PETER BRUCE: Foreign investment, wow! That’s a good thing, innit?

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PETER BRUCE: Foreign investment, wow! That’s a good thing, innit? Bruceps

It is, Google Translate tells me,— the report to beat all reports. It somehow sounds great in Italian.

At best we get to 13% . Last year our fixed investment to GDP ratio was 13%. Botswana did 28.5%, Nigeria 31%, India 26%, South Korea 33%, Turkey 28% and France 24%. Our investment calculations traditionally assume state-owned companies do about a third of all investing. This time, however, we are presented with two types of foreign direct investment . “Market-seeking FDI involves seeking large populations with growing incomes whilst resource-seeking FDI seeks a labour force at competitive relative costs ...”

 

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