ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the economic dimensions of globalization and particularly flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the export manufacturing sector. It provides a brief description of the regional structure of the Philippine economy. The chapter explores the connections between globalized development and the spatial pattern. It also provides an explanation for finer spatial patterns, based on government policies, infrastructure provision, corporate strategies, and the local political economy of foreign investment. The chapter outlines four contributing factors that seem to lie behind the differential imprint of globalized development on the Philippine landscape: government policy, infrastructure provision, corporate requirements, and local politics. It also focuses on Cavite and considers the ways in which national development strategies are mediated at smaller scales. Only in 1997 did the National Statistical Coordination Board establish a Foreign Investment Information System to compile authoritative data on FDI.
