WEI Y. H. D. Network linkages and local embeddedness of foreign ventures in China: the case of Suzhou municipality, Regional Studies. This paper analyses foreign direct investment (FDI) in Suzhou Municipality, China, known for the Sunan model of development based on township and village enterprises. Suzhou has been remaking its development model by attracting FDI and making itself an innovative...

Countries coming out of crises have found it easier to achieve macroeconomic stability than to create a basic legal, institutional, and regulatory framework, simple and flexible enough, to support the creation of local jobs and entrepreneurship and attract foreign direct investment. Since most countries start reconstruction from a very weak fiscal situation, and spikes of aid are short-lived, g...

In the 13 years preceding 1995, foreign direct investment in the U.S. forest industry increased 54 percent, but the U.S. direct investment in forest industry abroad nearly doubled. The forest industry's share of total foreign investment in the U.S. manufacturing sector declined, but its share of foreign investment abroad increased. During the same period, the U.S. forest industry attracted only...

R ECENT studies (Borensztein and Ostry, 1996; Chow, 1993; and World Bank, 1997) document that the rapid growth in China since the early 1980s is accompanied by productivity increase in labour and capital. Evidence on the improvement in industrial productivity of state and collective sectors (Chen et al., 1988a and 1988b, Jefferson, 1989; and Jefferson, Rawski and Zheng, 1992 and 1994) was contr...