Foreign direct investment (fdi) is expected to increase over the next three years despite concerns about global financial instability and protectionism in some countries, according to the new UNCTAC World Investment Prospects Survey 2007-2009, based on 192 respondents among the largest multinational companies in the world. More than two-thirds of them are planning to increase their fdi spending in the three years 2007, 2008 and 2009 in all sectors. Interest in the emerging economies of Asia...