EVALUATING FOREIGN-INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENT IN CHINA - A SYSTEMATIC-APPROACH

To successfully develop a region's or country's economy, policy-makers have to utilize foreign investments. To attract the right foreign inv estors, the host has to understand not only the investors, but more im portantly its own investment environment. This article presents a prac tical method for evaluating investment environment from the viewpoint of a host region or country. A real Chinese case was analysed by apply ing this method. The evaluation method is recommended not only to Chin a, but also to those countries having investment environments similar to China's. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.