UNCTAD (Unite Nations Conference on Trade and Development) has published, as it does every year, a report giving the foreign direct investment (FDI) flows throughout the world during the previous year. In 2002, these flows declined considerably compared to the year before, from $1,300 billion in 2000 to 760 billion last year, i.e. a fall of 40%. All developed countries are affected as well as, to a lesser extent, the developing countries except for Africa. The general economic slowdown and a...