World Investment Directory 1996

UNCTAD's World Investment Directory is exactly what it sounds like — a dense, country-level reference compiling foreign direct investment flows, stocks, and policy frameworks from 1996. For its intended audience of economists and policy researchers at the time of publication, it was an authoritative source, and the series remains widely cited in academic literature. But let's be straightforward: the data is thirty years old, which limits its practical value today almost entirely to historical research. There is no narrative, no general readability, and the specific regional scope of this volume could not be fully confirmed from available sources. If you need a snapshot of late-1990s FDI policy for scholarly work, this is the right tool. Everyone else should look elsewhere.