Rethinking investment incentives : trends and policy options / Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann, Perrine Toledano, Lise Johnson, and Lisa Sachs, editors.
Tavares, Ana Teresa, editor.; Toledano, Perrine editor.
2016
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Rethinking investment incentives : trends and policy options / Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann, Perrine Toledano, Lise Johnson, and Lisa Sachs, editors.
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Call Number
HG4521 .R477 2016
ISBN
9780231172981 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0231172982 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780231541640 (ebook)
Description
viii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)930485953
Summary
Governments often use direct subsidies or tax credits to encourage investment and promote economic growth and other development objectives. Properly designed and implemented, these incentives can advance a wide range of policy objectives (increasing employment, promoting sustainability, and reducing inequality). Yet since design and implementation are complicated, incentives have been associated with rent-seeking and wasteful public spending. This collection illustrates the different types and uses of these initiatives worldwide and examines the institutional steps that extend their value. By combining economic analysis with development impacts, regulatory issues, and policy options, these essays show not only how to increase the mobility of capital so that cities, states, nations, and regions can better attract, direct, and retain investments but also how to craft policy and compromise to ensure incentives endure.-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Tavares, Ana Teresa, editor.
Toledano, Perrine editor.
Introduction / Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann, Lisa Sachs, Lise Johnson, and Perrine Toledano
Types of investment incentives / Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann
Definitions, motivations and locational determinants of foreign direct investment / Sarianna M. Lundan
The use of investment incentives : the cases of r & d related incentives and international investment agreements / Christian Bellak and Markus Leibrecht
Incentives in the EU / Phillipe Gugler
Incentives in the United States / Charles Krakoff and Chris Steele
Tax incentives around the world / Sebastian James
A holistic approach to investment incentives / Louis Brennan and Frances Ruane
Investment incentives for sustainable development / James Zhan and Joachim Karl
Cost-benefit analysis of investment incentives / Ellen Harpel
Regulation of investment incentives : national and subnational efforts to regulate competition for investment through the use of incentives / Kenneth P. Thomas
Regulation of investment incentives : instrument at an international/supranational level / Lise Johnson
Conclusions: outstanding issues on incentive policies design and implementation / Lise Johnson, Perrine Toledano, Lisa Sachs, and Ana Teresa Tavares Lehmann
Notes
Index.

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