Using detailed cross-section data for 1995, non-Chinese MNEs are found to generate technological and international market access spillover benefits for Chines firms, while overseas Chinese investors confer only market access benefits. State-owned enterprises reap no benefits, and indeed receive...

This article investigates for China the proposition that economic and technological conditions in a host country modify the relationship of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) with growth. Data are employed for China as a whole, and for 29 provinces in sub-samples, for 1989-1999. Host country...