perspe c tives MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT GUARANTEE AGENCY WORLD BANK GROUP
‘South-South’ FDI and Political Risk Insurance:
Challenges and Opportunities
Positive global FDI prospects
Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows reached an esti-
mated US$1.5 trillion in 2007, according to a recent report by
the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), and are set to continue
on an upward path, with some year-to-year fluctuations.1 While
FDI is expected to decline somewhat in 2008 as global merger
and acquisition (M&A) activi