The nature and determinants of export-oriented direct foreign investment in a developing country: A case study of Taiwan

1975 ◽  
Vol 111 (3) ◽  
pp. 505-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Riedel
Keyword(s):  
Developing Country ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Direct Foreign Investment

Turning Points in International Labor Migration: A Case Study of Thailand

1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pracha Vasuprasat
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Direct Foreign Investment ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Commodity Export ◽  
Gulf Crisis ◽  
Market Needs

This article describes the dynamics of the structural transformation of the Thai economy, labor migration and direct foreign investment and proposes an econometric model to explain the migration phenomenon. Though migration shifts have been significantly influenced by political factors such as the Gulf crisis and tensions with Saudi Arabia, economic factors such as the Thai government's liberalization of markets and the expansion of trade and direct foreign investment have contributed to changes in labor market needs. The economic conditions for a shift from net exporter to net importer of labor are posited in the model. The empirical results reveal a turning point in labor migration from Thailand and also confirm the contribution of commodity export in place of labor export in creating employment and income.

White-Collar Foreign Workers in Taiwan

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 569-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilawan Kanjanapan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
American English ◽  
Direct Foreign Investment ◽  
White Collar ◽  
The United States ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Assisted Migration ◽  
Yearly Average

This paper discusses capital-assisted and non-capital-assisted migration to Taiwan. Despite a yearly average of US$915 million in direct foreign investment (DFI) in Taiwan in the 1980s, the number of professional transient migrants in Taiwan is not large, totaling only 960 persons in 1988. As sources of both DFI and capital-assisted migration, Japan ranked highest, followed by the United States and Europe. Foreign professionals sent by transnational corporations are likely to be found in capital and technology intensive industries, as well as trade and the services. Among non-capital-assisted migrants, American English teachers are highlighted with results of a case study on their characteristics, work experience and adjustment.

scholarly journals Chili, un modèle périphérique d'insertion internationale? (Note)

2005 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-25
Author(s):  
Raúl Bernal-Meza
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Direct Foreign Investment ◽  
Economic Relationships ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Past ◽  
Comparative Advantages ◽  
New Strategy

In the past few years, Chile has been noted as a model of international economic insertion of a developing country. Openness, de-regulation, exports growth, an important achievement in capturing direct foreign investment and a sustained growth, have been the elements on which the new strategy of searching for an integration with the large regional groups of trade has been supported. In the present study, we analyse the characteristics of the Chilean economy and the features that have remarked Us international insertion, in order to find the comparative advantages and disadvantages of an integration to the NAFTA and/or the MERCOSUR, providing antecedents on its foreign policy and its international economic relationships.

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