Global Investment Promotion Benchmarking 2009: Summary Report

摘要

Many countries are convinced that foreign direct investment (FDI) should be an important component of their growth strategy. To encourage FDI, they have improved their business climates, developed various guarantees for investors, and offered incentives. Yet, time and again, reforms have not led to the expected inflows of FDI. Without efforts by countries to market themselves to potential investors, company business managers have generally failed to add new countries to their short list of attractive sites for their projects. Through the Global Investment Promotion Benchmarking (GIPB), The Investment Climate Advisory Services of the World Bank Group have developed a unique and valuable approach to measure how well countries are able to market themselves by providing relevant, accurate and timely information to potential investors.