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Development Economics
International Economics
**zu Wang
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Inward FDI and Host Country Productivity: Evidence from China’s Electronics Industry
There has been a great deal of research examining whether foreign affiliates exhibit higher levels of productivity than local firms (see, for example, Aitken and Harrison, 1999). The premise for this is that t...
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The Impact of Inward Foreign Direct Investment on the Nature and Intensity of Chinese Manufacturing Exports
The contribution of transnational corporations (TNCs) to exports from develo** countries has long been a point of debate. Host countries often complain that TNCs export too little, and the findings in some s...
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The Impact of Foreign Ownership, Local Ownership and Industry Characteristics on Spillover Benefits from Foreign Direct Investment in China
The past two decades have witnessed a striking transformation in the Chinese economy: from a centrally planned to an essentially market-oriented system, and away from an inward-orientated industrialisation str...
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The Chinese View: Reflection of the Long-Term Experiences of Aid Receiving and Giving
China has been involved in foreign aid for over 50 years, and is increasing its influential power as a provider of aid. Since the 1960s, China has increasingly expanded the scale and coverage of foreign aid by...
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Literature on China’s OFDI
China’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) is a new phenomenon, and studies related on this issue are largely underdeveloped. Existing descriptive and empirical studies generally conclude that China’s OF...
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Policy Implications and Conclusions
This book deals with a series of important issues on China’s OFDI. The case studies, Chinalco and Geely, are presented to demonstrate the difficulty of and experiences about Chinese MNCs to become global. In t...
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Introduction
China has achieved great economic success since the launch of the ‘Open Door’ policy in 1979. Up to 2009, China’s annual average growth rate of gross domestic product (GDP) was 9.9 per cent, which is around fo...
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Does China’s OFDI Displace OECD’s OFDI?
In the foregoing two chapters, we have studied China’s outward FDI (OFDI) by examining the underlying motivations and the locational determinants in a static framework, and by investigating the dynamic adjustm...
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Fuels for the Future? The Emerging Architecture in China’s Liquid Biofuels Market
Alternative transport fuels — i.e. hydrogen, natural gas, and liquid biofuels — are seen as options to help the transport sector, in the broadest sense, to decrease its dependency on oil and to reduce its nega...
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OFDI and Technology-seeking Strategy: A Case Study of Geely’s Acquisition of Volvo
One important motivation of outward foreign direct investments from a less advanced country such as China is technology seeking. This chapter studies the development of China’s automotive industry in the past ...
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Dynamic Relationship between China’s IFDI and OFDI
The previous chapter examines the underlying motivations and the locational determinants of China’s outward FDI (OFDI). Like the majority of existing empirical studies on China’s OFDI, the previous chapter foc...
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China’s OFDI and Resource-seeking Strategy: A Case Study on Chinalco and Rio-Tinto
The failed advance of Chinalco on Rio-Tinto and the quick success of Minmetals’ acquisition of Oz Minerals within a week in June 2009 represented China’s persistent thirst for natural resources such as iron or...
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Location, Resources and Technology of China’s OFDI
China has been acknowledged as an important recipient of inward foreign direct investment (IFDI) since the ‘open-door’ policy was launched in 1979. However, the rapid integration of China into the world econom...
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Introduction
In the process of China’s market-oriented reforms, the private sector is undoubtedly an important driving force for regional economic development and urbanization. Urbanization is also an important carrier for .....
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The Transformation/Upgrading of the Private Sector and the Road of Ecological Urbanization
Chinese development is facing the dual pressures of environment deterioration and resources exhaustion, the extensive economic growth model has to be abandoned, and the intensive development road of low energy...
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The Role of Public Finance in Pushing Forward the New Type of Urbanization
City is an important spatial carrier for economic activities. In the past more than 30 years, urbanization has greatly promoted China’s economic development. It is certain that urbanization is and will stay th...
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Standardizing the Financial System and Stimulating the Regional Economic Development
World economic recession caused by the subprime mortgage crisis is still continuing. China, as an emerging market economy, has also been affected. Although its main financial sectors such as banking, securitie...
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Impacts of Natural Disasters and Disaster Risk Management in China: The Case of China’s Experience in the Wenchuan Earthquake
Due to complicated climatic and geographic conditions, China remains severely vulnerable to frequent, wide-scale natural disasters. We analyzed the impact of natural disasters on human security, agriculture sa...
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Subsidiary Survival of Multinational Enterprises in China: An Analysis of Nordic Firms
Internationalisation of multinational enterprises (MNEs) has received considerable attention in the international business (IB) literature in the past decades. Survival of MNEs’ subsidiaries is of great intere...
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Private Sector Development and China’s Regional Urbanization: A Survey
The rapid development of the private sector is a significant force for promoting Chinese market development and urbanization. According to statistics, urbanization level is naturally high in the cities and reg...
