Can Russia Become a 'Green Investor' in Southern Africa?

Gerasimchuk, Ivetta

Abstract

Can Russia Become a 'Green Investor' in Southern Africa?

Ivetta Gerasimchuk

International Institute for Sustainable Development

January 20, 2009

ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCE AND SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS IN RUSSIA, LEGAL AND PRACTICAL TRENDS, Wybe Th. Douma, Fiona M. Mucklow, eds., Cambridge: T.M.C. Asser Institute/Cambridge University Press, 2010

Abstract:
This chapter addresses Russian environmental finance from a different angle than most of the chapters in this book. The discussion focuses on how Russian companies and Russia, generally, engage in outward investment activity within the Southern African countries.

This chapter is based on the author's report 'Re-Think Russian Investment in Southern Africa' (full text downloadable at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1592930)

Keywords: Russia, FDI, investment, Southern Africa, SADC, sustainable development, leapfrogging development, natural resources

JEL Classification: Q32, P33, O55, Q56

working papers series

Date posted: April 21, 2010 ; Last revised: April 23, 2010

Suggested Citation

Gerasimchuk, Ivetta, Can Russia Become a 'Green Investor' in Southern Africa? (January 20, 2009). ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCE AND SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS IN RUSSIA, LEGAL AND PRACTICAL TRENDS, Wybe Th. Douma, Fiona M. Mucklow, eds., Cambridge: T.M.C. Asser Institute/Cambridge University Press, 2010. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1593214

Contact Information

Ivetta Gerasimchuk (Contact Author)

International Institute for Sustainable Development ( email )

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