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Investment Conditions and Experience in Four Host Countries

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Comecon investments have encountered varying conditions abroad which have served as major determinants of the geographical pattern observed in Chapter 3 (Tables 3.3. and 3.4). It was seen that these conditions went well beyond considerations of demand and cost alone, to include such factors as intergovernmental relations, the local regulatory environment and popular attitudes in the host countries.

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  1. Canadian barriers of this sort are described in K. Stegemann, Canadian Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade (Montreal: Private Planning Association of Canada: 1973). The Comecon countries have long faced serious obstacles in terms of Western non-tariff barriers, especially with regard to valuation procedures and the related application of anti-dumping rules. See Wilczynski, The Economics and Politics of East-West Trade, op. cit., Ch. 9.

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  2. T. Biersteker, Distortion or Development? Contending Perspectives on the Multinational Corporation (Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, 1978) Ch. 4.

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  3. L. Schaetzl, Industrialization in Nigeria: a Spatial Analysis (Munich: Weltforum Verlag, 1973) p. 27.

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  4. See N. Berger, Industrialization Policies in Nigeria (Munich: Weltforum Verlag, 1975).

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  5. See, for example, S. Clarkson, The Soviet Theory of Development: India and the Third World in Marxist-Leninist Scholarship (University of Toronto Press, 1978).

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  6. S. Surindar, Politics and Society in India (Calcutta: Naya Prakash, 1974)

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  7. and P. Chopra, Before and After the Indo-Soviet Treaty (New Delhi: S. Chand & Co., 1971).

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  8. S. Surindar, ibid. See also T. Bergmann, The Development Models of India, the Soviet Union and China (Amsterdam: Van Gorcum, 1977).

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  9. A. Datar, India’s Economic Relations with the USSR and Eastern Europe (London: Cambridge University Press, 1972) and P. Chaudhuri, ‘East European Aid to India’ in Nayyar, Economic Relations, ibid., pp. 143–62.

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  10. Desai, The Bokaro Steel Plant, a Study of Soviet Economic Assistance (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1972).

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  1. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

    Carl H. McMillan (Professor of Economics)

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McMillan, C.H. (1987). Investment Conditions and Experience in Four Host Countries. In: Multinationals from the Second World. Trade Policy Research Centre. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08839-3_7

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