Source UNCTAD, FDI TNC database (www.unctad.org fdi statistics).

While the strategy of taking advantage of FDI inflows had been successful in other developing countries, this had not been the case in Africa.

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

The global FDI environment

29. Second, both FDI per capita and FDI as a share of GDP are very small, and in many cases FDI is declining in these countries.

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

Throughout 2004, ASIT carried out the following elaboration of draft FDI legislation for Lesotho and Botswana preparation of a diagnostic report on the positioning of Morocco with a view to increasing the national capacities for attracting FDI and development of an investment promotion strategy and capacity building programme in Kenya.

The Benefits of Chinese FDI

Emerging FDI from developing countries

The global FDI environment 3

Outward FDI from developing countries

Source UNCTAD, FDI TNCs database.

The investment climate and FDI

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

But while the Government has received FDI to support tourism infrastructure in Mount Kumgang, FDI remains insignificant

The impact of FDI on development

The shift of FDI to services

The case of South South FDI

China An emerging FDI outward investor.

(c) Allowing foreign direct investment (FDI).

The volume of FDI was inadequate.

FDI can play an important role.

Recent trends in FDI have highlighted the emergence of FDI from developing countries, particularly but not only from Asia.

Bangladesh, in common with many other LDCs, had liberalized its FDI regime. FDI flows to LDCs remained minimal, however.

UNCTAD should also continue its analysis of FDI processes, especially as regards the impact of FDI on the transition economies.

Estimates of South South FDI can be obtained by using information from home developing countries (on the destination of their outward FDI) or from host developing countries (on the source of their inward FDI).

Foreign direct investment (FDI) and portfolio investments amounted to only 9.9 per cent and 2.1 per cent, respectively, of total net resource flows to the region, while FDI profit remittances slightly exceeded FDI inflows.

For Morocco and Bosnia and Herzegovina, national strategies to attract FDI were developed, while in the Russian Federation a study was carried on a sector specific investor targeting strategy for the Moscow city government.

Figures for FDI were even more dramatic.

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Source UNCTAD, FDI TNC database. (www.unctad.org fdistatistics).

Policy trends concerning FDI from developing countries

India's outward FDI A giant awakening? Geneva.

How effective are they in attracting FDI?

5. Analysis of FDI in transition economies

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

(d) Appropriate harnessing of the potential for foreign direct investment (FDI) and encouraging increased FDI flows to small island developing States

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.

It created a new website dedicated to FDI and TNC statistics (www.unctad.org fdistatistics), a site of comprehensive and integrated data sets on FDI and operations of TNCs, drawn from UNCTAD's database on FDI and TNCs.

36. With regard to the promotion of inward FDI, countries needed to elaborate a promotion strategy targeting investors and to identify the comparative advantages they could offer the latter, as well as impediments to investment.

The report also made pertinent observations on the effects of FDI, or a lack of FDI, on economic growth and poverty reduction.

The note examines changes in foreign direct investment (FDI) patterns, and in particular the role of developing countries in world FDI outflows.

In the manufacturing sector the respective figures are 14 for FDI from developing countries and 2.5 for FDI from developed countries (WIR04).

27. The representative of India said that the uneven distribution of FDI flows called for further work on the determinants of FDI.

The international environment Trade liberalization, FDI and integration