Not all foreign direct investment is foreign: the extent of round-tripping

Some foreign investment represents domestic funds that have been sent abroad before returning to the domestic economy, called round-tripping. Traditional FDI statistics do not distinguish round-tripping from genuine foreign investment. This Perspective argues for countries to produce statistics by ultimate investing country to identify the round-tripping in their economies.

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Year of publication:	2016
Authors:	Borga, Maria
Publisher:	New York, NY : Columbia University, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI)

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Series:	Columbia FDI Perspectives ; 172
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Research Report
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/254006 [Handle] RePEc:zbw:colfdi:172 [RePEc]
Source:	EconStor

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