Foreign Direct Investment Statistics by Type: Challenges Identifying Greenfield Investment
Conference
65th ISI World Statistics Congress
Format: IPS Abstract - WSC 2025
Session: IPS 936 - Innovative Approaches to Developing and Compiling Globalisation Statistics
Monday 6 October 10:50 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Europe/Amsterdam)
Abstract
Equity capital from a foreign investor flowing into another country to build factories, outlets, or R&D facilities, creating substantial benefits for the host economy. This is a common interpretation of what Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) entails. While this interpretation remains accurate in some instances, restructuring activities of large multinational enterprises (MNEs) and changing financing patterns increasingly result in FDI cases that data users may not anticipate.