- Central and Eastern Europe: In an annual report on investment in the world, the UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) draws up the balance sheet of the situation in 2002, in the different regions. Thus, the foreign direct investment (FDI) entries reached a record amount of $29 billion in the Central and Eastern European region, a rise which is in stark contrast with the falls recorded in all the other regions of the world. FDI has progressed there by 15% compared to...