Innovations in Foreign Direct Investment Attraction

JEL codes: F1, F10, F23

Key words: Foreign Direct Investment, Economic Development, Promotion Agen-

cies, Investment Promotion, Investment Attraction  

1  Henry Loewendahl is Group CEO of WAVTEQ, a leading consulting firm providing services and tools to assist governments in attracting FDI and multinational enter-

prises in optimizing their corporate location strategy. He has 20 years of experience in FDI and has advised more than 150 governments and multinational enterprises in 60 

countries. He has authored over 50 publications on FDI and has been an expert to the World Bank, UNCTAD, Financial Times, and the Columbia Center on Sustainable In-

vestment. This publication was prepared for the Trade and Integration Network meeting of the Regional Policy Dialogue of the Inter-American Development Bank on June 

7-8, 2016. This publication has been made possible with the financing of the Technical Cooperation ATN/FI-15518-RG-9, with the contribution of the People’s Republic 

of China. The author would like to thank the investment promotion agencies for their help in developing the case studies of their best practices and innovative approaches.

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