Governments the world over offer significant inducements to attract inward investment, motivated by the expectation of … productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

countries, this has not been the case for manufacturing firms operating in China and in low-income countries. If international …

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …

It is generally believed that Japan's cost-oriented and export-oriented direct investment has introduced a bilateral … intra-industry trade pattern in ChinaJapan trade through which China imports accessories from Japan, processes them and … exports the product to Japan. Based on investment and trade data in the machinery sector, this paper discusses whether Japan …

Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) into China is analysed using an FDI model that accounts for different modes of … with an increase in FDI by reducing uncertainty in the investment environment. The performance of Japanese FDI into China … 1988 and Chinas WTO accession in 2001 were events that helped reduce uncertainty in bilateral investment, with the latter …

increasing the rate of economic growth. Little attention, however, has been devoted to confirm or reject this link for China …

for Chinese domestic industries. At present, China has stepped into the new phase of industrial clusters upgrading …

China may be seeking to take over European economies. Quite naturally these concerns have led to repeated calls that action … regulating inbound foreign investment (including from China) in the EU. Such an approach may help guard against the risk of a … of existing mechanisms such as competition policy. Also, pushing for the negotiation of a China-EU BIT is certainly a …