Data Centre
Foreign Direct Investment Data
This pathfinder is a guide on easily accessible web-based data resources for foreign direct investment data.
Foreign Direct Investment Database [United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)]
The FDI database presents aggregate inflows, outflows, inward stocks and outward stocks of foreign direct investment (FDI) for 196 reporting economies. Registration is required for free access to the FDI database.
World Investment Directory [United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)]
This resource provides FDI profiles of 112 economies. Each FDI Profile contains extensive data on FDI flows and the legal framework within each country/economy, including legislation relating to bilateral treaties that govern national investment policy. Detailed statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI) and operations of transnational corporations (TNCs) in selected countries are also available.
Investment Climate [World Bank]
This site contains data on the investment climate in 58 countries, based on surveys of more than 28,000 firms. Investment climate surveys (ICS) measure entrepreneurs' perceptions of the investment climate in their country, and provide indicators of firm productivity and performance. All investment climate surveys are grounded in a standard core module (PDF, 180KB) that covers management’s perceptions of the severity of obstacles to operation and growth of the business. The following areas are covered:
- government policies and services
- quality and provision of physical infrastructure
- structure and function of labor, capital and product markets
- inter-business relations and networking
- contract enforcement
- effectiveness of regulations
- tax and customs regulations
- law and order, and other aspects of governance
The Doing Business Database provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement. The Doing Business indicators are comparable across 145 economies. They indicate the regulatory costs of business and can be used to analyze specific regulations that enhance or constrain investment, productivity and growth. The principal data collection methods for the indicators are the study of the existing laws and regulations in each economy; targeted interviews with regulators or private sector professionals in each topic; and cooperative arrangements with other departments of the World Bank, other donor agencies, private consulting firms, business and law associations. The project team prepared a set of templates or questionnaires for use by staff of the World Bank Group, or other agencies, in their work on business environment issues.
Source OECD
University of Sydney Library has subscribed to the Source OECD. The database Includes the full text of all OECD publications, such as OECD Economic Outlook, and OECD Economic Surveys. It also includes a range of OECD databases such as Main Economic Indicators, Main Industrial Indicators, National Accounts, Social Expenditure, Economic Outlook and many others.
(Use the GO TO [Select from list] drop down box at the top of the screen and choose OECD Databases, or books or journals)
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Library Contacts
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Fiona McCay
Economics & Business Librarian
f.mccay@library.usyd.edu.au
Phone: 9351 3560