(e) Can IPAs facilitate FDI linkages with local suppliers?

Admission of investment

It is a member of the Inter agency Task Force on Trade in Services, the Inter agency Task Force on Coordinated Survey on FDI Stock and the Direct Investment Technical Expert Group.

Some estimates indicate that by the end of the past decade, more than a third of the foreign direct investment going to developing countries came from their peers.

Foreign direct investment

Conventional wisdom

Foreign direct investment

Indian equity participation was largely minority owned.

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.

The former include the decentralization of FDI promotion, the development of training programmes for staff involved in investment promotion, and initiatives to educate civil society about FDI and its development impact.

Foreign direct investment from developing countries to other developing countries seems to be growing more rapidly than that from developed to developing countries.

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

OFDI from Asian developing economies was contributing to growing South South FDI flows and intra regional investment.

Direct public investment in resource protection

The share of re invested earnings emerged as the most important component of OFDI flows, accounting for about 45 per cent 50 per cent of the total flows during the

Obstacles to OFDI

(c) Allowing foreign direct investment (FDI).

Direct investments and financial operations

I. PROMOTION OF INWARD FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT

II. PROMOTION OF OUTWARD FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT

Some notable trends in FDI among developing countries are as follows

Foreign direct investment is the most direct channel for integration. By some accounts, FDI between the old and new members might be as much as 70 lower than justified by economic fundamentals.

The creation of a positive image of the host country to investors is considered the first step in investment promotion.

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

(1) Trends in foreign direct investment, in particular to least developed countries, their determinants and impediments, and policy implications for the promotion of foreign direct investment

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

Recalling the analysis of FDI trade interlinkages provided in the World Investment Report 1996, he emphasized that the interrelationships between trade and FDI had to be taken into account in national and international policy formulation.

Review of direct investment in real estate

Guidelines on the Treatment of Foreign

Against the background of global and regional foreign direct investment trends and on the basis of an analysis of the interrelationships between foreign direct investment and trade, the Commission will discuss national and international policy measures designed to increase the contribution of foreign direct investment to development, including, especially, measures to encourage foreign direct investment flows to developing countries, especially least developed countries.

There are 653 bilateral investment treaties between developing countries, which, in 2003, covered roughly 20 per cent of South South FDI stock.

Second, an IPA usually also undertakes activities related to investor targeting, including identifying potential investors preparing investment profiles and feasibility studies making direct contact with prospective investors and bringing to bear all kinds of marketing and selling skills to generate an investment.

OFDI was largely led by the manufacturing sector.

Investment promotion reflects the growing competition for FDI.

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.

While it was pointed out that there was no causal connection between international investment agreements (IIAs) and attracting FDI, it was nevertheless emphasized that the protection of investors would encourage the flow of investments.

Portfolio flows and foreign direct investment (FDI) posted the strongest growth, accounting for more than two thirds of total private inflows.

Direct public investment in resource protection 39 41 19

In addition, the interrelationship between FDI and development was not always positive and the effects of FDI on development, including the negative effects, needed to be studied further.

The shift of FDI to services

The global FDI environment

a) Promotion of inward foreign direct investment

b) Promotion of outward foreign direct investment

I. Promotion of inward foreign direct investment 7 41

II. Promotion of outward foreign direct investment 42 50