This report analyses the link between the industrial allocation of FDI and economic development, using a newly constructed data set on industrial FDI stocks for six individual manufacturing industries (food, textiles/wood, petroleum/chemicals/rubber/plastics, metals/mechanical products,...

Since the late 1990s investors have been faced with new challenges due to changing locational characteristics in the Central European transition countries. Export demand became the main driving force of manufacturing FDI as opposed to local-market penetration in earlier years. In addition,...

This report analyses the link between the industrial allocation of FDI and economic development, using a newly constructed data set on industrial FDI stocks for six individual manufacturing industries (food, textiles/wood, petroleum/chemicals/rubber/plastics, metals/mechanical products,...

Content The first part of the publication contains an analysis of the latest FDI trends. The analysis highlights the diverging patterns of FDI recovery in 2010. The second part of the publication contains two sets of tables Tables I total flow and stock data, FDI flow by form and FDI income, FDI...

Content The first part of the publication contains an analysis of the latest FDI trends complemented by detailed methodological explanations. The analysis highlights the impacts of the recession on FDI in 2009. The second part of the publication contains two sets of tables Tables I total flow...

The first part of the publication contains an analysis of the latest FDI trends complemented by detailed methodological explanations. After years of continuous growth, FDI inflows to the CEECs stagnated in 2008. Their decline in the NMS and in the SEE countries was compensated by a virtual boom...

Since the late 1990s investors have been faced with new challenges due to changing locational characteristics in the Central European transition countries. Export demand became the main driving force of manufacturing FDI as opposed to local-market penetration in earlier years. In addition,...

The report analyses recent economic developments and short- and medium-term prospects of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe including Turkey, as well as Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine and China. Separate chapters present an overview of developments in the European Union's...

FDI inflows reached a new high in 2007 in the CEEC region as a whole. Within the region, the shift of new investments to the East continued a decline or at best stagnation was recorded in the NMS, modest growth in Southeast Europe, and a boom in the CIS. For the first time, the four European CIS...

The first part of the publication contains an analysis of the latest FDI trends complemented by detailed methodological explanations. After years of continuous growth, FDI inflows to the CEECs stagnated in 2008. Their decline in the NMS and in the SEE countries was compensated by a virtual boom...