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January 11, 2008
Developing Multinationals
The Economist offers an extensive overview of the rapidly growing numbers of multinationals going global from China, India, Brazil, and other developing economies. The amount of investment these companies are making globally is getting substantial:
By 2006 foreign direct investment (including mergers and acquisitions) from developing economies had reached $174 billion, 14% of the world's total, giving such countries a 13% share (worth $1.6 trillion) of the stock of global FDI. In 1990 emerging economies accounted for just 5% of the flow . . . and 8% of the stock. Their slice of global cross-border M&A has been climbing. It reached 14% in value terms in 2006 . . . That year they spent $123 billion in more than 1,000 cross-border deals.
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