Some items have links to full-text. Contains detailed reports on investment conditions for hundreds of countries, as well as economic policy and trade practices, foreign economic relations, labor trends, country-specific commercial guides, exchange rate information, and FDI flows by source country, usually for the past three to five years. Sections particularly relevant for FDI include the sections on Country Specific Information and the Market Reports Historical Archive. World Bank data from over 200 countries and more than 800 time series, including Foreign Direct Investment Inflows as a percentage of GDP and GDI, Gross Domestic Fixed Investment, net direct and portfolio investment, and a wide range of other economic and socio-economic time series. Data is annual and can be downloaded directly into Excel, SAS and other statistical software packages.
Selected indicators are available on the web site linked with the title, above.
Divided into two parts. Part one includes country tables with annual time series data for direct investment, including direct investment abroad, foreign direct investment within each host country, and portfolio investment, including data on equity and debt securities, money market instruments, and financial derivatives. Also available as an electronic datafile accessible via the Electronic Data Service . Each report offers a concise, well written analysis of the economic and political situation, as well as economic projections for 58 of the world's largest economies. Reports also include statistical tables for direction of trade, balance of payments, price indices, foreign direct investment, government finance, and other macroeconomic indicators.