20世纪70年代，直接投资国外的跨国公司（TNC’s）刚刚引起人们注意的时候，很多政府都认为直接外资的代价超过了它的收益，因此采取了控制外资的政策。
During the 1970’s, when the transnational corporations (TNC’s) undertaking such investment caught the public eye, many governments believed that the costs of FDI outweighed its benefits, so they controlled it.