This document discusses direct foreign investment and international diversification. It outlines various motives for direct foreign investment, including revenue-related motives like entering new markets and cost-related motives like using cheaper foreign labor. The document also discusses how international diversification can reduce risk for multinational companies by locating projects in economies with low correlations. It provides an example showing how a company could achieve more stable returns by locating a new project in the UK rather than the US. Additionally, the document discusses host country perspectives on foreign investment and decisions companies must make after initial foreign investment.