Signal FDI rose to 72.5% of inflows to the six as portfolio share fell from 21.5% to 8.5%

Summary

For the six Southeast Asian growth markets taken together, the mix of incoming capital shifted sharply between 2017 to 2020 and 2021 to 2024. Foreign direct investment made up 72.5 percent of inflows in the later period, a rise of 15.1 percentage points. Portfolio inflows fell steeply, from 21.5 percent of the total to 8.5 percent. Bank-related and other inflows slipped to 19.1 percent, down 2.0 percentage points. The group has thus become much more reliant on long-term direct investment and less exposed to volatile portfolio money, though the report points out that the change was not uniform across the six.