The UN Agency for Trade and Development (UNCTAD) noted in its annual report published recently that foreign direct investment in the world will grow up to 10% in 2018, after suffering a significant setback last year, which points to a rebound in money flows globally and also in Latin America, which improves for the first time in six years.
After the decrease of 23% last year (to place the investment at 1.43 trillion dollars) there will be a “fragile growth” in 2018.
However, the global flows of foreign investment will remain below the average of the last ten years, which has been 1.55 trillion dollars, according to a press conference the director of the Division of Investment and Enterprise of UNCTAD , James Zhan.
“More positive economic projections, trade volumes and prices of raw materials would normally suggest a larger increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the world in 2018, but the risks are significant and political uncertainty abounds,” the UNCTAD experts point out in the report.
In particular, they refer to an “escalation and deepening of commercial tensions“, which would affect investment in the global value chain, and the US tax reform.
N. Moncada
Source: EFE and other means.
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