IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/oec/devaaa/123-en.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Outflows of Capital from China

Author

Listed:
  • David Wall

Abstract

While the world has been mesmerised by China’s emergence as a major player in international trade, now being one of the world’s top ten traders, and also as an absorber of international capital (second only to the United States), China’s state-owned and other public sector enterprises have been quietly growing in importance as a source of international capital. Chinese enterprises now have foreign direct investment in virtually every country in the world and across the whole spectrum of economic activities, from merchant banking to fish processing and forestry.This paper reviews the available aggregate data on outflows of capital from China. It also examines such data as is available on individual foreign direct investments. One conclusion which emerges is that while such outflows are growing and being disbursed on a global basis there is a significant concentration in a small number countries, in particular Australia, Canada and the United States, in addition to the strong ... Alors que le monde était fasciné par l’émergence de la Chine en tant qu’acteur majeur dans le commerce international — aujourd’hui l’un des dix principaux pays exportateurs — et “grand consommateur” de capitaux internationaux (au deuxième rang après les États-Unis), les entreprises d’État et les autres entreprises du secteur public sont devenues progressivement une source de financement au niveau international. Ainsi, les firmes chinoises sont présentes par le biais des investissements directs étrangers (IDE) dans la quasi-totalité des pays et dans tous les domaines de l’activité économique (de la banque d’affaires à l’industrie de la pêche et à l’arboriculture).Ce document examine les données agrégées disponibles sur les sorties de capitaux de la Chine et sur les investissements directs étrangers privés (quand ces chiffres existent). Il montre que ces mouvements de capitaux s’accroissent et concernent le monde entier avec toutefois une forte concentration sur un nombre restreint ...

Suggested Citation

  • David Wall, 1997. "Outflows of Capital from China," OECD Development Centre Working Papers 123, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:devaaa:123-en
    DOI: 10.1787/334371153553
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1787/334371153553
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1787/334371153553?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Agata Antkiewicz & John Whalley, 2006. "Recent Chinese Buyout Activity and the Implications for Global Architecture," NBER Working Papers 12072, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Thierry Mayer, 2006. "Policy Coherence for Development : A Background paper on Foreign Direct Investment," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-01065640, HAL.
    3. Hongyi Bi & Sofia Elena Colesca, 2006. "The positive analysis about the condition of Chinese technology gain FDI," Management and Marketing Journal, University of Craiova, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, vol. 4(1), pages 27-32, November.
    4. repec:hal:wpspec:info:hdl:2441/10184 is not listed on IDEAS
    5. repec:spo:wpecon:info:hdl:2441/10184 is not listed on IDEAS
    6. Yin‐Wong Cheung & Xingwang Qian, 2009. "Empirics Of China'S Outward Direct Investment," Pacific Economic Review, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 14(3), pages 312-341, August.
    7. Peter J. Buckley & Adam R. Cross & Hui Tan & Liu Xin & Hinrich Voss, 2008. "Historic and Emergent Trends in Chinese Outward Direct Investment," Management International Review, Springer, vol. 48(6), pages 715-748, December.
    8. Robby Timothy Warioba & Kennedy Arthur Wainyaragania & Bassiratu Ballay Mansaray, 2019. "A Game Theory View of China and USA FDI Outflows: Static Cournot Model of Complete Information," Academic Journal of Economic Studies, Faculty of Finance, Banking and Accountancy Bucharest,"Dimitrie Cantemir" Christian University Bucharest, vol. 5(2), pages 99-107, June.
    9. repec:hal:spmain:info:hdl:2441/10184 is not listed on IDEAS
    10. Filippov, Sergey & Saebi, Tina, 2008. "Europeanisation Strategy of Chinese Companies: Its Perils and Promises," MERIT Working Papers 2008-055, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oec:devaaa:123-en. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/dcoecfr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.