The purpose of this paper is to evaluate to which degree China is climbing up the technology ladder and increasing its domestic content in high tech industry. More specifically, we will assess whether China has increased its share in world trade of high tech goods and, at the same time,...

The paper analyses the development strategy adopted In China after 1978. It is shown that it has not followed a pre-determined plan but, on the contrary has emerged as a result of political shocks in the core of the CCP and of other factors related to history and geography

Basically, foreign direct investments (FDI) determinants may be referred to firms and country characteristics - push factors - or to locational factors - pull factors. Most of theoretical literature relative to multinational enterprises in the last forty years, has emphasized firms advantages,...

O artigo discute as principais causas do forte crescimento da economia chinesa nos últimos 27 anos. Apesar de este ser um fato amplamente conhecido, menos compreendidas, no entanto, são as causas desse processo, ou, pelo menos, suas características e elementos definidores mais importantes....