Impact of Fdi to China Growth

In macroeconomics, a large portion of discussion is devoted to economic growth. The output of the national economy as a whole represents our average access to goods and services. The long-run growth of the recent past represents everything from increase in access to running water and electricity to development of personal computers and the Internet. In short, it describes the heightened standard of living we enjoy today. Endogenous growth theory postulates that human capital and technology are central to enabling this growth. Human capital describes the stock of knowledge, habits, and social and personality attributes, including creativity and innovative ability. Paul Romer has made significant contributions to developing endogenous growth

The benefits brought by FDI to China are apparent. Economy is influenced by FDI in a number of ways. FDI involves transfer knowledge in the host country, which will create an increase on the existing stock of knowledge through labor training, the transfer of skills, and the transferring of new managerial and organizational experience. Also, it can help local corporations to access to advanced technology by capital accumulation in host countries (Mello, 1999 and Mello, 1997). Furthermore, FDI may allow China to develop in technology and knowledge which are not readily available locally, as a consequent increase productivity growth through the economy (Jose, 2003).

I found this article "Foreign direct investment: Companies rush in with the cash" on the financial times website (www.FT.com) published December 11, 2002 written by John Thornhill. The reason for choosing this article is my personal interest in the Chinese economy and its attractiveness to the foreign investors. Apart from the foreign direct investment this topic has also helped me in understanding the impact of Chinese economy on the global market.

Zhang portrays that the export levels in China rose as a result of the expansion of multinational corporations. This suggests that as exports are a component of aggregate demand as exports rise aggregate demand rises meaning China 's economy is growing in theory. This is supported by Sun (2002) by showing the macroeconomic impacts that FDI induces. He recognises that FDI influences trade flow as he sees that China 's total trade volume relative to GDP rose from 15.2 percent in 1980 to 26.8 percent in 1995. The more coastal you go the more influential the foreign direct investment contribution becomes.. Sun concludes that FDI is a form of trade creating in China. Chen (1999) ran cross-sectional regressions on 29 provinces in different years and confirmed that FDI does positively impact upon both promoting China 's host province total trade flows with the rest of the world and on increasing bilateral trade flows between China and its trade partners. The journal raises the idea of FDI and technological advancement promoting economic growth to be inconclusive. Naughton (1996) highlights a number of factors that limited the impact of FDI on China 's domestic economy. He states that the FDI was distributed provincially especially in Guandong who prosper from investment coming in from Hong Kong. Secondly, up to 1991 most of the output of FIEs was exported meaning that the foreign firms that were present gave no significance; foreign investment also never went above one

Peter J. Buckley, Jeremy Clegg and Chengqi Wang (April 2006), “Inward FDI and host country productivity: evidence from China’s electronics industry”, Transnational Corporations, 15 (1), pp. 13-37 [Online] Available at: http://unctad.org/en/docs/iteiit20061a2_en.pdf (Accessed on 13 November 2012)

We have looked at FDI as the first major in our paper because FDI inflows point to a lot of factors that are right (or wrong) with the economy. In our opinion China remains an attractive FDI destination based purely on the fact that the extent of development possible is still large and the development thus far has been highly skewed, both in terms of demography and geography. Thus China’s capacity to absorb funds remains as high as ever, despite questions being raised about the undervalued currency.

In the 21st century, the competition between diverse countries is increasing extremely intense. With the rise of the third world, as the biggest part of it, China’s influence in economy has become a controversial issue due to the prosperity of economy. To be more specific, China became the second-largest economy in 2011(McCurry,J and Kollewe J,2011).And in recent years, according the data in the bar chart below, China GDP’s is growing rapidly and the growth rate is staying between 7% and 8% before 2015. At the same time, because of the development of economic globalization, the relationship between different countries is getting closer and closer, especially in the world trade. Therefore, although China has already slowed down the step to

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is created when a company buys assets in foreign country and invest in foreign countries property, plant or equipment, and also the participation a joint venture with a foreign local company. In addition, when a company begins FDI, the company will become a multinational company. Foreign direct investment has been spreader significantly in the previous two decades through the world economy. More and more countries and sectors has constitute to become one of the international foreign direct investment network. An important force creating better global economic combination are represented by different types of FDI. (Mody, 2004). In the following discussion, there will be reasons why China remained

This book provided great insight regarding foreign direct investment (FDI) and it ability to stimulate domestic enterprises productivity. It contained specific research conducted in the Chinese economy and in relation to my research topic, identified and explored China receiving the largest FDI influx of developing economies since 1993. Particular interests and strength in this book:

This paper will look in depth at the effect of growth from FDI in India. It will first focus on the theoretical and empirical research regarding FDI and its effect on growth. It will discuss the literature that signifies that federal direct investment did help to grow India’s economy and explore why this is happening. It will mainly explore the federal direct investment outcome on growth and will use statistics on India’s economy to further understand this and prove that FDI is very important in order to help grow an economy. It will take a look at linear regression models that show a positive relationship between FDI and India’s GDP.

The role of productivity in accelerating growth within an economy has been widely recognized by the neo-classical economic theory. The economic growth of a country is the sum of the "growth of capital accumulation, growth of

Yousaf (2008) Analyses of more than 3 decades reveal that FDI has positive relation with imports in short & long-run where as relationship with exports is negative in short & positive in the long-run. FDI is an economic influencer of economy of a country specially developing countries experience accelerated GDP when successful in attracting FDI as in case of Pakistan.

The results have shown positive statistically strong relationship between FDI and market capitalization thus reflecting the complementary role of FDI in the stock market development of Pakistan. Raza et al. (2012) investigated the role of foreign direct investment in developing host country’s stock markets and to examine whether they are related or not. The results disclosed a positive impact of foreign direct investment along with other explanatory variables in developing Stock markets of Pakistan.

Many writers have tried to figure out if there is a direct link between Foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth of an economy in terms of Gross domestic product (GDP) but a reliable procedure hasn’t been found yet.

The research questions of the paper can be explicitly written down as: what is the impact of FDI on Economic Growth in Developing countries? What are the other factors which affect Economic Growth in Developing countries? It is important to mention here that this research addresses developing countries and the external validity of this research to developed countries is not advocated. To