Chinese foreign direct investment: What’s happening behind the headlines?

While China is now firmly established as one of the world’s most important destinations for inward FDI, outward FDI by Chinese companies has also taken off spectacularly. Outflows doubled from 2007 to 2008 and expanded fourteen-fold between 2003 and 2008.

Originally published on July 16 2010 in http://www.voxeu.org/article/chinese-foreign-direct-investment-whats-happening-behind-headlines