Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows record the value of cross-border transactions related to direct investment during a given period of time, usually a quarter or a year. Financial flows consist of equity transactions, reinvestment of earnings, and intercompany debt transactions. Outward flows...

Countries receiving large-scale capital inflows are at risk if these flows do not find their way into productive and long-term investment, as the Asian crisis of the late 1990s has proven. This book, the result of a joint project between the OECD Development Centre and the UN Economic Commission...

L’investissement direct étranger (IDE) est-il préférable à d’autres flux de capitaux, comme les prêts bancaires ? Telle est la question centrale traitée ici. La part de l’IDE dans l’ensemble des flux en direction de l’Amérique latine a indiscutablement augmenté, mais il n’est...