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

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

An increase in FDI outflows is a priority in China for two reasons.

One is that Governments have been supporting FDI outflows.

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.

Each of the developing regions experienced an increase in FDI inflows in 2004.

While foreign direct investment flows kept increasing, the trend could not be guaranteed.

Foreign direct investment

Meanwhile, FDI flows bounced back in the United Kingdom and the United States.

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

Foreign direct investment flows have generally been influenced by policies that do not discriminate between foreign and domestic investors.

Beware of FDI Protectionism

Indian equity participation is largely majority owned.

A panel of experts on FDI presented data related to the growth of FDI outflows from developing countries, this growth being fastest in the Asia Pacific region, which now accounted for nearly three quarters of developing country outward FDI stock.

The Libyan Arab Jamahiriya will significantly increase its FDI inflows as a result of the end of sanctions in 2003.

Flows to developing countries appear to lead the recovery in global FDI.

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

Overall, FDI flows are expected to increase over the medium term because of improvements in the main fundamentals that drive FDI a broad based economic recovery, equity market valuations and mergers and acquisitions (M As) activity.

The other major advantage of such regional groupings has been their ability to attract foreign direct investment. Since the early 1990 s, Mercosur has managed to mobilize 5.9 of world FDI inflows.

Ireland showed the importance of foreign direct investment.

The impact of FDI on development

Emerging FDI from developing countries

Obstacles to OFDI

Effectiveness of Foreign Direct Investment Policy Measures

The investment climate and FDI

Currently, the US receives only about 2 3 of FDI flows from China.

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

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

Lack of institutional structure and lack of capacity are obstacles to intra African FDI and portfolio investment.

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

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

FDI inflows had become significant in Benin only after the establishment of a market oriented economy in the late 1980s.

More than 64 per cent of Singapore's OFDI was in Asia.

Over the past 15 years, FDI outflows from developing countries have grown faster than those from developed countries.

In the long term, private capital flows other than FDI tended to be highly pro cyclical.

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.