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China’s foreign direct investment (FDI) has been one of the most outstanding socioeconomic and development events in the last 50 years, increasing from levels below 1% of global FDI during the 1980s to 8.25% in 2010 and 15.51% in 2020; China’s share over global FDI (10.50% during 2017-2021) has been second only to the United States (17.67%).
The goal of the book is to examine Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) overseas foreign direct investment (OFDI) to China, including macro, meso, and micro perspectives. Rather surprisingly these type of investment flows to China have not received much attention yet, even less so from a historical perspective that includes country-level specificities. Based on chapters on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico and Peru, the book examines the macroeconomic and historical features of their OFDI to China and including several firm-level case studies. While Chinese OFDI to LAC have been examined at least for a decade, particularly at the Academic Network for Latin America and the Caribbean on China, there is no structured analysis on LAC’s OFDI to China until today.