A portrait of China's new economic passion toward Europe. For years China's international investment interests focused on a search for natural resources in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Recently China's focus has shifted to Europe as well as the United States, and to new fields as diverse as...

The rapid changes in the economic and political climate of the Balkan and the Black Sea countries demand continuous adjustments in the mixture of the implemented economic policy in the area. Under this framework, there is a special interest to investigate the impact of the global economic...

Over the past decade, foreign direct investment (FDI) around the world has nearly tripled, and with this surge have come dramatic shifts in FDI flows. In Foreign Direct Investment, distinguished economists look at changes in FDI, including historical trends, specific country experiences,...

Intro -- Introduction -- Part I. International Competitiveness -- U.S. International Competitiveness in a Changing Global Economy -- 1. What Do We Mean by Competitiveness? -- 2. Indicators of U.S. Economic Performance -- 2.1 Aggregate Trade Balances -- 2.2 Technology and Trade -- 2.3 Investments...

In this book, Nagesh Kumar and expert contributors examine and explain the emerging patterns in international technology transfers and foreign direct investment flows (FDIs) over the past two decades. They analyse the trends in internationalization of corporate activity in individual source...

This work examines contemporary global economic metrics, showing the influence of the globalization paradigm, and explores how that paradigm has been driven by the enlightened confluence of technology, innovation, trade, and FDI.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview -- Chapter 2 The Impact of Inward FDI on Host Countries: Why Such Different Answers? -- Chapter 3 Disentangling FDI Spillover Effects: What Do Firm Perceptions Tell Us? -- Chapter 4 Foreign Direct Investment and Externalities:...

Conceptualizing labour and capital mobilities in Asia / Preet S. Aulakh and Philip Kelly -- Offshore spaces, multi-scalar bordering processes and the segmented mobilities of capital and labour in Asia / Jana M. Kleibert -- Japanese MNCs and the control of overseas direct investments :...