Shaping Globalization: New Trends in Foreign Direct Investment

In this book, leading experts analyze the most important trends in FDI, from the increasingly active role emerging economies play as investors in Africa to the rising U.S. and Europe suspicions of Chinese takeovers. They also focus on how global challenges including climate change and the aging of societies will act as new drivers of foreign investment, reshaping the patterns of globalization once again.

Contributors include Daniel M. Firger (Environment & Climate Change Group at Linklaters, LLP ), Helmut Hauschild (Bertelsmann Stiftung), Yi Liu (M.A. student, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies), Melanie Lührmann (Royal Holloway College, University of London, and Institute for Fiscal Studies), Peter Nunnenkamp (Kiel Institute for the World Economy), Jonathan D. Ostry (International Monetary Fund), Joachim Pohl (OECD), Helmut Reisen (OECD and Chatham House), Jan Rieländer (OECD), Joachim Winter (Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich) and Ting Xu (Bertelsmann Foundation North America’s Global Project).