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The Division is recognized as a global centre of excellence on issues related to investment and enterprise for sustainable development. Built on several decades of successful experience, its staff provide international expertise in research and policy analysis, inter-governmental consensus-building, and technical assistance to over 150 countries. Its flagship product is the annual World Investment Report and its main global stakeholder event is the biannual World Investment Forum. The Division also maintains the interactive World Investment Network of over 9,000 members to disseminate and promote all its work on investment and enterprise.

News

26 Oct 11 - Joint UNCTAD-OECD report calls for coordinating short-term crisis management with efforts to encourage long-term productive investment

UNCTAD-OECD Report comes at a time when the global economic recovery faces new challenges, possibly slowing FDI growth in the second half of 2011.

18 Oct 11 - EMPRETEC boosting entrepreneurship and creating jobs

The 18th Directors Meeting of EMPRETEC, the entrepreneurship programme in developing countries supported by UNCTAD, will take place in Pretoria, South Africa, from 18 to 21 October 2011, bringing together entrepreneurs from across Africa and centre direc

18 Oct 11 - FDI recovery continued in the first half of 2011, but second-half prospects are bleaker

UNCTAD Global Investment Trends Monitor remains cautiously optimistic for the full year of 2011, projecting FDI flows close to the pre-crisis average, though still remaining some 25 per cent below the 2007 peak. Downside risks, however, have intensified.

13 Oct 11 - Latest UNCTAD Investment Policy Monitor released

Joint UNCTAD-OECD report, the sixth since September 2009, analyses G20 countries investment policy measures undertaken in the past 6 months.

24 May 11 - G20 countries continue to honour their pledge not to retreat into investment protectionism

The UNCTAD-OECD Report on G20 Investment Measures concludes that the majority of the G20 countries national policy measures undertaken during the reporting period eliminated restrictions to international investment and/or improved clarity for foreign inv

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