A complete foreign investment decision-support service

The new World Investment Service is brought to you by the Economist Intelligence Unit, in collaboration with Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing (BvDEP). This innovative new service provides essential support for all your investment decisions, fromresearch and planning to monitoring and analysis. World Investment Service features a detailed database containing flows of investment by country and industry, overseas mergers and acquisitions and business costs.

The service covers the world’s 60 largest economies and provides detailed full-text reports covering the political and economic background, business environment, foreign investment regulations and trends in foreign investment. World Investment Service helps you understand not just the current conditions—it also identifies the future opportunities and risks that may impact on your investments. Drawing on the Economist Intelligence Unit’s renowned macroeconomic forecasts and forward-looking analysis—such as the Business Environment Rankings—World Investment Service provides a detailed picture of the country as an investment destination over a five-year horizon.

Key features:
Access to a comprehensive database containing flows of investment by country and industry
• Detailed FDI forecasts by country for the next five years.
• Content is fully customisable. You can build your own reports by choosing the sections you want to include, the countries you want to compare against and even project the costs associated with your investment.
• A unique blend of data and analysis to support foreign investment decisions.

How will you benefit from using World Investment Service?
ccess detailed research to support your overseas investment plans and monitor existing investments.
• Build your own detailed, investment-orientated country reports to support initial research or as part of due diligence. • Track and benchmark countries’ performance as investment destinations.
• Anticipate future trends in foreign investments with our five year forecasts.
• Identify the countries which are most attractive for foreign investment in particular industries.
• Compare the cost of your existing or planned investment across 60 countries.
• Do all of this with one service and with simple-to-use technology.

Which data series does World Investment Service provide?
As with all our products, World Investment Service provides reliable, accurate, timely and comparable statistics. They are checked and vetted by our teams of country experts with the rigour you expect. This is especially important for foreign investment statistics, where inconsistencies are rife and definitions non-standard. This service provides the best data drawn from the most reliable sources – leaving you time to worry about your investment rather than the data. 280 variables are provided for each country, divided into four major categories. The following series are available.

Business environment rankings: summary
• Analysis of the attractiveness of business environments to multinational corporations through a standard framework.
• Examination of a country’s overall ranking in relation to those of its main competitors.
• Summary of the main trends in business conditions.

Advertising & Marketing
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