absorbing much of the world's supply, especially in the late 1980s, and then reverted to its earlier net supplier role. Direct …

restate bilateral investment positions to better reflect the true financial linkages connecting countries around the world. We … nearly 600 billion dollars, while China's official net creditor position to the rest of the world is overstated by about 50 …

impact of FDI in promoting the growth of host country exports and linkages to the outside world is clearer. The major role of … transfer of knowledge of world markets and of ways of fitting into worldwide production networks, not visible in standard …

international capital flows, and the resulting production has increased as a share of world output, but it was still only about 8 … world, accounting for about half of the world's stock in 1960. Since then, other countries have become major direct … investors. The U.S. share is now less than a quarter of the world total and the United States has become a major recipient of …

over the last two decades, but it was still, in 1990, only about 7 percent of world output. The share was higher, at 15 …,' which are about 60 percent of world output. Given all the attention that 'globalization' has received from scholars …