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

By Ian Richards, Economist, UNCTAD

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement comes at a time of major upheaval caused by COVID-19 and could help revive economic growth.

A new online single window system for business registration in Iraq is supporting an entrepreneurial environment during COVID-19.

The biggest drops occurred in developed countries, cutting across all major forms of foreign direct investment.

COVID-19 causes steep drop in investment flows, hitting developing countries hardest. Recovery is not expected before 2022, says new UNCTAD report.

New UNCTAD report shows reshoring, diversification and regionalization will drive restructuring of global value chains in the coming years.

COVID-19 shock sends ripples across sectors, with commodities, tourism and transportation among the most severely hit, new UNCTAD report reveals.

Lockdown measures and factory stoppages in the wake of COVID-19 have severely impacted supply chain and factories’ production in the region.

All industries on the continent are reeling from the double blow of the coronavirus pandemic and low commodity prices, UNCTAD’s new report says.