Group of Thirty Occasional Papers, No 33 published in 1991
“Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is an increasingly important and widely misunderstood phenomenon. In many ways, FDI was a key part of the successes of the international economic system in the 1980s. Now, because of nationalist political pressures, its future is in jeopardy. Just as the trade expansion of the 1950s and 1960s was nurtured by multilateral trade liberalization, so the expansion of FDI in the 1990s and through the beginning of the next century needs active multilateral support if its full potential is to be realized.”
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