China
Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Development Strategies

This book aims to investigate the potential and actual mechanisms and channels through which openness to foreign trade and foreign direct investment affects economic development and income disparities in China.

Yanqing Jiang (Author)

9781843347620, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 18 August 2014

232 pages
23.3 x 15.6 x 2.1 cm, 0.51 kg

Trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) play a crucial role in shaping China’s development strategies. The development of China’s economy creates strong pressures for continuous restructuring. China therefore explores how trade and FDI affect China’s development strategies regarding the process and pattern of restructuring. The book aims to provide the reader with findings that shed new light on the related issues and problems. The first chapter introduces the topics, and subsequent chapters enter into theoretical discussion and empirical analysis of trade, FDI, and development strategies, followed by a concluding final chapter.

Unbalanced development in China
Foreign trade and its potential effects on development
Foreign direct investment and its potential effects on development
Economic change and restructuring
Dual economy and development strategies
Static and dynamic comparative advantages
Transaction efficiency and patterns of specialization
Economies of scale and Industrial agglomeration
Knowledge-based development strategy and knowledge economy
Environmental factors and sustainable development.

Subject Areas: Investment & securities [KFFM]