In late 2008, as financial markets were crashing, the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment launched the Columbia FDI Perspectives. The first Perspective, entitled “The FDI recession has begun,” correctly forecast an FDI recession in the following year. From that first...

The authors explore the China-side determinants of China's industrial relocation to sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting several hurdles to substantial translocation that would jump start local economic development.

This second edition of this publication provides an overview of important contemporary issues relating to foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational enterprises for all those who are interested in this subject, but are not always in a position to follow diverse perspectives and what is...

A number of studies have recently explored China’s growing - yet still nascent - manufacturing investments in sub-Saharan Africa, which the World Bank hopes to see further expanded so as to ignite industrialization. These studies have looked mainly at the Africa-side situation (i.e., what is...

In its quest for oil and minerals, China has developed increasingly close economic relations with Africa through investment and aid. The World Bank recently called upon China to transplant labor-intensive factories onto the continent. This raises the question of whether such an industrial...