Introduction
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is starting to shift more and more towards services; these services are also becoming more traditional. Almost all the countries in the world are affected by the rise of services FDI and the broad-based growth of service TNCs. The off-shoring of export-oriented services such as call centers, business processes, drawing, testing and even research and development (R&D) are gathering speed in response to the “tradability revolution” in services. Some of the off-shoring is done internally by moving services from parent companies to its foreign affiliates, while some are outsourced internationally to third-party services providers (UNCTAD, 2006).

Offshoring and its impact on FDI

Outward FDI may arise as the offshoring of services gathers more speed and touches more and more white-collar workers. Advances in information and communications technology (ICT) have made all information-intensive services more tradable: they can now be......

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Title: Fdi Trends
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