A spectre is haunting the global economic system. “Phantom” foreign direct investment now accounts for 40 per cent of the global stock of foreign direct investment, or around $15tn in total, according to IMF research. This capital, equivalent to the annual national income of China and Germany combined, plays no productive role in the economies which host it, instead it is moved around the world purely to reduce big companies’ tax bills.
一個幽靈正困擾著全球經濟體系。根據國際貨幣基金組織(IMF)的研究，「幻影」外商直接投資(FDI)目前佔全球FDI存量的40%，總價值約爲15兆美元。這相當於中德兩國年度國民收入的總和，但這些資本在接收投資的經濟體中沒有發揮任何成效。相反，這些世界範圍內的資本轉移純粹是爲了減少大型企業的稅單。
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