FDI flows to the ASEAN region continued to rise in the first half of 2002, according to statistics released jointly today by ASEAN and UNCTAD. The 0.4% increase over the same period a year earlier, although slight, was helped by high reinvested earnings, which mitigated the FDI downturn and kept the region´s FDI inflows resilient. More than 75% of the value of FDI flows in 2001 to Malaysia and Singapore, for example, and about 33% to the Philippines, came from reinvested earnings.
The 10 ASEAN member States are Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People´s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam.
FDI data for the region as a whole, and for individual countries, will be updated regularly. The next major update is scheduled for early September.
