDI during the late 1980s and early 1990s, as a consequence of the Yen revaluation policy after the 1985 Plaza Accord.

Techno-industrial capability security may also be served by supply security where, for example, an infusion of foreign technology through inward FDI or other means enhances the latter. Frictions often arise too between different economic security objectives, for example, when inward FDI assists the finance-credit and techno-industrial needs of the economy but simultaneously poses a threat to socio-economic paradigm security interests. We now apply this analytical framework of economic security to study various FDI-related issues in Southeast Asia.

More recently, Southeast Asia’s 1997/98 financial crisis brought significant changes to FDI policy, not least because a new promotive approach was required to attract foreign investor interest in the region as a whole. g. ) that was combined with new incentive measures. In sum, the crisis had shown that engaging globalisation is a dynamic economic and political learning process, and subsequent ‘smarter’ adjustments in FDI policy supposedly reflected this. This chapter makes a political economy analysis of FDI and Southeast Asia, discussing in more detail the issues and developments raised in this introductory section.

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