In this paper we analyze foreign direct investment (FDI) in China from several points of view. After putting the subject into an historical context, we use time series to illustrate the main trends of capital inflows. Our main finding is that the significant growth of FDI inflows since the...

The BRIC countries, and especially China, have significantly increased their share in the world economy. The Chinese model, with its special approach to development, can be seen as an accelerated version of the Japanese one, which has brought enormous success in Japan, and in the Tiger...

Both economic history and theory show us that foreign capital is indispensable in the process of modernization. Countries in Central and Eastern Europe in the late 80s were facing an extremely challenging double task: they had to transform both their political and economic systems. Despite the...