This book assesses the factors which attract foreign investors to the ASEAN economies, why and how national governments attempt to actively attract FDI and what role the ASEAN Secretariat could play in order to reduce the adverse effects of the competition for FDI among its member states. The econometric study finds that rule-based attraction policies are more effective to attract FDI than incentive-based attraction policies. Country case studies analyze the investment attraction policies of five major ASEAN economies in more analytical depth. It is argued that the competition for FDI has...
This book assesses the factors which attract foreign investors to the ASEAN economies, why and how national governments attempt to actively attract FD...
