Bargaining Power and Foreign Direct Investment in China: Can 1.3 Billion Consumers Tame the Multinationals?

Elissa Braunstein and Gerald Epstein

Chapter 9 in Labor and the Globalization of Production, 2004, pp 209-248 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Foreign direct investment (FDI) is commonly seen by economists and policy makers as a premier agent, not only of globalization, but also of economic growth and development. In fact, in light of the Asian and South American financial crises, in which portfolio flows proved to be flighty and unreliable, FDI is now treated more than ever as the capital flow of choice. FDI has thus become one of the most sought-after commodities in the global economy, the object of enormous investments of time and resources by policy makers who want to attract it, and the subject of an enormous amount of research and debate concerning its nature and impact.

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Total Factor Productivity; Foreign Investment; World Trade Organization; Bargaining Power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52396-8_9

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9780230523968

DOI: 10.1057/9780230523968_9

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().