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China Overtakes US as World’s Leading Destination for Foreign Direct Investment
- clcuc 6y ago> While China attracted more new inflows last year, the total stock of foreign investment in the U.S. remains much larger [...] Where can we see the numbers of total stock of foreign investment by country of origin and country of "reception"?
- yorwba 6y agoThe IMF tracks aggregate statistics for each country https://data.imf.org/?sk=7A51304B-6426-40C0-83DD-CA473CA1FD52 https://data.imf.org/?sk=7A51304B-6426-40C0-83DD-CA473CA1FD5... The World Bank's visualization is a bit nicer: net inflows: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BX.KLT.DINV.CD.WD?most_recent_value_desc=true https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BX.KLT.DINV.CD.WD?most_... net outflows: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BM.KLT.DINV.CD.WD?most_recent_value_desc=true https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BM.KLT.DINV.CD.WD?most_... But if you want to know about investment flow between each pair of countries, then I have no idea whether there's a publicly accessible resource for that.
- sthnblllII 6y agoFree trade and lax capital controls were supposed to increase foreign investment in the US economy. However, allowing so much production to move overseas has resulted in massive efficiencies of scale in China, which makes investment in the US relatively unprofitable, despite the restrictions and requirements in China.