International investments prospects for the period 2007-2009. Possible effects on the Romanian economy

This paper is focused on the main underlinings from the prospects survey of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) for the period 2007-2009 . These findings refer to the global trends in foreign direct investments (FDI) and determinants of future FDI flows; the prospective trends by host regions and countries; the FDI patterns by activities, home countries, modes of entry and the respective roles of globalization and regional integration. Particularly, this research has analyzed how the Romanian developing and transition economy should be affected by the inflows of world investments. UNCTAD has a controversy attitude about the FDI related prospects into South-East Europe and the CIS and it offers a mixed prospect for the period 2007-2009.globalization, foreign direct investment, emerging countries, regional integration