Foreign Direct Investment Between Asian Developing Countries and the EU Member States: The Role of Integration Processes

• Authors: Janina Witkowska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article discusses the conditions surrounding the flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) between the developing countries of Asia (East Asia, South-East Asia, Southern Asia, and Western Asia) and the countries with membership in the European Union (EU), including the so-called ‘new’ Member States (EU12). At the intra-regional and inter-regional levels, the flow is especially affected by the world economic crisis, which has effected changes in the positions of the analyzed countries on a global scale. The integration processes taking place in the EU also significantly affect the intensity of FDI flow within the group, while the processes taking place in the developing countries of Asia are not yet sufficiently enough advanced to significantly affect the flow of FDI. Inter-regional FDI flows take place between the subject regions and sub-regions. The observed phenomenon of emerging Asian net exporters of capital in the form of FDI to the European Union may be strengthened by the process of Asian integration. For the new EU Member States the developing Asian countries may constitute an alternative source of capital in the crisis conditions.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 5-23

Dates

published

2013-06-01

online

2013-08-17

Contributors

author

Janina Witkowska

• Full Professor at the University of Łódź, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, Department of World Economy and European Integration

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/cer-2013-0009