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In this chapter we examine some recent trends and prospects in FDI by reporting the information dispatched by the UNCTAD. More details on the global and regional trends and prospects of the FDI dynamic can be found in its World Investment Report (WIR) series, which—at the time of writing—shows the WIR 2012 as the last available update.
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As a result of the reason mentioned in paragraph 1.3, where the reporting of FDI in terms of stock has already been said to be unsatisfactory because it is expressed in terms of “book value”, here we only focus our comment on the flow of FDI. However, for the purpose of completeness, we also report Tables 6.3 and 6.4 where the data on the stock of FDI are presented.
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For brevity we base our observation and comment only on the FDI flow dynamic. Nevertheless, we also report the statistic data related to the FDI stock for completeness. We do not proceed to comment on the FDI stock dynamic since it basically echoes that performed by the FDI flow.
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The 30 OECD countries we are considering here are: (1) Australia; (2) Austria; (3) Belgium; (4) Canada; (5) Czech Republic; (6) Denmark; (7) Finland; (8) France; (9) Germany; (10) Greece; (11) Hungary; (12) Iceland; (13) Ireland; (14) Italy; (15) Japan; (16) Korea Republic; (17) Luxembourg; (18) Mexico; (19) Netherlands; (20) New Zealand; (21) Norway; (22) Poland; (23) Portugal; (24) Slovak Republic; (25) Spain; (26) Sweden; (27) Switzerland; (28) Turkey; (29) United Kingdom; (30) United States of America. The remaining four OECD countries (Chile, Estonia, Israel and Slovenia) are not taken into consideration because their accession only took place in 2010.
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UNCTAD (2011) Global and regional FDI trends in 2010. Highlights, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, issue no. 5. Geneva, Switzerland
UNCTAD (2012) World investment report 2012, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Geneva, Switzerland
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Pazienza, P. (2014). Recent Trends and Prospects in the FDI Dynamic. In: The Relationship Between FDI and the Natural Environment. SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04301-2_6
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