Publisher's Synopsis
This examination of export-led industrialization fuelled by foreign investment and technology is based on a case-study of the maquila industry which is of importance to Mexico's overall development strategy as well as to the US economy.;This book is part of a larger project on the developmental effects (or lack of them) of transnational capital in the Third World which analyzes the processes and dynamics at work in a group of export-orientated assembly industries. They are the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in China, just across the border from Hong Kong; the Shannon free zone in the midwest region of Ireland; and the Egyptian free zones. These studies work out a set of criteria against which the developmental effects of foreign investment in these zones could be measured and tries to assess their value.
