Investment confi dence - Washington

Robert Whyte (second from right), the World Bank's global specialist in investment promotion, speaks at the launch event for the 2016 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Confidence Index, released by A.T. Kearney, a global management consulting firm, in Washington on Tuesday. With Whyte from left are Paul Laudicina, chairman of A.T. Kearney's Global Business Policy Council (GBPC); Shawn Donnan, Financial Times' world trade editor; and Erik Peterson, partner at A.T. Kearney and managing director of GBPC. The 2016 FDI Confidence Index, which results from a survey of global business executives, ranked China the second-best place for attracting foreign investment after the United States, for four consecutive years. Cai Chunying / China Daily