Investment and Enterprise

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 biennial World Investment Forum.

The Division maintains an interactive World Investment Network of over 9,000 members to disseminate and promote its work on investment and enterprise.

 

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13 June 2013UNCTAD deputy chief addresses Tunisia Investment Forum
The organization's Deputy Secretary General told an audience of 2,000, many of them potential investors, of the importance of investment for sustainable economic growth in the wake of the Tunisian Revoluntion.
IIA Issues Note
27 May 2013UNCTAD puts forward reform options for investor-State dispute settlement system
UNCTAD is calling for collective efforts to assess options for reform of the current system of investor-State dispute settlement.
Investment Commission
06 May 2013Ministers, other high officials discuss vital role played by entrepreneurship in economic growth
The founding of new businesses, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), makes economies more stable, spurs economic growth, and plays a major role in innovation and job creation, a series of experts has said.
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06 May 2013Viet Nam to establish Empretec centre, bringing global total of entrepreneurship sites to 34
A 34th national centre is to be established for an UNCTAD-administered programme that has proved to be highly successful in training and supporting entrepreneurs in developing countries.
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02 May 2013Mozambique discusses plans to boost its attraction of investment
A high-level delegation from Mozambique told the Investment, Enterprise and Development Commission Tuesday that its Government supports the recommendations made in UNCTAD's Investment Policy Review of the country, which call - among other things - for reforms to investment law.
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01 May 2013Djibouti officials pledge reforms as final version of Investment Policy Review is unveiled
High-level representatives of the Government of Djibouti said Tuesday that the recommendations in UNCTAD's Investment Policy Review (IPR) of the country - including adoption of a new investment code based on international best practices - will be put into effect.
Investment Commission
29 April 2013Three national investment promotion agencies honored
UNCTAD has presented awards to the Investment Promotion Agencies of Jamaica, Latvia, and Oman for helping their countries to link effectively into global value chains.
26 April 2013UNCTAD officials address ECOSOC on development financing

UNCTAD officials have spoken at a high-level meeting of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), addressing the topics of investment for sustainable development, and post-2015 development partnerships.​

25 April 2013UNCTAD participates in high-level meeting on debt sustainability

UNCTAD’s Secretary-General and the Head of the Organization’s Debt and Development Finance Branch have spoken on sovereign debt issues at a special Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) event.

IIA Issues Note
10 April 2013UNCTAD publishes its annual review of investor-State dispute settlement cases
The year 2012 marked a new record, with at least 62 new investment arbitration cases being initiated against host countries - the highest number of known treaty-based disputes ever filed in one year.
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