SIMSDI Survey Background
Reports
Forms
Latest SIMSDI Metadata
See Also:
Coordinated Direct Investment Survey
OECD Benchmark Definition of Foreign Direct Investment (BD4)
Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics
Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board (DSBB): metadata on SDDS and GDDS data categories
External Debt Statistics: debt data,
conference on capital flows and debt statistics, final draft Guide for Compilers and Users, and other
selected publications
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Direct Investment
Methodology
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Last Updated: July 24, 2008
Direct investment is the category of international investment
that reflects the objective of a resident entity in one economy
obtaining a lasting interest in an enterprise resident in another
country. (IMF Balance
of Payments Manual, fifth edition, paragraph 359.)
This website is divided into the following sections:
See also the webpage regarding the direct investment issues being reviewed in the process of updating of the fifth edition of the IMF Balance of Payments Manual, Issues for Consideration by Technical Experts Groups
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