Development Finance International

DFI has produced a series of technical briefings to assist countries with more detailed technical issues. Most have been published in the Financing Strategies for Development Newsletter.

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Codes and country status

• “Making FPC Data Available”, Strategies for Financing Development # 34 (page 15)
• “BPM6: Developments and Implications”, Strategies for Financing Development #36 (page 13)
• “International Data Codes and Standards”, in Monitoring and Analysing Foreign Investment (Chapter 4)
  
  

Methodology

• How to Estimate Market Values of Equity Capital, Strategies for Financing Development #16 (page 16)
• “How are the Book Values of Equity Capital Calculated in the BOP and IIP?” Strategies for Financing Development #15 (page 16)
• “Non-Survey Reporting Mechanisms for FPC”, Strategies for Financing Development #32 (pages 12-3)
  
  

Investor perception and CSR

• “Why Survey Investors’ Perceptions?”, Strategies for Financing Development #22 (pages 14-15)
  
  

Software

• “FPC CBP Completes Transfer of Generic Software”, Strategies for Financing Development #37 (page 13)
• “5.4. Recording and Compilation Software”, in Monitoring and Analysing Foreign Investment: How to build sustainable institutions (pages 39-40)
  
  

Register, sampling, time series and quarterly estimates

• “Accessing And Using International FAL Data Sources”, Strategies for Financing Development #30 (page 15)
• “International Use of CBP Data”, Strategies for Financing Development #29 (pages 14-15)
• “Creating Reliable Time Series: Lessons from Malawi”, Strategies for Financing Development #27 (page 15)
• “How to Estimate Survey Coverage”, Strategies for Financing Development #23 (page 15)
• “How do Countries Sample FAL Enterprises?”, Strategies for Financing Development #20 (page 15)
• “How do Countries Build Registers and Samples?”, Strategies for Financing Development #19 (pages 15-16)

Analysis and policy

• “Monitoring and Analysing the Financial Crisis”, Strategies for Financing Development #38 (pages 14-15)
• “Analysing Sustainability of Foreign Private Capital”, Strategies for Financing Development #37 (pages 14-15)
• “Designing An FPC Policy Action Plan”, Strategies for Financing Development #35
• “How Should Countries Analyse Corporate Social Responsibility?”, Strategies for Financing Development #28 (pages 14-15)
• “Policy Impacts of the FPC CBP”, Strategies for Financing Development #24 (page 14)
• “Why Survey Investors’ Perceptions?”, Strategies for Financing Development #22 (pages 14-15) 
• “FPC Analysis and Action Plans”, in Monitoring and Analysing Foreign Investment: How to build sustainable institutions, Chapter 6