FDI destination

The FDI Model developed by Ronald Wall at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) / Erasmus University Rotterdam. Animation was created with Alex Levering. This 3D-GIS animation depicts total foreign direct investment (FDI) received by 1200 cities around the world (2003 - 2014). It is also know as destination FDI. It is based on data by fDi Markets, ORBIS and IHS-Erasmus University. FDI is the investment made by multinational firms in particular cities, into production, control, service and marketing facilities in other cities around the world. These flows of capital tie world cities together into an extremely complex but hierarchic network. FDI is one of the key indicators of a cities integration into the world economy and it explains about 50% of global GDP. These foreign investments are in most cases beneficial to urban development, but can sometimes have a negative impact. Through econometric and GIS analysis I aim to measure the effect of FDI on global cities, or alternatively try to measure the factors which attract these investment to cities. Based on these outcomes I develop urban recommendations and policy how to support a city's economic growth.and make it more competitive. In this globe we see that the world economy is not becoming more homogeneous, but instead that the geographic distribution of FDI is very uneven. It is evident that the global north holds most investment, while the majority of the world's population is in the global south. It is also seen that the highest density of investment is in Europe, North America and Pacific Asia. Understanding the urban determinants of FDI flows (for different industrial sectors) is one of the key challenges in developing truly sustainable cities. Only when we address cities as being part of complex regional and global systems can we really take on this challenge. It is this economic system that forms the backbone of the predicaments of climate change and rising inequality at local, regional and global levels. With big data availability and available algorithms an era has arrived where it becomes possible to technically and politically address the functional performance and structural geography of this disproportionately distributed worldwide system. This research forms part of the upcoming UN-Habitat "State of African Cities 2017" report. This work forms part of the Urban Competitiveness and Resilience (UCR) department at the Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) / Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), The Netherlands. The UCR team consists of Ronald Wall (Department Head), Monserrat Budding-Polo Ballinas, Dorcas Nthoki, Marina Salimgareeva, Taslim Alade. Related links: http://unhabitat.org/urban-knowledge/... https://advancedurbandesign.com/ http://www.ihs.nl/about_ihs/ihs_staff... http://www.ihs.nl/prospective_student...