OECD Development Centre Working Papers
The OECD Development Centre links OECD members with developing and emerging economies and fosters debate and discussion to seek creative policy solutions to emerging global issues and development challenges. This series of working papers is intended to disseminate the OECD Development Centre’s research findings rapidly among specialists in the field concerned. These papers are generally available in the original English or French, with a summary in the other language.
- ISSN: 18151949 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/18151949
Developing Country Multinationals
South-South Investment Comes of Age
Large Western corporations have long invested overseas to penetrate markets, seek
resources, and increase efficiency. After the explosion of inward FDI to the South in the 1990s, it
is now the turn of the largest companies from emerging and transition economies, including the
so-called BRICs, to intensify their outward FDI through mergers and acquisitions as well as
greenfield investments. The contours of this emerging phenomenon are described in this paper,
with a focus on the quantification of the weight of South-South FDI flows and their
developmental consequences.
JEL:
F23: International Economics / International Factor Movements and International Business / Multinational Firms; International Business;
L21: Industrial Organization / Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior / Business Objectives of the Firm;
F02: International Economics / General / International Economic Order and Integration
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