Foreign Direct Investment:
Developed/Developing Countries

Finance and Development, a quarterly magazine of the International Monetary Fund, looks at how foreign direct investment has grown at a phenomenal rate since the early 1980s. It argues that developing countries are becoming increasingly attractive investment destinations, in part because they can offer investors a range of "created" assets.

This paper, written by Dirk Willem te Velde of the Overseas Development Institute in London, reviews whether foreign direct investment has a positive spillover for the local economy in terms of growth and productivity.

This chart shows foreign direct investment inflows by country groups.

The World Bank Group’s site provides access to more than 800 full-text documents and links on a variety of private sector development topics. This includes economic growth, privatization policy, corporate governance, foreign investment, and private participation in health, education, and infrastructure sectors - including water, electricity, and telecommunications.

The goal of Development Gateway Foundation is an enabler of development to help improve people’s lives in developing countries by building partnerships and information systems that provide access to knowledge for development.

The European Network on Debt and Development is made up of 48 development non-governmental organizations from 15 European countries. Eurodad provides links to the latest FDI reports and updates.

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