Developing inland China : do heterogeneous coastal foreign direct investments and exports help?

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2013-12

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ARTNeT, United Nations ESCAP

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By applying panel estimation models to Chinese provincial level data for 1993-2008, this paper examines impacts of China’s coastal foreign direct investment (FDI) and exports, on its inland regions. Results show that coastal FDI has overall positive interregional impacts, while coastal exports do not. Cooperative joint ventures generate positive impacts, but little impact is produced by wholly foreign-funded enterprises. In the case of equity joint ventures, there may even be negative impacts. The interregional impacts do not exhibit any differences across FDI origins or exporters’ ownership status.

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FOREIGN INVESTMENT, CAPITAL MOVEMENTS, MULTI-NATIONAL ENTERPRISE, CHINA, OWNERSHIP, ECONOMIC GROWTH, INDUSTRIAL CONCENTRATION, COASTS, EXPORTS, PROTECTIONISM, INLAND ECONOMIES, ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS

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