Re:China Overtakes US as World’s Leading Destination for For...
by sthnblllII on Sunday January 24, 2021 @02:29PM
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Free 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.
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.
Where can we see the numbers of total stock of foreign investment by country of origin and country of "reception"?
The World Bank's visualization is a bit nicer:
net inflows: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BX.KLT.DINV.CD.WD?most_...
net outflows: 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.