Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
Annual Investment Meeting - Plenary Session on Investment Partnership and New Forms of FDI
… session on Investment Partnerships and New Forms of FDI. Today, I would like to speak to you about the issue of … investment trends and for investment policy going forward. As you know, we have experienced tectonic shifts in the … a new high of $759 billion, or 52% of total global FDI inflows. On the other hand, for the second consecutive year, …
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Identifying and Promoting Regional Value Chains in Leather and Leather Products in Africa
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… added ECOWAS Economic Community West African States FDI foreign direct investment FTA Free Trade Agreement FVA foreign added GDP gross domestic product GIMPA Ghana Institute Management … 42 6.2 FDI inflows … 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 REGIONAL VALUE CHAINS IN THE ERA OF GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS important challenges facing Africa …
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Excessive commodity price volatility: Macroeconomic effects on growth and policy options Contribution from the UNCTAD secretariat to the G20 Commodity Markets Working Group
… COUNTRIES AND COUNTRY GROUPS ……………….. 7 3. THE EVOLUTION OF THE TERMS OF TRADE ……………………….. 10 3.1 Trends aggregate … natural resource endowments foreign direct investment (FDI), hand, government appropriation fair share rents … fundamentals. overshooting driven short-term capital inflows basis carry trade speculation profits interest rate …
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… summary report overview trends foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, emphasis developed countries (LDCs), overview … crisis developing countries Russian Federation, global FDI inflows increased 39 cent, 1997, $644 billion. growth fueled … Item 3 provisional agenda TRENDS IN FDI AND WAYS AND MEANS OF ENHANCING FDI FLOWS TO AND AMONG DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, IN …
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Member States and civil society call for reform of investor state dispute settlement
… provision of international investment agreements, emerged as a key issue at the World Investment Forum. Many member … the country was the world's fifth largest recipient of FDI in 2013, with inflows of $64 billion according to the 2014 World Investment …
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Trade in Services and Employment
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… publishing. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS FDI Foreign direct investment GDP Gross domestic product ILO … comparative advantages services trade. . SALIENT FEATURES OF THE SERVICES SECTOR services sector main economic activity … decades (figure 9) account large share services trade. FDI inflows developing countries accounted 37 cent world FDI …
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Trade and Development Report 2009
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… board FAo Food Agriculture organization United Nations FDi foreign direct investment FDiC Federal Deposit insurance … services, dependence primary commodity exports inflows migrants’ remittances. developing emerging-market … doc10008/03-02-Macro_Effects_of_ARRA.pdf. 38 occasion, Federal Reserve authorized …
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WORLD INVESTMENT REPORT 2016: INVESTOR NATIONALITY: POLICY CHALLENGES
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… OVERVIEW GLOBAL INVESTMENT TRENDS recovery global FDI strong 2015 Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows … ( 84 cent) $962 billion, $522 billion 2014. Strong growth inflows reported Europe. United States FDI quadrupled, albeit … (thousands) 21 454 49 565 72 239 76 821 79 505 Memorandum GDP 22 327 51 288 75 887 77 807 73 152 Gross fixed capital …
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President’s summary: Key development challenges facing the LDCs: Follow-up to the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries and preparations for the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries
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… developing countries, enhanced foreign investment inflows, higher - foreign aid advances physical … progressive composition gross domestic product (GDP), diversification exports, reduction commodity … change LDC economies. Flow foreign direct investment (FDI) remained concentrated extractive industries, petroleum. …
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Concluding Summary of the Ad hoc Expert Group Meeting - UNLDC IV: key development challenges facing the LDCs (18-19 February 2010)
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… Promotion discussions highlighted important role FDI LDC economies: share FDI percentage domestic investment … Greenfield investments. "crowding " effect FDIs inflows LDCs occurs fostering domestic investment, linkages … OHRLLS. … TD/B/EX(49)/CRP.1 … Concluding Summary of the Ad hoc Expert Group Meeting - UNLDC IV: key …