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Foreign Investment and East Asian Economic Development
Author(s) -
Hill Hal
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
asian‐pacific economic literature
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.232
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1467-8411
pISSN - 0818-9935
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8411.1990.tb00176.x
Subject(s) - foreign direct investment , corporation , east asia , business , investment (military) , multinational corporation , international economics , economics , international trade , geography , china , political science , finance , macroeconomics , politics , law , archaeology
This article surveys and anabses the very lure literature on direct foreign investmenl (DFI) in the developing economies of East Asia and the Southwest Pacifi. Commencing with an overview of the MNC (mufcinafional corporation) presence in the region, successive sections a‐amine patterns and performance of major investors, trude‐DFI interrelationships, the impact of DFI on market structure and peflormance, the modalities of MNC entry, and host country policy. The latter, it is argues, is criticully importunt for assessments of the costs and benefits of DFI.