Foreign direct investment

Foreign direct investment

FDI and Development Policy Issues Related to the Growth of FDI in Services

The Benefits of Chinese FDI

FDI And Development The Case of Privatization Related Services FDI Trends, Impact and Policy Issues

Beware of FDI Protectionism

Indian equity participation is largely majority owned.

In the case of ASEAN, intraregional FDI accounts for close to one fifth of the total FDI.

On the inward side, developing countries' FDI has been increasing (to 25 per cent of inward FDI stock in services), though developed countries remain the main recipients.

Ireland showed the importance of foreign direct investment.

The impact of FDI on development

Emerging FDI from developing countries

Obstacles to OFDI

Foreign direct investment flows can, and should, be encouraged.

Effectiveness of Foreign Direct Investment Policy Measures

The investment climate and FDI

Reasons for OFDI now include, apart from seeking markets, to acquire strategic assets like technology, marketing and brand names, and establish trade supporting networks.

Investment promotion agencies for inward FDI and OFDI, both in developing and developed countries, could coordinate their efforts.

FDI in safety we were just watching and taking care of the perimeter of FDI and 30 seconds later, it exploded we were hit by RPG's and AK's then began to arrive so far, I saw everything happening where the insurgents appeared, and where were the RPG, ve only dust and dirt everywhere, smoke

In 2002, services accounted for about 55 per cent of the total stock of inward FDI in developing countries and some 85 per cent of outward FDI stock for developing countries.

The shift of FDI to services

Outward FDI from developing countries

Table 2. FDI outflows as a percentage of gross fixed capital formation in selected economies, 2001 2003a (concluded)

The case of South South FDI

Drivers and motivation of OFDI

Benefits and costs of FDI for African development

But what would an appreciation of the renminbi do to China s inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI)?

) To the extent that these agreements protect investment and open up industries for FDI, they facilitate OFDI from developing countries.

FDI by SMEs involved evaluation of investment locations based on a set of variables which could be clustered under markets, costs, natural resources, infrastructure framework, policy framework and business promotion and support factors.

Luxembourg and Spain, both major recipients of FDI in 2003, received lower FDI inflows last year.

The Expert Meeting will focus on the issues of FDI data compilation and analysis and its role in the formulation of FDI policies from a development perspective.

Policy measures that support OFDI 13

OFDI and enterprise competitiveness

Recent trends in outward FDI from China

Outward foreign direct investment by Indian small and medium sized enterprises

Different qualitative information (e.g. national quality standards, list of exporters, interest rates used in the selected sectors) can also be gathered.

Finally, international competition for inward foreign direct investment may lead governments to reduce tax rates and increase concessions for foreign investors.

The production of foreign subsidiaries may be a benefit, but if it displaces existing local production, there is an offsetting cost.

Some experts stressed that policies had been traditionally oriented to attract FDI and were not really defined as promoting outward FDI.

Does OFDI increase competitiveness of firms and how could competitiveness from OFDI be measured?

One of the reasons for this is that in most Latin American and Caribbean countries, FDI policies focus on attracting large quantities of FDI and do not pay much attention to the nature of FDI.

report of the expert meeting on the impact of fdi on development

Source UNCTAD, FDI TNCs database.

Expert Meeting on Capacity Building in the Area of FDI

Drivers and motivations of Indian OFDI