The negative growth was also attributed to repayments of intra-company loans by foreign subsidiaries and/or reduction in the equity of foreign subsidiaries controlled by Singaporean TNCs. This latter phenomenon represents negative outflows of FDI from host countries back to Singapore.
负增长的另一原因是国外子公司偿还公司内部债务和新加坡跨国公司控股的国外子公司股本数额减少，后者表明资本从东道国流回新加坡。