Evaluación de las políticas de atracción de IEDel caso del sector eléctrico centroamericano

Resumen

Policies to attract FDI have changed significantly during the 80’s. The primary objective of this change was developing in the countries the most favourable conditions to attract FDI. For this reason, one of the most innovative feature of these new policies is the liberalization and privatization of the services. This is especially important because while offshoring processes were present in industrial activities since the end of the Second World War, it was not the case of the services sector. Therefore, policies to attract FDI led to the international expansion of a few firms, particularly from America and Europe. The objective of this paper is to analyze the results of these policies in the countries receiving the FDI, especially in the case of developing countries, because FDI was considered to play an important role in their development strategy. © 2007, Universidad de Huelva. All rights reserved.