The COVID-19 pandemic has led, in addition to dramatic health implications for people around the globe, to an almost immediate and profound economic upheaval in many economies. The health and economic crises have governments scrambling for responses to limit the damage and impact on their societies and economies.

This page gathers initial responses from the OECD investment policy community as economies around the world address the crisis and prepare for the recovery. These notes contribute to the OECD co-ordinated policy response.

OECD investment policy responses to COVID-19

This note considers the implications and challenges for international investment and offers initial responses from the OECD investment policy community as economies around the world address the crisis and prepare for the recovery.

Foreign Direct Investment Flows in the time of COVID-19 

This policy brief considers the implications and challenges of the COVID-19 crisis for international investment. The note reviews initial responses from the OECD investment policy community as economies around the world address the crisis and prepare for the recovery. 

This policy brief examines the upheaval resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has led many governments to enhance their foreign investment screening mechanisms or introduce new ones. This reviews changes to investment screening policy practice and to the way governments and societies view the benefits and risks associated with foreign investment.

COVID-19 and Global Capital Flows: OECD Report to G20 International Financial Architecture Working Group

This report presents recent capital flow developments during the COVID-19 crisis and serves as a background paper to the G20 International Financial Working Group meeting on 24 June 2020.

OECD Investment Promotion Agencies in the time of Covid-19 | Japanese 

This note reviews the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on international investment flows and government responses. It summarises the findings of the OECD IPA Network meeting on 9 April 2020 and outlines short-term and long-term responses.

Uniendo fuerzas en América Latina y el Caribe para ayudar a minimizar la crisis del Coronavirus (COVID-19) y fomentar empresas responsables y sostenibles

Esta declaración conjunta subraya el compromiso de las organizaciones internacionales de apoyar a los Estados de América Latina y el Caribe, a las empresas, a las organizaciones de empleadores y de trabajadores, así como a otras partes interesadas, para abordar los desafíos sin precedentes que plantea la pandemia del COVID-19.

Maria Borga, Head of the FDI Statistics Unit of the OECD Investment Division, looks at FDI Flows in the time of COVID-19

Webinar on Foreign Direct Investment Flows in the time of COVID-19 

Webinar on investment screening in times of COVID-19 – and beyond

• FDI in Figures, April 2020

• More OECD work on FDI

• More COVID-19 responses from the OECD