The balance of economic opportunities will shift towards developed economies in 2014.
Our panel data analysis of Chinese EMEs shows that OFDI has a positive effect on innovation performance of Chinese EMEs' subsidiaries and that this effect is stronger when the OFDI is directed towards developed rather than emerging countries.
Developing countries have always faced the problem of excess labor, unemployment, limited resources, low level of education, lack of good governance, etc., all these pushing labor force (either male or female) towards developed countries where they enjoy all the economic benefits.
Moreover, there has been a change in the population of each district, explained mainly by the migration process towards developed countries, which has been occurring in waves during the last decade.
Moreover, in recent years the massive migration of people from the south countries, where parasitic diseases are common, towards developed countries fueled that many parasitic infections are now reemerging and generating new health problems at a global level.
By targeting different markets, TFCs move towards their global goal of increasing convergence of snack consumption towards developed country levels, albeit a goal still far from reached in much of the world [ 131].
