Changes of foreign direct investment in agribusiness in the Central-Eastern Europe at the early 2000's

The business experts could witness major changes in the targets of international capital flow during the last two decades. The Central-Eastern European economic and social transition that was started in the early 1990s has created good conditions for the international investments. The new target of foreign direct investments ñ besides the Asian regions ñ depended on the changes of political and economic system going on in the countries concerned. The different pace of changes and the privatization of state properties determined the share of individual countries from the capital import. The early eminent countries were replaced by new eminent ones, and the capital inflow replaced brown field investments ñ that dominated at the beginning ñ with green field investments. The paper examines the worldwide and regional tendencies of foreign direct investments of the 1990ís and the 2000ís, the share of individual countries within the region as well as the changes in the sectoral distribution. Relations are searched for the changes of position of Hungary, as well as among the economic-social processes in the country