FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS. FLOWS AND TRENDS IDENTIFYING WORLD-WIDE.

Here, in our paper, there will be about foreign direct investments (FDI) and their pair, the direct investments abroad (DIA), both viewed as a single general flow. That is why our view will(first) be world-wide level before going to individual regions, countries and capital sections, as in detail. Our whole series of studies upon FDI was inspired by the UNCTAD’s “World Investments Report” number of 2016 (WIR 2016). It publishes a data table containing foreign direct investments (FDI) and direct investments abroad (DIA) amounts of all the 215 such reporting countries in each year of the 1990-2015 interval. Our results were: (1) the FDI-DIA capital movement is enough important world-wide in absolute numbers, but just a minority of the total of 215 countries (about 35) keeps the capital majority on both FDI&DIA flow senses; (2) the international invested capital divides into “cooperation capital” and “long-way flows” according to their -- projected, versus not – later comeback to the issuer(country); the previous flows stay proper to neighbouring and/or traditional investment partner countries; the latter involve the Third World and great international investor countries. Countries group into 16 multi-country regions – i.e., some of them (6 countries) stay out of regions as naturally, e.g. laying on islands, while important actually is here their role played for FDI-DIA in the international context; regions might be of three types according to FDI&DIA behaviour;(3)moreover, countries and regions group into international capital sections, as autonomous capital markets, be it as another general trend: there are three of them resulting – “Eurasia”, “The US & partners” and “Japan in Pacific” with 55-56%, 37-38% and 7-8% as respectively for their parts in total world capital directly invested during the 1990-2015 study reference time interval (a quarter of century). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]