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World needs new monetary and financial system for sustainable development era, new UNCTAD report argues
… The Trade and Development Report 2015: Making the international financial architecture … regaining financial stability and promoting productive investment. … OSG … World needs new monetary and financial system for sustainable …
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World Economic Situation and Prospects 2020
… At the September SDG Summit in New York, world leaders called for accelerated implementation of the … climate crisis at the top of the international agenda. The report stresses that investors underestimate the risks of … and are still making short-sighted decisions to expand investment into carbon-intensive assets. One of the primary …
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Foreign Direct Investment in LDCs
… The discussion in this report brings together, in a concise form, the extensive analysis of investment and investment policy trends in LDCs contained in annual editions of UNCTAD’s flagship World Investment Report (WIR). The summary report shows that …
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Investment trends and monitoring capacities across 10 SDG-investment sectors
… The Monitor analyzes directional trends in investment in the SDGs, following the 10 SDG-relevant sectors for which investment gaps were estimated in the World Investment Report 2014 (WIR14) - adding up to a total gap of $2.5 …
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Foreign direct investment in developing economies fell 9% in 2023
… Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to developing countries fell by 9% to … higher values in a few European ‘conduit’ economies,” the report says. Strikingly, when these conduit economies are … rise by 28%, trailing only the United States, the world’s largest FDI recipient. Greenfield numbers also surged …
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Investing in the energy transition: Countries need more balanced policies
… fuels to more sustainable energy sources. Its latest Investment Policy Monitor , released on 21 November, dives … limited to developed and large emerging economies. The report also shows that developed and emerging economies have … respectively. These findings echo the calls by UNCTAD’s World Investment Report 2023 and the 8th World Investment …
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Coronavirus: Let's not forget the world's poorest countries
… The novel coronavirus pandemic has rapidly thrown the world into uncharted territory. As COVID-19 diagnoses rise globally, the World Health Organization has reported more than 7,000 cases … countries are bracing for major falls in foreign direct investment and trade, as well as rising unemployment, the …
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Agencies win awards for promoting investment in the energy transition
… Ten investment promotion agencies and special economic zones … UN Investment Promotion Awards on 16 October at UNCTAD’s World Investment Forum 2023 . The winners hail from Brazil, … countries. According to UNCTAD’s World Investment Report 2023 , developing countries need renewable energy …
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World leaders call for stronger multilateral solutions to debt crisis
… achieving the 2030 Agenda and the climate transition the world desperately needs." Loading... UNCTAD advocates for the … this end,” Ms. Silva said. Four times the climate change investment needed in developing countries Estimates show that … mitigation in developing countries, according to an UNCTAD report . “The anachronistic global financial architecture …
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UNCTAD Chief says investment outlook subdued, urges investment for sustainable development
… Mukhisa Kituyi delivers keynote address at International Investment Forum, Xiamen, China Dr. Kituyi spoke before the … was "global value chains and development," and UNCTAD's World Investment Report 2013 served as Forum document, which was extensively …