Investment reference services

The funding of public and community health services also requires substantial reorganization in order to ensure a balance between investment in prevention and investment in personal remedial services.

World Investment Report 2004 The Shift Towards Services.

Quality, effectiveness and transparency in water sector administration Sustainability of investment and services.

Of the several IPA functions, investment services and facilitation are the most important.

World Investment Report The Shift towards Services (UNCTAD WIR 2004).

The Agency's services to the refugees constituted an essential investment.

For example, effective investment promotion calls for skills in marketing while efficient investment services require a business background.

UNCTAD, World Investment Report 2004. The Shift Towards Services, New York and Geneva, 2004.

Technical assistance was also provided from databases in trade in goods and services trade in services competition policies trade and environment and investment regimes.

Table 7. Summary by object of expenditure Investment costs Contractual services

4 Investment Framework Information Services (INT 97 A38, France) 27 13

Pension Fund, Investment Management Services, 6,476 square feet in New York

(e) 35,000 under communications, for additional special connections and for new services requiring contracting by the Investment Management Service for Internet services

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) was adopted in 1994 and is the first trade agreement to cover investment in services.44 It provides a legal framework for trade in services, defined to cover a range of areas, including investment, financial services, communications, transportation, education, energy, water and movement of persons.

UNCTAD (2004b). World Investment Report 2004 The Shift towards Services. New York and Geneva United Nations.

Technology issues were addressed relative to their interrelationship with trade in goods and services, investment, finance and environment.

The 1990s certainly witnessed a significant increase in the global integration of goods, services and investment flows.

It also called for the progressive liberalization of regulations that impede trade and investment in services.45

(e) To enhance intraregional and intersubregional flows of trade, investment and technology, inter alia, through the strengthening of networks of institutional support services, including regional information services.

Since the investment activities do not involve pension secretariat services, the United Nations would not absorb any of the costs of investment audits.

This order included a ban on bank services, financial investment, the import and export of goods and services and the prohibition of the issuance of visas for Iranian merchants

The remainder covers the cost of the provision of audit, payroll, investment, and treasury and accounting services by UNOG.

The key to reducing poverty was sustainable development strategies that included investment in rural areas and social services.

The REIO exceptions in MFN treatment clauses (forthcoming) International Investment Agreements and Services FDI (forthcoming) A Wave of South South Cooperation in the area of International Investment Policies (forthcoming)

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The private sector responded to the favourable investment climate by investing in services, construction and other resource based industries.

This will require the least developed countries to create an enabling environment for ICT related investment and competitive services.

Another form of investment in developing countries was through partnership with firms from developed countries to establish specialized medical services combined with tourism services.

Is the creation of a special fund and financial services for South South trade, technology and investment flows a viable option?

37. UNCTAD should provide technical assistance, particularly advisory services and training, in the following areas identification of impediments to inward investment elaboration and formulation of investment promotion strategies investor targeting establishment and development of industrial zones and sites and establishment of information systems for investment promotion.

This review found that the Office of Project Services investment in systems management, training and user support aspects lagged behind its investment in technology areas and had not been accorded a high priority.

Taxes are the key source of revenue that allows Governments to promote development and investment and to provide public services and infrastructure.

The World Investment Report 2004 analysed in detail key issues relating to national and international policies on FDI in services.

It was pointed out that least developed countries themselves needed to continue efforts towards creating a sound macroeconomic framework, including transparent and accountable governance, investment in basic social services and openness to trade and investment.

The Code devolves to local government units the responsibility for delivering basic services, including health, social welfare services, environmental protection, agricultural extension, locally funded public works, education, tourism, telecommunications services and housing, as well as investment support and promotion.

The Meeting had provided useful guidance for the work of the UNCTAD secretariat and had agreed that UNCTAD s Advisory Services on Investment and Technology could provide technical assistance in specific areas of investment promotion, as well as collaborating with UNIDO and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA).

(c) Policy reviews in the areas of investment and science, technology and innovation and of assessments of the efficiency of trade supporting services

UNCTAD began work in 2004 on a new technical assistance project to assist the Palestinian Investment Promotion Agency (PIPA) in implementing an Investment Retention Programme, aimed at providing investment support services to existing enterprises in coping with and surviving the present crisis.

Apart from earning revenue, investment services project a welcoming attitude and allow investors to operate on equal terms with domestic enterprises.

The transition process must be managed carefully to maintain a favourable investment climate and to safeguard the values of forest goods and services.

While local administrations receive a budget allocation to pay for salaries, there is usually no provision for goods and services, or investment.

At the same time, however, efficiency of trade supporting services and investment in information technologies had also been critical catalysts for growth.

It draws in part on the analysis in the World Investment Report 2004 The Shift Towards Services (WIR04).