UNCTAD revises downwards FDI flows forecast for 2012 . In the first half of 2012 foreign direct investment (FDI) flows fell by 8% in relation to the first six months of 2011, due to a new slowdown in economic growth, UNCTAD reports. The new forecasts that it publishes consider that FDI flows will, at best, level off slightly below $1.6 trillion for the whole of 2012. “Investment leads economic growth but the current trends of investment flows to developing countries, particularly to Asia,...