Foreign Direct Investment: Trends, Data Availability, Concepts, and Recording Practices

By Neil K. Patterson, Marie Montanjees, Colleen Cardillo, John Motala

September 16, 2004

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Neil K. Patterson, Marie Montanjees, Colleen Cardillo, and John Motala. Foreign Direct Investment: Trends, Data Availability, Concepts, and Recording Practices, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2004) accessed September 25, 2024

Summary

The increasing importance of multinational enterprises in the global economy has stimulated interest in improving the availability, accuracy, and comparability of foreign direct investment (FDI) statistics among policymakers, analysts, and statisticians. This report notes recent trends in FDI and examines the progress made in moving toward compilation of FDI statistics in accordance with standards established by the IMF and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The report also reviews international recommendations for the compilation, analysis, and dissemination of FDI data and notes discrepancies in global balance of payments statistics and in data on bilateral FDI stocks. In addition, the report provides information on selected countries current practices in measuring FDI--on the basis of results from a joint IMF/OECD survey that covered 30 OECD countries and 31 other IMF member countries and was the subject of Foreign Direct Investment Statistics: How Countries Measure FDI 2001, published by the IMF and OECD in 2003.

Subject: Asset and liability management, Balance of payments, Balance of payments statistics, Economic and financial statistics, Financial institutions, Foreign direct investment, Labor, Special purpose vehicle, Stocks, Wages

Keywords: Africa, Balance of payments statistics, Data deficiency, Enterprise, FDI data, FDI inflow, FDI statistics, FDI transaction, Foreign direct investment, Global, M&G, Special purpose vehicle, Stocks, Wages, Western Hemisphere, World FDI flow

Publication Details

Pages:

44
Volume:

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Manuals & Guides
Stock No:

FDITEA
ISBN:

9781589063471
ISSN:

2663-3744

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