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The relationship between foreign investment and unilateral transfers is a multifaceted one. It is necessary to analyse this relationship because it is one of the most important and least examined relationships determining long-term economic development in Latin America.1 Unilateral resource transfers are a pernicious disease afflicting major segments of the society, economy and political system of the majority of Latin American countries. The pervasive presence of unilateral transfers in developing countries is a critical factor that separates them from the present day developed countries during their corresponding early stages of growth. While the discussion of capital and interest rates formed the foundation of classical economic thinking, it is the origin, size, and distribution of unilateral transfers that implicitly form the, or at least a, major foundation of modern development thinking.
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Mamalakis, M. (1988). Foreign Investment and Unilateral Transfers. In: Jorge, A., Salazar-Carrillo, J. (eds) Foreign Investment, Debt and Economic Growth in Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08311-4_5
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