Annual print publication from the International Finance Corporation (IFC: see separate entry), covering public and private investment data (by country). Offers a descriptive analysis of trends in the last 12 months, plus statistical tables covering the last 5 years and graphs covering the period since 1970. Each issue also focuses on a specific issues (1970-95 volume focuses on progress in privatisation)

The statistical dataset (i.e. excluding the analysis) for the whole period and for 44 countries can be downloaded from the IFC WWW site. Data is in compressed Lotus format. Data for each country is: GDP, private investment as percentage of GDP, public investment as percentage of GDP, local currency per US dollar “pavq”

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