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 …

geographical locations for production. While the share of the U.S. in world exports of manufactures fellmore than 40 per cent … chemicals and smallest for transport equipment. The rise in the share of world exports accounted for by U.S.multinational firms …