The World Investment Report 2018 on "Investment and New Industrial Policies”

(INSME) The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development - UNCTAD has recently released the 2018 edition of the World Investment Report on “Investment and New Industrial Policies” presenting FDI trends and prospects at global, regional and national levels; analyzing the most recent developments in national policy measures for investment promotion and regulation; highlighting trends in investment treaties.

The Report includes relevant data and information based on a global survey carried out over the past ten years on more than 100 economies. Among the key messages of the 2018 edition it is worth mentioning that:

• Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows fell by 23% to $1.43 trillion
• Inward FDI flows to developed economies fell sharply, by 37%, to $712 billion
• FDI flows to transition economies declined by 27%, to $47 billion
• Projections for global FDI in 2018 show fragile growth
• FDI remains the largest external source of finance for developing economies, making up 39% of total incoming finance in developing economies as a group, but less than a quarter in the LDCs, with a declining trend since 2012
• MNEs in the global Top 100 and the developing-economy Top 100 are leading the way towards more gender-balanced boardrooms, although they have a distance to go: on average 22% of board members of the Top 100s are women, better than both the S&P average and national averages.

Find out more findings by reading the Report available at this page.