Foreign Direct Investment and Sustainable Industrial Development

Zarsky, Lyuba

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“…Foreign companies employ better management practices and up-to-date technologies that result in a relatively clean environment in the host countries [19]. List and Co [20] suggest that FDI helps promote the energy efficiency of the host countries and decrease pollution emissions.…”

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Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Green Growth? Evidence from China’s Experience

Yue

Yang

2016

Sustainability

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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) not only affects the economic growth but also affects the environmental protection of the host country. With China's background of pursuing green growth, we need to consider the performance of FDI from the economic and environmental benefit aspects. On this basis, using slacks-based measure directional distance function (SBMDDF) to build up green growth efficiency, economic efficiency and environmental efficiency indexes, empirical research on FDI in 104 Chinese cities from 2004 to 2011 has shown that: (1) Different cities have differences in their green growth efficiency. Shenzhen city is always efficient in green economic growth. (2) Overall, FDI is positive on Chinese cities' green growth. (3) When the green growth efficiency is broken down into economic efficiency and environmental efficiency, FDI promotes China's economic green growth through both environmental benefits and economic benefits. (4) The effect of FDI differs in different sectors. FDI in the emission-intensive sector promotes green efficiency mainly through the improvement of economic efficiency. FDI in the non-emission-intensive sector promotes economic efficiency, environmental efficiency and green efficiency.

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Section: Literature Overviewmentioning

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Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Green Growth? Evidence from China’s Experience

Yue

Yang

2016

Sustainability

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“…Nonetheless, this has unfortunately not occurred as job growth has so far been slow, along with the overall lower than expected economic growth. For example, according to Zarsky and Gallagher (2004), from 1994 to 2002 around 6.5 million people entered the Mexican workforce and yet only 4.4 million new jobs were created during the same period, leaving over 2 million people without employment. The hope held by Mexican and American policy-makers that considerable and sufficient economic and job growth could be generated through the expansion of trade and investment encouraged by the ratification of NAFTA has been empirically unfounded.…”

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“…Trade and investment after NAFTA have been unable to foster sufficient, far-reaching and sustained growth to create enough jobs and thus considerably reduce extreme poverty in the country; or as Zarsky and Gallagher (2004) state: "The failure of the manufacturing sector to be an engine for growth means that the FDI-led strategy did little to reduce Mexico's large income and asset gap between rich and poor" ("Jobs and Migration"). As a result of the insufficient job growth, many of Mexico's new jobs since 1994 are informal jobs which tend to pay less than formal ones and are generally of poor quality.…”

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Poverty and Inequality in Mexico after NAFTA: Challenges, Setbacks and Implications

Alvarado

2008

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This article analyzes the progress obtained in diminishing poverty and inequality in Mexico during the post-NAFTA years ranging from 1994 to 2007, and how it pertains to the broad critical debate surrounding poverty-gap reduction in the context of regional and international economic integration and trade liberalization. Specifically, the article discusses the evolution of Mexican rural and urban poverty, income and regional disparities, as well as the role of government spending after the enactment of NAFTA and within the framework of economic liberalization marked by expanded international trade and investment, particularly with the United States.

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“…Notably, Mexico's extensive 'maquiladora' factories in the north of the country, once widely slated as containing the potential to industrialise the local economies they were based in, almost all failed to develop links with existing local SMEs or help establish new SMEs. Rather than prodding the maquiladora factories to begin to source locally, the neoliberal trade regime strongly encouraged them to make use of almost cost-free importation of raw materials and intermediate goods (see Zarsky/Gallagher 2004).…”

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The Age of Microfinance: Destroying Latin American Economies from the Bottom Up

Bateman

2013

SSRN Journal

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Foreign Direct Investment and Sustainable Industrial Development

Cited by 47 publications

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Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Green Growth? Evidence from China’s Experience

Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Green Growth? Evidence from China’s Experience

Poverty and Inequality in Mexico after NAFTA: Challenges, Setbacks and Implications

The Age of Microfinance: Destroying Latin American Economies from the Bottom Up

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