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Transnational Corporations (Vol. 23, No.3)
… ARTICLES Foreign direct investment as a catalyst for domestic firm development: the … tax avoidance from the 1960s to the 1980s by Matti Ylönen WORLD INVESTMENT REPORT 2016: INVESTOR NATIONALITY: POLICY CHALLENGES BOOK …
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United Nations urges end to austerity, calls for ambition to rebalance global economy and achieve prosperity for all
… Launching the Trade and Development Report 2017 , UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi said, … the global level has hampered sustained expansion of the world economy". The report states that people should be put … finance to support job creation and infrastructure investment will be key to such a makeover. Good times, bad …
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UNCTAD sets out pathways to ease commodity dependence for greener, inclusive growth
… benefits. UNCTAD’s Commodities and Development Report 2023 , published on 9 October, spotlights the actions … will need to remain unused. That would be one third of the world’s oil, half of natural gas and over 80% of coal … include policies on trade, industrialization, export and investment promotion, infrastructure development, education, …
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Finland signs off on its 2014-2015 contribution to UNCTAD
… for development: ICT and Law Reform Information Economy Report Capacity building in investment for development: Primarily used in support of the World Investment Report Series and the EMPRETEC and Business …
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Qatar affirms commitment to achieving UNCTAD goals
… The Minister presented a report of the UNCTAD session, saying that the Conference had … crisis and related financial challenges confronting the world, and was aimed at finding different alternatives and … meeting on women in the context of development and a world investment forum. The Minister reported that compromise on …
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Managing capital could provide a US$680bn annual windfall for financing 2030 agenda
… A new UN report highlights how unrestrained private capital flows can … “In reality, channelling finance into long-term productive investment will not happen without a leading role of the … which is the average of current nominal rates across the world. To distribute the revenues from such reformed …
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TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS (Vol.3, No.2)
… Notes ARTICLES Edward M. Graham Towards an Asia-Pacific investment code Jamuna Prasad Agarwal The effects of the … Division on Transnational Corporations and Investment World Investment Report 1994: Transnational Corporations, Employment and the …
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COP28: First-ever ‘Trade Day’ puts focus on trade in climate action
… UNCTAD Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan said. “As the world is coping with the devastating effects of global … critical minerals Ahead of Trade Day, UNCTAD published a report on trade flows of critical minerals in global value … UNCTAD contributed to Trade Day in partnership with the World Trade Organization, the International Chamber of …
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Investor uncertainty looms over sustainable development goals
… hit developing economies last year, with foreign direct investment flows dropping 14 percentage points even as their … stock of old-generation treaties (chapter III of the World Investment Report 2017) Road Map for IIA Reform Global Action Menu for …
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Bold action required to finance a global green new deal and meet the SDGs
… policies that scale up the resources needed for a big investment push led by the public sector and set the global … expansionary course, says UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Report 2019 , launched today. “The global economy does not … climate is already causing severe damage across the world and posing an existential threat. Decarbonizing the …