Global Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Dropped
Jaap de Jonge, Management Consultant, Netherlands
The UNCTAD WORLD INVESTMENT REPORT 2019 mentions that "Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows continued their slide in 2018, falling by 13 per cent to $1.3 trillion. The decline – the third consecutive year’s fall in FDI – was mainly due to large-scale repatriations of accumulated foreign earnings by United States multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the first two quarters of 2018, following tax reforms introduced in that country at the end of 2017.
