 In the current issue of
Governance,
Vivek Srivastava reviews
Working with the Grain by
Brian Levy. "Levy's central objective of the book is to stake out the middle ground between 'one-size-fits-all' best practice approaches on the one hand and 'every country is unique' on the other hand . . . Levy's primary contribution is in providing a relatively simple, elegant, and appealing characterization of 'context.' He makes a reasonably convincing case for the framework with the cases he presents."
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And
Judith Clifton reviews
Foreign and Direct Investment in Argentina: The Politics of Privatized Infrastructure by
Alison E. Post. "Post comes up with a surprising finding: Foreign-dominated investment was four times more likely to end up with a prematurely canceled contract than investments dominated by a domestic investor. Developing country investors enjoyed an organizational structure better suited to take on a more patient, culturally sensitive,and longer-term investment than their international counterparts."
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