Responses to this year’s survey revealed that firms are cautious
in their reading of the current global investment environment. Investor
uncertainty appears to be high, with roughly half of respondents stating
that they were neutral or undecided about the state of the international
investment climate for 2012. However, although respondents who were
pessimistic about the global investment outlook for 2012 outnumbered
those who were optimistic by 10 percentage points, medium-term
prospects continued to hold relatively stable (figure 1).