ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS M oachim Karl.Dong Jae Lee,Guoyong Liang.Michael Lim,Padma Mallampally,Hafiz Mirza,Nicole Principal research assistance was provided by Mohamed Chiraz Baly.Bradley Boicourt.Jovan ur vame rs at va published Teresita Ventura.It was edited by Praveen Bhalla. John H.Dunning was the senior economic adviser. WIR06 benefited 2006 Seminar in Geneva in May City,Mexico (n o with Reginald Rumney and the Edge Institute). Inputs were also received from Emin Akcaoglu,Bekele Amare,Frank Bartels,Yannis Berthouzoz Kady.Gachino.Celso Stephen Gelb.Andrea Gold Jost,Georg Kell,Kee Beom Kim,Ari Kokko,Julia Lewis,Mina Mashayekhi.John Mathews.Anthony ved during ation fr s Arruda.Dilek Avku ohn Da niels,Maria de los Angele Pozas Ivanics,Josephat Kweka,Seong-Bong Lee,Robert Lipse ey,Kari Liuhto,Aimable Uwizeye Mapendanc re,Peter i Naidu Estelle Rey.Reginald Rumney.Tagi Sa gafi-Nejad,Mona Salim Bseiso,Yai Sriratana,Marjan Svetlicic Mazen M.Tineh,Len Trevino,Judit Vadasz,Joerg Weber,Henry Yeung and Zbigniew Zimny. nal o xecutives of a number of companies,also contributed toespecially through the provision of ata and othe heegmation e collection o The financial support of the Governments of Norway and Sweden is gratefully acknowledged. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The World Investment Report 2006 (WIR06) was prepared by a team led by Anne Miroux and comprising Kumi Endo, Torbjörn Fredriksson, Masataka Fujita, Masayo Ishikawa, Kálmán Kalotay, Joachim Karl, Dong Jae Lee, Guoyong Liang, Michael Lim, Padma Mallampally, Hafiz Mirza, Nicole Moussa, Abraham Negash, Hilary Nwokeabia, Shin Ohinata, Jean-François Outreville, Thomas Pollan and James Zhan. Principal research assistance was provided by Mohamed Chiraz Baly, Bradley Boicourt, Jovan Licina, Lizanne Martinez and Tadelle Taye. Anne-Christine Charon, Michael Karschnia, Elodie Laurent and Arthur van de Kamp assisted as interns at various stages. The production of the WIR06 was carried out by Severine Excoffier, Chantal Rakotondrainibe and Katia Vieu. WIR06 was desktop published by Teresita Ventura. It was edited by Praveen Bhalla. John H. Dunning was the senior economic adviser. WIR06 benefited from inputs provided by participants in a Global Seminar in Geneva in May 2006, and three regional seminars on FDI from developing countries held in April 2006: one in Mexico City, Mexico (in cooperation with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Government of Mexico), the second in Chiang Mai, Thailand (in cooperation with the ASEAN Secretariat and the Government of Thailand), and the third in Johannesburg, South Africa (in cooperation with Reginald Rumney and the Edge Institute). Inputs were also received from Emin Akçaoglu, Bekele Amare, Frank Bartels, Yannis Berthouzoz, Peter Buckley, Hamed El-Kady, Geoffrey Gachino, Celso Garrido, Stephen Gelb, Andrea Goldstein, Kathryn Gordon, Vishwas Govitrikar, Carrie Hall, Susan Hayter, Daisuke Hiratsuka, Veena Jha, Thomas Jost, Georg Kell, Kee Beom Kim, Ari Kokko, Julia Lewis, Mina Mashayekhi, John Mathews, Anthony Miller, Rekha Misra, Toh Mun Heng, Ramón Padilla, Pavida Pananond, Neil Patterson, Jenny Rydeman, Frans Paul van der Putten, Kee Hwee Wee, Sun Wenjie, Bing Xiang and Tham Siew Yean. Comments were received during various stages of preparation from Carlos Arruda, Dilek Aykut, Rashmi Banga, Diana Barrowclough, Joseph Battat, David Benavides, Peter Brimble, Douglas Brooks, Gregorio Canales Ramirez, John Cassidy, Refik Culpan, John Daniels, Maria de los Angeles Pozas, Ping Deng, Diana Farrell, Axèle Giroud, Ulrich Grosch, Wuping Guo, Guner Gursoy, Sireen Hikmat, Gábor Hunya, Yao-Su Hu, Moses Ikiara, Bharat Joshi, Anna Joubin Bret, Metin Kilci, Annamaria Kokeny Ivanics, Josephat Kweka, Seong-Bong Lee, Robert Lipsey, Kari Liuhto, Aimable Uwizeye Mapendano, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, Michael Mortimore, Peter Muchlinski, Sanusha Naidu, Kishore Nair, Rajneesh Narula, Abdoulaye Niang, Peter Nunnenkamp, Gerald Pachoud, Sheila Page, Fernando Porta, Marie￾Estelle Rey, Reginald Rumney, Tagi Sagafi-Nejad, Mona Salim Bseiso, Yai Sriratana, Marjan Svetlicic, Mazen M. Tineh, Len Treviño, Judit Vadasz, Joerg Weber, Henry Yeung and Zbigniew Zimny. Numerous officials of central banks, statistical offices, investment promotion and other government agencies, and officials of international organizations and non-governmental organizations, as well as executives of a number of companies, also contributed to WIR06, especially through the provision of data and other information. The Report also benefited from collaboration with Erasmus University, Rotterdam on the collection of data on, and analysis of, the largest TNCs. The financial support of the Governments of Norway and Sweden is gratefully acknowledged