This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models … of agro-ecological potential as a pull factor. In contrast to the literature on foreign investment in general, the …

Over the last decade China's investment in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has increased substantially in volume …, we demonstrate that since mid-2010s China's overseas investment has tilted toward sectors where China has a comparative … advantage in the global markets, a trend similar to that of other major foreign direct investment (FDI) source countries …

. But differences remain. Using a gravity model with a novel measure of distance capturing the role of foreign affiliates …

Investment has grown rapidly in China in recent years, reaching more than 40 percent of GDP. Despite good progress on …

The recent wave of foreign investment in China''s banks and the prospects of further opening of the banking sector … under the WTO agreement suggest that foreign banks are likely to play an increasingly important role in China. This paper … China appears to be well positioned to benefit from further opening of the banking sector to foreign investors …

One of the most significant recent developments in world trade has been the entry of China into the World Trade … Organization (WTO). This paper examines the implications of China''s WTO accession for India''s trade, using both econometrics and … computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. The paper analyzes how India stands to lose or gain from China''s WTO entry in terms …