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Introduction

In: Foreign Direct Investment in Transitional Economies

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  • Michael Du Pont

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Purpose And Scope Since the late 1970s, foreign direct investment (FDI) in China and in Centraland Eastern Europe has attracted considerable attention from both the business and academic worlds. However, very little systematic research has so far been carried out to examine the trends and determinants of FDI in these transitionalecon omies. Most literature published on FDI trends in Eastern Europe and China is of a rather generalnature. There is growing concern that the traditionaltheori es of investment have largely been ineffective in explaining recent trends in the flow of FDI, especially with regard to recent changes in these and other transitional economies. No longer can FDI be analysed in the classical manner as a flow of extra capital into a country within which all else is held constant, with the static effects evaluated according to the tenets of orthodox marginalproducti vity analysis (Mac-Dougall, 1960: 35).

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  • Michael Du Pont, 2000. "Introduction," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Foreign Direct Investment in Transitional Economies, chapter 1, pages 1-6, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-333-97752-1_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780333977521_1
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