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Multinationals favour Europe over Asia

By Francesco Guerrera in New York and Alan Beattie in London

Published: September 17 2006 20:08 | Last updated: September 17 2006 20:08

Multinational companies are favouring Europe over Asia when expanding abroad â€" a sign that they want to be close to customers and suppliers rather than simply tap into cheap labour and plants, according to a new study of outward investment.

The surprising findings of the survey by IBM’s consulting arm, to be released on Monday, suggest that the recent boom in outsourcing of manufacturing and services to emerging markets such as China and India may be abating.

At the same time, western Europe, led by the UK and France, is regaining an edge in high-value areas such as research and development, putting pressure on developing economies to raise the skills and education levels of their workforce.

“The recent recovery in the global economy has made companies more interested in being close to their markets, suppliers and decision-makers rather than just looking for a low-cost base,” said Roel Spee, Europe’s leader for IBM’s global location unit.

The survey â€" the only study that looks at all announced foreign direct investment (FDI) by companies around the world â€" found that Europe attracted 39 per cent of all new plants and projects in 2005, with Asia-Pacific receiving 31 per cent and North America 18 per cent. In 2004, Europe and Asia were tied at 35 per cent each.

The results show that globalisation and the increase in capital and trade flows are enabling companies to exploit the competition between regions to reap the biggest rewards for their investments.

“Companies looking to invest abroad have a lot more options, “ said Gene DePrez, Americas leader for IBM’s global location unit. “Competition for FDI between countries and regions is here to stay”.

Projects in China and India still accounted for the lion’s share of funds received and jobs created, partly because those countries tend to host labour-intensive, large-scale manufacturing and services projects.

The IBM survey â€" regarded as a more precise measure of FDI than official United Nations figures because it does not include mergers and acquisitions â€" found that China received one in every eight dollars invested by companies abroad â€" more than $40bn (â,¬32bn, £21bn) in total.

India, however, was the main beneficiary on the employment front, as investments by multinationals created more than 180,000 jobs in the country in 2005.

The UK was Europe’s biggest recipient of inward investment, especially in the research and development field, where it accounted for more than a quarter of all projects launched in the region last year, followed by France with 19 per cent. The most widely used measures of FDI are the data collected by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, for which the final figures for 2005 are not yet available.

But those data are distorted by the inclusion of mergers and acquisitions, which can result in giant recorded levels of FDI when ownership changes but little or no new capital stock has actually been built. The acquisition of a substantial stake in a foreign company â€" generally more than 10 per cent â€" is treated as FDI.

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2006

[yonodio]

No estoy de acuerdo con el exceso de informáticos. La etiqueta de "informático"
es muy amplia y se la dan a cualquiera. Ponga un chimpancé a hacer un curso de .NET y alguien lo llamará informático. No hijo, no. Así­ está el sector.

No es mester que se me vaya a .NET, buen hombre. Ponga un friki pederasta regentando un ciber y ya le llamarán los medios "informático"
cuando le detengan.

No obstante, creo que sí­ empieza a haber sobreoferta de informáticos, supongo que por culpa de la proliferación de universidades privadas que, a golpe de talonario de papá, introduce en el mercado laboral a nenes que no fueron capaces en su dí­a de entrar en o soportar la uni pública. Eso sí­, con unos contactos en el mundo empresarial del copón.

Si un informático es aquel capaz de programar, te informo que tienes muchos ingenieros, fí­sicos, quí­micos, biólogos y de otras profesiones que sin haber pagado ninguna universidad privada entran dentro de esa categoria (las empresas los seleccionan y les pagan la formación en su propia empresa). 
De hecho, los ingenieros de teleco entran también dentro de la definición de "invasores"
de la informática. 
La ingenieria informática así­ como la informática de gestión, de redes, etc están ya como licenciaturas independientes. 
Y sin embargo, todos los que menciono forman parte de los "intrusos".

Ahora, si consideras como tales a aquellos capaces de desarrollar lenguajes y nuevas tecnologí­as, entonces reducimos el campo.

Un saludo

Yo pertenezco al clan de los invasores y malvados Telecos que abusan de puestos "Informaticos"