THE GIANTS

These Goliaths of FDI attract the most outside direct investment in absolute terms. While this ranking usually receives the most attention in the media, it favors size by three measures-GDP, population and area-over performance. The US, China, Germany, France, India, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Russia, Mexico and Australia all make the top 10 in at least one of these three measures- even though none qualifies as a Superstar.
Israel, which closes the top 20, dosen’t quite fit any of these patterns. It makes its first appearance in the top 20 this year, reaping $19 billion of FDI, an extraordinary increase of almost 60% over 2016’s record total. A big part of its success can be explaind by a cross-border M&A frenzy, mostly in the pharma and tech sectors.


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