Foreign Direct Investment In The Current Crisis

This study highlights the importance of FDI for the global economy. The author considers the theoretical foundations of methods for assessing the investment attractiveness of regions. In today's difficult conditions of overcoming the global financial and economic crisis, the problem of assessing investment attractiveness is of particular relevance. Investments contribute to effective structural transformations in the economy, since the most promising sectors are most investment-attractive. New waves of the pandemic are holding back the investment processes. However, the trend towards an improvement of the investment attractiveness is continuing. The author provides statistical data on the current situation in the foreign direct investment market. The emphasis is placed on difficult economic, political, and financial conditions that play a negative role in the modern market of foreign direct investment. Despite a great variety of both Russian and foreign methods for assessing the investment attractiveness, it is difficult to choose an optimal one. There is no single accepted interpretation of investment attractiveness. In order to avoid foreign pressure, own methods for assessing the investment attractiveness have been developed; however, there is no single, legally approved method for assessing the investment attractiveness. The methodology for assessing the investment attractiveness should be understandable to potential investors and recipient parties.