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FDI Reaches More Countries Than in the Past
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is reaching many more countries than in the past, according to the World Investment Report 2001 published here recently by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
The number of countries receiving an annual average of more than US$1 billion rose from 17 (six of which were developing countries) in the mid-1980s to 51( 23 of them developing countries) at the end of the 1990s, the report says.
In the case of outflows, 33 countries (11 of them developing countries) invested more than US$1 billion at the end of the 1990s, compared to 13 countries (only one of them a developing country) in the mid-1980s, the report says.
According to the report, despite its reach, however, FDI is unevenly distributed. The world's top 30 host countries account for 95 percent of total world FDI inflows and 90 percent of stocks. The top 30 home countries -- mainly industrialized economies -- generate around 99 percent of outward FDI flows and stocks.
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