One of the reasons that China's GDP has been growing at a yearly average of ten percent for the past two decades is the large amount of Foreign Direct Investment coming from Hong Kong, Taiwan and the West. ... What are some of the rising developing countries in East Asia that investors are looking at to move their factories and investment into? To answer this, I have selected three countries in East Asia who are close to China in geographical terms and also very similar to China before the Foreign Direct Investment swarmed into China in the 1990s; India, the Philippines, and Vietnam. ... As of...

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Although as a result of Stalin's revolutionary policies investment into agriculture increased massively, productivity did not match what was planned and agricultural output actually declined. ... The underlying motive for Stalin's foreign policy was to provide external security for the internal construction of communism. ...

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A major reason for the rise in economy of China had to do with the ownership, "The reforms also gave greater room for private ownership of production, and these privately held businesses created jobs, developed much-wanted consumer products, earned important hard currency through foreign trade, paid state taxes, and gave the national economy a flexibility and resiliency that it did not have before," (Khan and Hu). ... Li argues for the CCP persevering in China due to two important features: State-led economic process, in which the state has ownership of all the businesses, infrast...

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But the account of Adrian Nastase's Government should be viewed in the light of dif-ferent considerations: Thus, the Romanian foreign policy has produced some positive results, as for instance the lifting of the visa requirement for Romanians traveling to the European Union since January 1, 2002, the invitation received last year in Prague to join the Nato and the visit of the US president George W. ... Viewed against this background, it is not at all surprising that inward investments, which have settled around 1 billion US- dol-lar per annum since 1999, are at a disappointingly low level ...

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