Despite turmoil in the global economy, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's Global Investment Trends monitor reported a value increase for FDI inflows in 2011, to $1510bn.

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Latest IMF World Economic Outlook signals that developing Asian economies will continue to dominate the global recovery.

A HSBC report predicts that global growth will increasingly be powered by emerging markets until 2050.

China and India top AT Kearney's 2012 FDI Confidence Index, while the US drops to fourth.

For eight years, software and IT services has been the most popular sector for inward FDI in Brazil. This changed in 2011, however, when the industrial machinery, equipment and tools sector recorded a record number of projects.

As the coal, oil and natural gas sector struggles for capital investment around the world, China has recorded a 100% increase for 2011.

Across the US there remain attractive investment opportunities for global businesses. But with an entrenched public workforce seen to be the reason for increases in tax expenses, where those opportunities lie is less clear, writes Daniel Malachuk.

A survey of global senior executives shows that sentiment towards FDI  in emerging economies is far more positive than in developed economies,  with China, India and Brazil registering the first, second and third highest ranking.