Trend Developing regions diverge in capital mix while Southeast Asia's six concentrate on FDI

Summary

This trend describes developing regions moving in different directions in the kind of capital they attract. Comparing 2017 to 2020 with 2021 to 2024, developing Europe shifted toward bank-related and other financing, which reached 61.4 percent of its inflows. Latin America and the Caribbean kept a fairly stable mix anchored in foreign direct investment. The six Southeast Asian growth markets raised their FDI share from 57.4 percent to 72.5 percent. Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and Central Asia also became more concentrated in FDI, so capital mix is increasingly a regional rather than a uniform pattern.