With US$84 billion of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) flows, China became the world's third-largest outward investor in 2012, behind the United States and Japan. This signals impressive progress given that the country ranked only 20th a decade ago, when the ‘going global' policy was...

While virtually all countries have policies in place to attract FDI, the picture is very different for outward investment. Most developed countries have policies in place, but most emerging markets do not. This Perspective argues that, to remain competitive, governments of emerging markets must...

The challenge to attract FDI to least developed countries (LDCs) is twofold: to help increase FDI flows to LDCs; and to increase the contribution that the FDI flows that LDCs receive make to the development of host economies. Economic determinants, an enabling regulatory framework and investment...

This publication combines insights and analytical expertise relevant to negotiating and implementing investment facilitation for development measures. It is intended to support the WTO negotiations of a multilateral framework on investment facilitation for development, as well as unilateral,...