Open door policy and foreign investment

China’s Open Door Policy towards Foreign Direct Investment: A Game Theoretic Interpretation

Since the Reform and Open Door Policy Initiative launched by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, the Chinese government gradually undertook the open door policy towards foreign direct investment (FDI). First, the government created Special Enterprise Zones (SEZ) in the selected coast cities. A set of preferential treatment is granted to the foreign enterprises invited in SEZs with a restriction on the trans...

origins of armenia’s foreign policy and its foreign policy towards iran

foreign policy takes root from complicated matters. however, this issue may be more truth about armenia. although the new government of armenia is less than 20 years, people of this territory are the first ones who officially accepted christianity. in very past times, these people were a part of great emperors like iran, rome, and byzantium.armenia is regarded as a nation with a privileged hist...

Foreign Direct Investment and Competition Policy

Background A synergy exists between investment liberalisation and the effective application of competition policy. An effective competition policy does not only remove obstacles to entry, but can also facilitate foreign investment flows by providing a predictable legal and regulatory environment that reduces the scope of arbitrary decision-making. Regulation of the business practices of investo...

Identity and Foreign Policy

Sustainable Development and the Open-door Policy in China

We provide an historical survey of Chinese economic reform, a discussion of the current major problems, and measures of the evolution of inequality in China through time, 19791996.We argue that China’s most pressing reform needs now are in the social sphere, specifically the creation of an adequate social security system. The paper concludes with maps showing measures of inequality within each ...