This contribution attempts to shed light on the rise of direct investment flows from ‘thirdworld’ to ‘first-world’ countries and aims to explain why and how third world companies are currently investing in advanced economies. To analyze this trend, we chose to focus on China as it has...

In this study we analyse the role of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) established by the Kyoto Protocol in channelling foreign technology to China. The descriptive analysis investigates the sources and the determinants of foreign technology transfer based on the examination of 1,355...

The spectacular surge in Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) has been reinforced by China’s accession to the WTO (2001). The understanding of their determinants remains a key theoretical question, in particular whether they confirm the standard conceptual framework -...