Tricks and TRIPS: Foreign Investment and Knowledge Transfer Revisited
Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Lecture, Castries, St. Lucia, January 2002.
Revisits Sir Arthur Lewis’s views on foreign investment and technology transfer propounded in his celebrated 1950 article on West Indian industrialisation, in which he expressed confidence that local businessmen would learn the ‘tricks of the trade’ from foreign investors. Research undertaken n the 1970s suggests limited [...]
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