According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), in 2012 the U.S. tops the list of the total amount of inward and outward foreign direct investment flows, amounting to US$167.62 billion, while China was second with $121.08 billion, and Hong Kong third with $74.584 billion (UNCTAD 2013).
Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim majority country was, until recently, largely inward and suspicious of foreign, particular Western intervention.
It has a vast pool of surplus labour in the countryside, and masses of capital thanks to unusually high domestic saving and inward foreign direct investment.
Despite the worldwide presence of companies such as Toyota, Honda, Canon and Sony, Japan's integration into the world economy is surprisingly weak.Japan has the lowest levels of import penetration, inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign workers in the OECD (see chart 8).
Most likely, the Chinese future "global citizens," as the government mantra goes will have to look inward, examining their treatment of native and foreign minorities alike.
The election of a U.S. president who takes an inward and sometimes contradictory approach to foreign policy has already handed China major geopolitical wins, analysts say. .
Once the darling of the International Monetary Fund and foreign investors, Thailand is turning inward under the weight of its troubles.
Isolationism tends to be pessimistic (we will get it wrong, we will make it worse) and amoral (it is none of our business unless it threatens us directly) and inward-looking (foreign aid is a waste of money better spent at home).
Yet in about as much time as it takes to say "International Monetary Fund", Indians now face a flurry of reform intended to transform its inward-looking, control-bound economy into one favouring free markets and foreign trade.
The empirical analysis consists of descriptive statistics, which makes use of the LogINT database, monitoring inward logistics foreign direct investments (FDI) in Italy in 2000 2008, and of additional information on the foreign logistics MNE's integration strategies.
