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This section provides detailed definitions and sources of terms relating to FDI and TNCs used in the
World Investment Directory
and the
World Investment Report
. For any further questions, please contact
statfdi@unctad.org
.
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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
Transnational corporations (TNC)
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