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The Evolving Role of Southeast Asia in Global FDI Flows

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This paper traces the evolution of FDI in ASEAN and discusses future prospects for the region as a host - and increasingly home - to FDI. 

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Southeast Asia has long been a focal point for FDI by OECD-based firms. In the 1990s Southeast Asia was collectively among the world's largest recipients of FDI. Attention shifted away from the region following the regional economic collapse of 1997-1998 and the slow recovery that ensued. Nevertheless, policy reforms implemented at the national level after the Asian crisis have made many ASEAN states much more resilient against shocks. Compared to the trends in the 1980s and 1990s, recent FDI flows are increasingly more diversified in terms of host and source countries. This study also looks at the emerging tendency of Southeast Asian countries to become sources of capital, initially on a regional basis but ultimately to the rest of the world.

 

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The Evolving Role of Southeast Asia in Global FDI Flows

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Center for Asian Studies
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Asia is a nerve center for multiple global economic, political and security challenges. The Center for Asian Studies provides documented expertise and a platform for discussion on Asian issues to accompany decision makers and explain and contextualize developments in the region for the sake of a larger public dialogue.

The Center's research is organized along two major axes: relations between Asia's major powers and the rest of the world; and internal economic and social dynamics of Asian countries. The Center's research focuses primarily on China, Japan, India, Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific, but also covers Southeast Asia, the Korean peninsula and the Pacific Islands. 

The Centre for Asian Studies maintains close institutional links with counterpart research institutes in Europe and Asia, and its researchers regularly carry out fieldwork in the region.

The Center organizes closed-door roundtables, expert-level seminars and a number of public events, including an Annual Conference, that welcome experts from Asia, Europe and the United States. The work of Center’s researchers, as well as that of their partners, is regularly published in the Center’s electronic journal Asie.Visions.

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