Promoting Foreign Investment in Developing Countries, Princeton (Syllabus)

Course Description 

With the efficacy of foreign aid increasingly called into question and the appetite in developed countries for spending on aid dwindling, much public policy attention is focusing on promoting foreign investment as a path to growth in developing countries. This half term seminar first examines the link between foreign investment and development, then reviews policies and practices designed to promote investment in least developed countries, especially in Africa. The first two weeks of the course provide an overview of the role of foreign investment in development and of the economic context in Africa today. The following four weeks cover specific policies designed to promote foreign investment. In each of those weeks, there will be two sets of two-student presentations reviewing and analyzing a specific policy area.