The central question tackled here is that of the desirability of foreign direct investment over other flows, such as bank lending. There has been an undoubted rise in FDI flows as a proportion of all flows to the Latin American region, but how much of the cause is supply- or demand-driven...

This subset of the geographical distribution of financial flow dataset provides comprehensive statistics on the volume, origin and types of aid(portfolio investment, ODA loans, ODA grants,contractual lending, food aid) and other resource flows to developing countries on the DAC list of ODA...

This subset of the geographical distribution of financial flow dataset provides comprehensive statistics on the volume, origin and types of aid(portfolio investment, ODA loans, ODA grants,contractual lending, food aid) and other resource flows to developing countries on the DAC list of ODA...