World investment report 2006: FDI from developing and transition economies-implications for development

The report focuses on the rise of foreign direct investment (FDI) by transnational corporations (TNCs) from developing and transition economies. New sources of FDI are emerging among developing and transition economies. This phenomenon has been particularly marked in the past ten years, and a growing number of TNCs from these economies are emerging as major regional - or sometimes even global - players. The new links these TNCs are forging with the rest of the world will have far-reaching repercussions in shaping the global economic landscape of the coming decades. The Report examines the magnitude of this phenomenon and examines its drivers and determinants, i.e.: what economic factors and policy developments lead firms from developing countries to venture abroad? For low-income countries, FDI from developing countries can be of great importance. In some of them, it accounts for a significant share of all FDI flows. The Report also discusses the development implications of the rise of these new sources of FDI, along with policy responses, for both home and host developing countries.