Sovereign wealth global investment announcements by country (2007-2020)

This dataset contains structured information on sovereign wealth global investment announcements between 2007 and 2020 aggregated from project-level data provided by the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds. Each record includes the year of announcement, the geographic region, and the total investment value. The dataset is accompanied by a Python script that aggregates and visualises investment trends across regions, producing a time‑series plot included in the repository.
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The data were transcribed from a spreadsheet of investment announcements and standardised for research use. Regions include Eastern Asia, Eastern Europe, Northern America, Western Europe, South‑central, South‑east, Oceania, Global, Africa, and others.
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The code file provides a fully reproducible workflow for cleaning, aggregating, and visualising the data. The visual output illustrates temporal patterns in investment activity across world regions from 2007 to 2020.
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Restrictions:<br>
Semi-structured elite interviews were also conducted however the interview data associated with this project cannot be made accessible due to its sensible nature.
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Project Description: <br>
This project asks the research question How does state capital transnationalise? wherein the state is a market actor itself. The transformative potential of state capitalism remains a debated issue. What constitutes state capitalism, specifically Chinese state capitalism, is ambiguous to begin with. More to the point, it is often conflated with statism, which over-privileges the strategic coherency of the state in the face of the conflict-ridden, multi-scalar and multi-actor processes imbricated in the reproduction of state capital. This project contributes to a growing body of literature that emphasises the hybridity of its transnational expansion as simultaneously state-led and convergent on the liberal international order and (neo) liberal capitalism. Using Chinese foreign investment as the empirical lens, I outline three domains in which the legitimation imperatives faced by state-owned entities and sovereign wealth funds shapes their interests and investment behaviour: the party state apparatus, the global financial profession and the investment recipient/host context in Europe.