Developing countries recieve $1tn of finance

This flow of finance is made up of Foreign Direct Investment (multinationals investing in developing countries), Overseas Development assistance (Aid) and financial flows (hot money).

Naturally governments would prefer to encourage direct investment by companies rather than the vagaries of hot money going into stock markets and currencies.

Countries like Brazil, India and China (the BRIC countries) tend to do well, whereas Sub-Saharan Africa tend not to attract much investment. The rest of the article from the BBC is here