Taiwanese Foreign Direct Investment and Trade With Thailand

Bibliographic Data

ID20153005
AuthorsChang Kang‐hung (University of Idaho), Curtis N Thornson (University of Idaho)
Year1994
Volume15
Issue2
Pages112-127
Publication date1994-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSingapore Journal of Tropical Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0129-7619 • E-ISSN: 1467-9493
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9493.1994.tb00056.x
OpenAlexW2129269091
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

Thailand has one of the fastest growing economies in the world, and an important factor contributing to this phenomenal growth is foreign direct investment (FDI). Taiwan's investment in Thailand, led by small and medium sized companies in labour intensive and relatively low technology industries, has increased dramatically since 1986. While Western multinational companies have been interested in using FDI to expand their markets in the host country, Taiwanese FDI — in a pattern similar to Japanese FDI of the 1970s — has been taking place in selected developing countries to lower production costs and export manufactured products to third country markets. Taiwan's exports to Thailand have also shown a marked increase since the Taiwanese government allowed large scale FDI in 1986. Although small at the global scale, Taiwanese investment in Thailand has contributed to an increasingly integrated East Asian economy

Business · China · Developing country · Economic growth · Economics · Foreign direct investment · Geography · Government (linguistics) · International economics · International trade · Investment (military) · Multinational corporation · Political science · Scale (ratio) · Global Trade and Competitiveness · Global trade and economics · International Business and FDI

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