Investment

We help countries attract foreign direct investment into areas where needs are greatest, to ensure prosperity for all.

Investment Policy Reviews

Investment statistics and trends

International Investment Agreements (IIAs)

Investment Facilitation and Promotion

News

Transforming trade, backing productive capacities is key to fixing global economy

UNCTAD Secretary-General sets down roadmap for health, productivity, prosperity and fixing a fractured global economy scarred by the coronavirus pandemic ahead of its October 2021 quadrennial conference in Barbados.

17 Dic 2020

Investment promotion agencies from Estonia, India and Rwanda receive UN awards for excellence in their COVID-19 responses

The Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency wins special recognition for mainstreaming gender in investment promotion.

7 Dic 2020

Israeli occupation cost Gaza $16.7 billion in past decade - UNCTAD estimates

Prolonged closure and military operations have left Gaza’s regional economy on the verge of collapse.

25 Nov 2020

Las repercusiones económicas por Covid-19 continuarán después de la crisis sanitaria, la UNCTAD advierte

El riesgo a que las desigualdades y vulnerabilidades se agraven mucho después de tener la vacuna disponible. La UNCTAD traza una hoja de ruta por una recuperación más inclusiva y mejor, enfatizando la necesidad de reformar las redes de producción global.

19 Nov 2020

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.