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You are working for a company that is considering investing in a foreign country. Investing in
countries with different traditions is an important element of your company’s long-term strategic
goals. As such, management has requested a report regarding the attractiveness of alternative
countries based on the potential return of FDI. Accordingly, the ranking of the top 25 countries in Snap a photo from your
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terms of FDI attractiveness is a crucial ingredient for your report. A colleague mentioned a
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potentially useful tool called the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Confidence Index. The FDI download link
Confidence Index is a regular survey of global executives conducted by A.T. Kearney. Find this
index and provide additional information regarding how the index is constructed.
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Before entering into business investing in foreign country, it is important and adorable to
consider the rank and potential of that particular country in FDI ratings. The FDI (Foreign Direct
Confidence Index) is a regular survey of global executives conducted by ATK. The FDI confidence
Index provides insight for global investment. It was established in 1998 that provides major
contributions to the foreign investing countries by providing FDI potential and inflows of various
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The survey provides an accurate index table for FDI confidence. The FDI Confidence Index table
is as shown below:

The 2015 FDI confidence index:

Country Rank

US 1

Chi-a 2

UK 3

Can-da 4

Ger-ny 5

Bra-il 6
 Jap-n 7

Fr-ce 8

Me-co 9

Aus-lia 10

Ind-a 11

It-ly 12

Neth-nds 13

Swit- land 14

Sing-re 15

South-kore 16

Spa-n 17

Swe-n 18

Bel-um 19

Den-ark 20

Aus-ria 21

Tur-ey 22

Pol-nd 23

No-way 24

Fin-and 25

The FDI index is able to prove its trustworthiness ever since its establishment by providing
reliable FDI report.

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The information and details of FDI construction is given below in details:

• The FDI confidence index is constructed by primary data of proprietary survey.

• The index is made on weighted average on the basis of the number of responses of likelihood
direct investment over next three years.

• These index values are calculated without the responses from nation’s corporate investors.
 • FDI also provides flow figures. These statistics are extracted from UNCTAD (United Nations
Conference on trade and Development).

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