Abstract
Modeling of Foreign Direct Investment's Contribution to Regional Development Track: Census and Geodemographics Author(s): Stephen Balogh What is the spatial relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the location of militant ethnic minorities? Can we show conclusively, at least in the case of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, a vulnerable economy in transition, that FDI spatially privileges the geographic strongholds of the charter group (the majority ethnicity) to the relative or complete exclusion of geographic strongholds of ethnic minorities? These related research questions can provide a good understanding of how the spatially uneven application of FDI reinforces socioeconomic polarization and political risk in bi- or multinational sovereign states. Groups excluded from accessing and benefiting from FDI are compromised economically and, by implication, disempowered. This project uses GIS to visualize the relevant data, test the research hypotheses, query databases at different levels of geography, and publish the results in a user-friendly application. Stephen Balogh University of Redlands MS GIS Program P.O. Box 3080 Redlands , CA 92373 US Phone: 909-335-5128 E-mail: stephen_balogh@redlands.edu |
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