Note this interesting graphic from the June 17, 2008 New York Times. On the one hand, the chart shows that in 2007 foreign direct investment (FDI) grew by 14% in China but a whopping 136% in Vietnam and 36% in India.More dramatically, the chart shows the continued enormous disparity in China's share of FDI compared with India and Vietnam - while China's FDI in 2007 was $80 billion, FDI was under $20 billion in each of India and Vietnam. Interestingly too, note that Vietnam's FDI is at similar levels to India, a much larger country.
