{"id":3084,"date":"2019-06-14T23:49:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T23:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:20","slug":"global-foreign-direct-investment-is-down-but-not-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/14\/global-foreign-direct-investment-is-down-but-not-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Foreign Direct Investment Is Down, But Not In Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By ALJAZEERA NEWS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the third year in a row, foreign direct investment (FDI) is\ndown all over the world, but not in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/regions\/africa.html\">Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Global money is banking on African growth, reduced barriers to\ncross-border trade and affordable access to commodities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 2017 to 2018, global FDI fell from $1.5 trillion to $1.3\ntrillion, according to an analysis by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/un.html\">United Nations<\/a>&nbsp;Conference\non Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The conference released its 2019 World\nInvestment Report this week, showing that global FDI not only hit its lowest\nlevel since the global financial crisis, but has also been on the decline for\nthree consecutive years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One region defied this trend: Africa. In 2018, roughly $46bn worth\nof FDI flowed into Africa, an 11 percent increase compared to 2017. This is\nsignificant for the continent because when a company or an individual makes an\nFDI, they are said to be establishing a long-term business interest in a\nforeign country. The expectation is that they will not only invest money, but\nalso time, and soft assets (i.e. technology, expertise&nbsp;and training) \u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/ajimpact\/global-foreign-direct-investment-africa-190612201818843.html\">read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By ALJAZEERA NEWS For the third year in a row, foreign direct investment (FDI) is down all over the world, but not in&nbsp;Africa. Global money is banking on African growth,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}