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Latest publications

Cover for Division on Investment and Enterprise: Results and Impact Report 2024

Division on Investment and Enterprise: Results and Impact Report 2024

Cover for Promoting International Investment by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Promoting International Investment by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

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Entrepreneurs riding the wave of circularity

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Angola: Report on the multistakeholder dialogue of the elaboration of the national entrepreneurship policy

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Videos and podcasts

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Areas of work

Special initiative

The Square for Global Goals

Project

Strengthening sustainability reporting in Asia and Latin America

Meetings

ISAR IGE on international standards of accounting and reporting, 42nd session

12 – 14 November 2025

Intergovernmental working group of experts on international standards of accounting and reporting, 42nd session

Geneva, Switzerland

13 – 16 October 2025

Empretec LogiHub Accelerator

Gambia Investment & Export Promotion Agency (GIEPA), Banjul, The Gambia

6 – 10 October 2025

Empretec LogiHub Pre-Accelerator

Gambia Investment & Export Promotion Agency (GIEPA), Banjul, The Gambia

3 July 2025

FFD4 side event: Financial inclusion for entrepreneurship development - bridging the formal-informal divide

24 – 26 June 2025

Empretec Fundraising Crash Course

Dulani Business Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

22 – 26 June 2025

Empretec LogiHub Pre-Accelerator

Dulani Business Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

All meetings and events

Documents

30 Oct 2024

Report of the Multi-year Expert Meeting on Investment, Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Productive Capacity-building and Sustainable Development on its eleventh session

04 Sep 2024

Division on Investment and Enterprise: Results and Impact Report 2024

English

09 Aug 2024

ISAR Update – July 2024

English

22 Jul 2024

Business development services for conducive business ecosystems in support of sustainable development

Resolutions and Reports of the UN Secretary-General

Resolution 79/201: Entrepreneurship for sustainable development

A/RES/79/201 - 23 Dec 2024

Entrepreneurship for sustainable development

Report of the Secretary-General

A/79/208 - 22 Jul 2024

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