¿Es la inversión extranjera directa manufacturera un motor de desarrollo económico? reflexiones a partir del análisis de dos casos aparentemente diferentes

Abstract

u sing the analysis of two apparently very different cases, a Taiwanese maquiladora subsidiary of the garment industry in Nicaragua and s ony’s manufacturing subsidiary in w ales, we try to verify the existence of the benefits attributed by many scholars to manufacturing foreign direct investment in the peripheral economies. The invalidating similarities found in the two cases cast doubts upon the supposedly universal contribution of this investment to the long-term development potential of the host economy.