Multinationals and Economic Growth in East Asia

Shujiro Urata is Professor of Economics at Waseda University, Japan.Chia Siow Yue is Senior Research Fellow at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs.Fukunari Kimura is Professor in the Faculty of Economics at Keio University, Japan.

• Introduction 1. FDI Flows, their Determinants, and Economic Impacts in East Asia 2. Japanese Manufacturing FDI and International Production and Distribution Networks in East Asia 3. U.S. Firms and East Asian Development in the 1990s 4. Hong Kong as a Source of FDI: Experience and Significance 5. The Role of Inward FDI: A Case Study of Foreign Firms in the Republic of Korea 6. Inward FDI in Singapore: Policy Framework and Economic Impact 7. Firm-Level Productivity and FDI in Taiwan 8. Foreign Investment and Development: Indonesia’s Experience 9. FDI Inflows and Economic Development: The Postcrisis Experience of Malaysia 10. FDI and Economic Development: The Case of the Philippines 11. The Experience of FDI Recipients: The Case of Thailand 12. FDI and Economic Development: The Case of Vietnam 13. The Experience of FDI Recipients: The Case of China 14. Liberalization, FDI Flows, and Economic Development: The Indian Experience in the 1990s