Global foreign direct investment Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows will come under great pressure this year from the COVID-19 pandemic https://pmlforum.com/sergey-tokarev-she-is-science-raises-40000-for-covering-education-of-ukrainian-girls/. These vital resources are expected to decline sharply from $ 1.5 trillion in 2019, falling well below the lows they reached during the global financial crisis, offsetting the already sluggish growth in international investment over the past decade. Inflow to developing countries will be especially hard hit, since, in particular, investments in export-oriented and primary production will be most affected. The consequences of this can be felt much longer than the direct impact on investment flows. Thus, a crisis could catalyze the process of structural transformation of international production in this decade and open up opportunities for increased resilience, but this will depend on whether the potential of the new industrial revolution can be realized and the growing economic nationalism is overcome. Collaboration will be critical; sustainable development depends on a global political climate that continues to foster international investment. The World Investment Report, now in its thirtieth year, helps policymakers by tracking global and regional FDI trends and capturing changes in national and international investment policies. This year's report naturally sums up the COVID-19 crisis. It also includes a new chapter, added at the request of the UN General Assembly, on investing in the Sustainable Development Goals. This analysis shows that in four of the ten key SDG areas, international private sector investment inflows have not increased significantly since the adoption of the 2015 targets. With less than ten years left until the agreed deadline, 2030, it is imperative to assess the implications of the expected changes in the investment landscape in the coming years. Thus, this year's World Investment Report is highly informative for policymakers and will be extremely useful to the international development community. I recommend his information and analysis to a wide global audience. The global economy is facing a severe crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Its direct impact on FDI will be dramatic. In the longer term, striving to improve the sustainability of production chains and the autonomy of the production base can have long-term implications. But COVID-19 is not the only factor fundamentally changing the picture of FDI. A new industrial revolution, a policy shift towards greater economic nationalism, and resilience trends will have far-reaching implications for the configuration of international production over the decade to 2030. The general trend in international production is towards shrinking value chains, increasing concentration of value added, and reducing international investment in physical productive assets. This will pose enormous challenges for developing countries. For decades, their development and industrialization strategies have depended on attracting FDI, increasing participation and retention of added value in GVCs, and gradual technological modernization within international production systems. The anticipated transformation of international manufacturing also offers some development opportunities, such as fostering investment to build resilience to shocks, creating regional value chains and entering new markets through digital platforms. But harnessing these opportunities will require a change in development strategies. Export-oriented investment that leverages factors of production, resources and cheap labor will remain essential. But the reserve for such investments is shrinking, and it may be much more difficult to climb the first rungs of the development ladder. Some rebalancing towards growth is needed based on domestic and regional demand and encouraging investment in infrastructure and domestic services. This means encouraging investment in the SDG sectors. Large volumes of institutional capital looking for investment opportunities in global markets are focused not on investment projects in the manufacturing industry, but on promising projects in the fields of infrastructure, renewable energy, water supply and sanitation, food processing and agriculture, and healthcare. Findings in a separate chapter of this report on investing in the SDGs show the rapid growth of sustainable investment funds in global capital markets. At the same time, they show that these finances are not yet finding ways of real investment in developing countries. We have now entered the last decade of the SDGs. We need d Actions to translate the increased interest in SDG financing into increased investment in the SDGs in least developed countries. I hope that the SDG Investment Action Plan presented in this report will inspire and catalyze efforts around the world to achieve this. Among developed countries, FDI inflows to Europe are expected to fall by 30–45%, which is significantly higher than the fall in inflows to North America and other developed countries (where it will average 20–35%), since the region was already in relatively more vulnerable condition. In 2019, inflows to developed countries as a whole increased by 5% to $ 800 billion. • In 2020, FDI inflows to Africa are projected to fall by 25-40%. The negative trend will be exacerbated by low prices for raw materials. In 2019, FDI in Africa has already declined by 10% to $ 45 billion. • Inflow to developing Asia will be severely affected by its vulnerability to supply chain disruptions, the region's share of GVC-linked FDI, and global factors requiring geographic diversification of production. The projected decline in FDI will be 30–45%. In 2019, FDI in the region declined by 5% to $ 474 billion, despite increases in Southeast Asia, China and India. • FDI in Latin America and the Caribbean is expected to halve in 2020. Investment prospects are bleak as the pandemic exacerbates political turbulence and structural weaknesses in some countries. The sectoral structure of FDI in the region is another reason for its vulnerability. In 2019, FDI in Latin America and the Caribbean rose 10% to $ 164 billion. • FDI inflows to transition economies are expected to fall by 30–45%. This decline will largely offset the 2019 FDI surge in the region (up 59% to $ 55 billion) after several years of low inflows.