Category: Markets
China Foreign Direct Investment
China has principal attractions like low-cost labor and an enormous domestic market of more than 1.2 billion consumers. The investment climate has been opened up gradually. In the 1980s, foreigners were restricted to export-oriented joint ventures with Chinese firms. In the early 1990s, they were allowed to manufacture goods for sale in the domestic Chinese market; and by the mid-1990s; the establishment of wholly foreign-owned enterprises was permitted. China’s accession to the WTO forces the government to open up the services sector.
FDI Inflows from August 1991 to December 2005
Find below the countrywise FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) Inflows from August 1991 to December 2005:
World Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), 2006
Faster rising merger and acquisition across the regions over the globe has given a boost to the flow of Foreign Direct Investment in 2006. According to the UNCTAD estimates, FDI inflows in 2006 reached at US $1.2 trillion.
Though developed nations over the world had attracted a huge sum of FDI in 2006, still the flows to developing nations were significant in the same year. FDI inflows to the developed countries increased by 48 percent over the previous year.
Inflow of FDI to various regions in the year 2006 is as follows.
