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Private Versus Public Foreign Investment in Under-Developed Areas

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Economic Development for Latin America

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This paper is intended to examine a policy issue that has been widely discussed in the last decade and its title is worded in the simplified terms in which the issue has been commonly debated. Since the terms private and public are not completely clear and precise when referring to investment, we will begin by discussing their meaning.

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  1. International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Manual (Washington, 1948).

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  2. United Nations, Foreign Capital in Latin America, 1954, p. 5.

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  3. W. Leontief, Studies in the Structure of the American Economy (New York, 1953), p. 492.

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  4. United Nations, Economic Co-operation in a Latin American Development Policy, 1954.

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Howard S. Ellis

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Pazos, F. (1961). Private Versus Public Foreign Investment in Under-Developed Areas. In: Ellis, H.S. (eds) Economic Development for Latin America. International Economic Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08449-4_8

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