Foreign direct investment recovers in developed countries in 2013. After a sharp fall in 2012, foreign direct investment (FDI) activity by the world's 39 developed economies recovered in 2013, albeit marginally in the case of outflows, according to UNCTAD's World Investment Report 2014, published on Tuesday 24 June. Inflows were $566 billion, rising 9% over 2012. Outflows were $857 billion in 2013 - virtually unchanged from a year earlier. Both inflows and outflows remained at barely half...