
268 International Business
Growth of the multinational enterprise has also had an impact on the environment. While governments
in host countries welcome the investment flows and the attendant benefits of technology, jobs and growth
potential, environmental damage does not seem to be a major issue. It is only when a forest is cleared to
build a factory, waterways are polluted by waste from that factory and the air is polluted through emis-
sions that we begin to see the environmental eects of international business.
For instance, in Guiyu Township, Guangdong Province of China, where residents and labourers have
conducted extensive computer scrapping, ...