The Analysis on Environmental Effect of Logistics Industry FDI

Yang Wang

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DOI: 10.4236/ib.2010.23038                

Abstract

Whether it is positive or negative effect for FDI to the host environment, the theoretic problem exists in argument. The paper analyzes influence factors, mechanism, environmental regulations and so on of FDI environmental effect, use Spearman rank correlation coefficients to calculate, and believes that in the reality, the host country is the main factor of the environmental effect, based on the stage of China’s economic development, environmental carrying capacity and the advanced technologies and management concepts of TNC, to promote logistics FDI to play an positive environmental effect.

Keywords

Logistics, FDI, Environmental Effect

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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