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Students on their way to school in Bangladesh.

COVID-19 recovery a chance to remake society for a better future

UNCTAD reflects on the past two years of the pandemic to derive valuable lessons for the future.

24 Jun 2022

Regulation rising as financial markets tackle climate risks

An UNCTAD report shows that adoption of policy measures and regulations dedicated to sustainable finance accelerated in 2021.

9 Jun 2022

Construction of Yogyakarta International Airport in Indonesia

Foreign investment in developing Asia hit a record $619 billion in 2021

Despite successive waves of COVID-19, FDI flows to the region grew for the third consecutive year, with developing economies in Asia receiving 40% of global foreign investment inflows.

9 Jun 2022

Investment flows to Africa reached a record $83 billion in 2021

The continent saw foreign direct investment rebound strongly after the fall in 2020 caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

9 Jun 2022

World Investment Report

The Report focuses on trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) worldwide, at the regional and country levels and emerging measures to improve its contribution to development.

It also provides analysis on global value chains and the operations of multinational enterprises, with special attention to their development implications.

Overviews of the report are also available in all official UN languages.

Transnational Corporations Journal

Transnational Corporations is a longstanding policy-oriented refereed research journal on issues related to investment, multinational enterprises and development.

It is an official journal of the United Nations, managed by UNCTAD.

As such it has a global reach, a strong development policy imprint, and high potential for impact beyond the scholarly community.

Report on G20 investment measures

The leaders of the G20, which comprises the world’s largest economies, are firmly committed to open trade and investment and to resisting protectionism in all its forms.

They have mandated WTO, OECD and UNCTAD – the leading international organisations in the area of international trade and investment policies – to monitor policy developments and report publicly on these commitments.