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This fifth edition of the World Investment Report (WIR) documents the continuing growth of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries. It analyzes the impact of FDI on the competitiveness of both developed and developing countries. The Report also discusses the policy implications for the enabling environment to promote inward as well as outward FDI and the key issues to be taken into account in multilateral negotiations. For the first time, WIR indexes transnationality that takes into account the respective shares of foreign assets, foreign sales and foreign employment of TNCs.