ABSTRACT
Any analysis of foreign direct investments (FDIs) is challenging. This is because FDIs are more difficult to capture and notoriously tricky to measure, especially when compared to trade data. Also, they are often available only from national statistics, which do not always constitute reliable sources. Moreover, this also means that those figures, even when reliable, are not comparable from one country to another. In the specific case of the LACs and Asia, time series data between the two regions dating back to 1990 are simply not available from international sources. 1
