Bilateral Foreign Direct Investments (FDI)
Foreign direct investments (FDI)
Data on bilateral FDI for 189 home countries and 186 host countries (6020 country pairs) from 2001 to 2012 based on UNCTAD data. This dataset contains 67 871 observations across 11 variables:
ID: character string indicating the country pair (ISO3 code) and the year.
ID_o: character string indicating the country of origin (ISO3 code) and the year.
ID_d: character string indicating the country of destination (ISO3 code) and the year.
country_pair: character string uniting the origin and the destination.
origin: character string indicating the first country (ISO3 code) of the country pair.
destination: character string indicating the second country (ISO3 code) of the country pair.
year: Integer indicating the year.
FDI_inflows: Numeric. Defined as “Inward flows represent transactions that increase the investment that foreign investors have in enterprises resident in the reporting economy less transactions that decrease the investment of foreign investors in resident enterprises. FDI flows are measured in USD and as a share of GDP. FDI creates stable and long-lasting links between economies.” (source)
FDI_outflows: Numeric. Defined as “Outward flows represent transactions that increase the investment that investors in the reporting economy have in enterprises in a foreign economy, such as through purchases of equity or reinvestment of earnings, less any transactions that decrease the investment that investors in the reporting economy have in enterprises in a foreign economy, such as sales of equity or borrowing by the resident investor from the foreign enterprise.” (source)
FDI_instock: Numeric. Defined as “The inward FDI stock is the value of foreign investors’ equity in and net loans to enterprises resident in the reporting economy. FDI stocks are measured in USD and as a share of GDP.” (source)
FDI_outstock: Numeric. Defined as “The outward FDI stock is the value of the resident investors’ equity in and net loans to enterprises in foreign economies.” (source)