MOFCOM. 2012. Statistics. Retrieved September September 15, 2012, from http://english.mofcom.gov.cn/ T. 2002. Beyond Sweatshops. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. Nickel, J. W. 1987. Making Sense of Human Rights: Philosophical Reflections on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. Pauly, L.W., & Reich, S. 1997. National Structures and Multinational Corporate Behavior: Enduring Differences in the Age of Globalization. International Organization, 51(1): 1-30. Richards, D, Gelleny, R., & Sacko, D. 2001. Money with a mean streak? Foreign economic penetration and government respect for human rights in developing countries. International Studies Quarterly, 45: 219-239. Root, F.R., & Ahmed, A.A. 1979. Empirical Determinants of Manufacturing Direct Foreign Investment in Developing Countries. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 27(4): 751-767. Schnakenberg, K., & Fariss, C. 2014. Dynamic Patterns of Human Rights Practices. Political Science Research and Methods, 2(1): 1-31. Schneider, F., & Frey, B.S. 1985. Economic and Political Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment. World Development, 13(2): 161-175. Sethi, S.P., & Elango, B. 2000. The Influence of “Country of Origin” on Multinational Corporation Global Strategy: A Conceptual Framework. Journal of International Management, 5(4): 285-298. Spar, D.L., & La Mure, L.T. 2003. The of Activism: Assessing the Impact of NGOs on Global Business. California Management Review, 45(3): 78.
Table 2: Variable Definitions and Data Sources Variable Definition Source TOTALFDI Annual per capita foreign direct investment inflows, from all nations UNCTAD (http://unctadstat.unctad.org/) USFDI Annual per capita foreign direct investment inflows from the US BEA (www.bea.gov/) CHINESEFDI Annual per capita foreign direct investment inflows from MOFCOM (http://english.mofcom.gov.cn/) FHREP Freedom House index of civil liberties Freedom (http://www.freedomhouse.org/) CIRIREP CIRI index of physical integrity rights CIRI Human Rights Data Project (http://ciri.binghamton.edu/) LIT Literacy rate of adult population (15+) UNESCO NATRES Annual from natural resources Bank (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator) TRADE Annual percentage of imports and exports to GDP World Bank (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator) INFLA Annual inflation rate World Bank (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator) POLRISK Private property rights enforcement and quality of judiciary Heritage Foundation BUSFREE Ease of starting and operating private enterprises and burden of regulation Heritage Foundation EGROW Annual rate of growth of GDP World Bank (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator)
Table 3: Summary Statistics (Total, American & Chinese FDI from 2007–2010) Mean Std. Deviation N FHREP 3.8578 1.60184 204 CIRIREP 3.5294 1.75721 204 LIT 82.2346 204 NATRES 14.0738 20.02564 204 TRADE 80.4741 204 8.0693 9.05468 204 POLRISK 35.1716 15.58688 204 BUSFREE 57.7127 15.73269 204 EGROW 4.8186 4.69571 204 Table 4: Pearsson Correlation Coefficients (Total, American & Chinese FDI from 2007–2010) FHREP CIRI LIT NATRES TRADE INFLA POLRIS BUSFREE EGROW 1 -.407** .420** -.033 .051 -.576** -.487** .162* CIRI -.407** 1 -.175* .066 .120 -.192** -.186** .046 LIT -.262** -.175* 1 .046 .231** .042 .165* .174* -.039
Table 7: Results of the GEE Regressions – Non-Financial FDI (2004–2006)† Variable Chinese NF-FDI Chinese NF-FDI FHREP -.049 (.069) CIRIREP -.055 (.027)** LIT –.002 (.003) –.001 (.003) NATRES .010 (.005)** .009 (.004)** .005 (.002)** .004 (.002)* INFLA –.000 (.004) .000 (.004) POLRISK .002 (.005) .002 (.004) BUSFREE .006 (.004) .006 (.005) EGROW –.003 (.010) –.002 (.010) Constant –.066 (.427) –.462 (.347) Observations 177 177 Wald χ² 19.70** 34.23*** †The cells contain regression coefficients with semi-robust standard errors in parentheses *Significant at the .10 level **Significant at the .05 level ***Significant at the .01 level