Pre-1914 British Foreign Investment: Recipients and Composition

Irving Stone
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Chapter 1 in The Global Export of Capital from Great Britain, 1865–1914, 1999, pp 3-6 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Great Britain was by all measures the world’s preeminent capital exporter during the half-century preceding the First World War, not only in the volume of foreign investment but also in the industrial and geographical diversity of its capital outflows.1

Keywords: Foreign Investment; Colonial Government; Capital Outflow; London Stock Exchange; Conduct Negotiation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-333-98377-5_1

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