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Development: Foreign Investments |
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World Investment
Report 2017
INVESTMENT AND THE DIGITAL ECONOMY
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TABLE OF CONTENTS - PREFACE - FOREWORD - ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - ABBREVIATIONS
Key Messages
CHAPTER I. GLOBAL INVESTMENT PROSPECTS AND TRENDS
INTRODUCTION
A. PROSPECTS
1. Overall prospects assessment
2. Key factors influencing future FDI flows
3. UNCTAD business survey
B. CURRENT TRENDS
1. FDI by geography
2. FDI by sector, industry and mode of entry
C. INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION
1. Internationalization trends of top MNEs
2. State-owned MNEs
CHAPTER II. REGIONAL TRENDS
INTRODUCTION
A. DEVELOPING ECONOMIES
1. Africa
2. Developing Asia
3. Latin America and the Caribbean
B. TRANSITION ECONOMIES
C. DEVELOPED ECONOMIES
D. STRUCTURALLY WEAK, VULNERABLE AND SMALL ECONOMIES
1. Least developed countries
2. Landlocked developing countries
3. Small island developing States
CHAPTER III. RECENT POLICY DEVELOPMENTS AND KEY ISSUES
INTRODUCTION
A. NATIONAL INVESTMENT POLICIES
1. Overall trends
2. Investment laws and their relation to IIA reform
B. INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT POLICIES
1. Recent developments in the international investment regime
2. Taking stock of IIA reform
3. Phase 2 of IIA reform
C. CAPITAL MARKETS AND SUSTAINABILITY
1. Sustainable Stock Exchanges initiative
2. Green bonds
3. Indices
4. Guidance and listing requirements on ESG disclosure
CHAPTER IV. INVESTMENT AND THE DIGITAL ECONOMY
A. INTRODUCTION
1. The pervasiveness of the digital economy
2. The relevance of the digital economy for investment and investment policy
B. MNEs AND INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY
1. The rise of tech MNEs and its implications
2. Digital and tech MNEs: a fundamentally different international footprint
3. The digitalization of MNEs across industries: gradual transformation
4. Implications for investment policy: from analogue to digital
C. INVESTMENT IN DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT
1. Digital development strategies: the investment dimension
2. Investment in digital infrastructure
3. Investment in digital firms
4. Investment in digitalization across industries
D. TOWARDS AN INVESTMENT POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR THE DIGITAL AGE
REFERENCES
ANNEX TABLES
Annex table 1. FDI flows, by region and economy, 2011–2016
Annex table 2. FDI stock, by region and economy, 2000, 2010 and 2016
Annex table 3. Value of cross-border M&As, by region/economy of seller/purchaser, 2010–2016
Annex table 4. Value of cross-border M&As, by sector/industry, 2010–2016
Annex table 5. Cross-border M&A deals worth over $3 billion completed in 2016
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The UNCTAD work programme on FDI Statistics documents and
analyses global and regional trends in FDI, and assist
developing countries in formulating FDI policies based on
quality FDI data, and information of TNCs operating in the
region or the country.
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