Useful resources and publications, such as the Trade and Development Report and the World Investment Report, provided in depth assessments of global trade and investment patterns.

The global FDI environment

Currently, the investment section has six investment officers who cover global equity markets and fixed income investments.

Trade among GSTP members is already close to 2 trillion, or about 55 per cent of the international trade of all developing countries.12 The UNCTAD annual World Investment Report tracks global investment flows, including those to, from and among developing countries.

At the same time, the Global Compact and UNEP launched the Principles for Responsible Investment initiative, which is currently mobilizing the chief executive officers of the world's largest pension funds to advance responsible investment globally.

The low costs of finance facilitated global investment, thereby contributing to the acceleration of global growth in 2004.

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Latin America's investment in this sector totals 1.6 per cent of world investment.

With green technology and with investments to alleviate poverty, and global governance, the world can become like this.

OFDI is not about hollowing out or capital flight, but is a process of engaging with globalization and the global economy.

Flows to developing countries appear to lead the recovery in global FDI.

The backbone of making investment decisions for global holders of capital.

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The Fund invests globally and has liabilities in a number of currencies.

(AfDB, GEF and World Bank)

The GRID Meta Database Management System will be implemented in 1996 and will provide a catalog (electronic and hard copy) of worldwide GRID data resources.

So defense investment is also investment in security and stability, in diplomacy and cooperation, and in technology and innovation. It is an investment in a safer and more prosperous future for our own countries and for the rest of the world.

In fact, according to International Monetary Fund data, the current overall global investment rate, at 24.5 of world GDP, is near the top of its long term range. The issue is not a lack of overall investment, but the fact that a disproportionate share of it comes from China.

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The increasing incidence of cross border insolvencies reflects the continuing global expansion of trade and investment.

It should, for example, continue its work on global policy analysis, especially through its work on the World Investment Report.

It was noted that improving the ratings of debt issuance to investment grade by securitization and other mechanisms could lead to opening the door to large global pools of institutional investment.

Although such investment has recently increased, returning to 2001 levels, it represents only 3 per cent of global foreign investment flows.

Regional and global players What drives companies to invest abroad?

Source World Bank, Global Development Finance 2005, online database.

The World Investment Report 2004, in its analysis of investment trends in Africa, reported that Africa's outlook for FDI is promising, given the region's natural resource potential, buoyant global commodity markets, improving investor perception of the region and continuing improvements in regulatory framework.

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Despite increases in FDI globally from 15 billion in 2003 to 20 billion in 2004, Africa's share in global foreign direct investment flows remains only 3 per cent.

Competition issues related to FDI deserve increased focus in a world in which FDI has become a key element of the globalization process, constituting a critical core of production activities.

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2. Segment for high level participation substantive policy item foreign direct investment and development in a globalizing world economy.

11.15 a.m. Embargoed briefing on the World Investment Report 2005 by Mr. Georg Kell, Executive Head of the Global Compact and Mr. Kai Hammerich, Director General of Invest in Sweden and President of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies Please note that the press conference is embargoed until 1 p.m., Thursday, 29 September 2005.

In partnership with the Global Environment Facility, it would implement a large scale programme of renewable energy investment in an effort to deal with global warming.

In a globalized world, partnerships were clearly crucial, and additional resources had to be secured through external debt relief, an improved global trading system, increased ODA and both foreign direct investment and mobilization of domestic resources.

A World of Underinvestment

In a globalizing world, competition for foreign direct investment focuses on the establishment of a good business environment and investment incentives, consistent with national development objectives.

The substantive policy item on foreign direct investment and development in a globalizing world economy was therefore of great interest to Africa.

The third, and perhaps most important, factor underpinning recent changes in corporate governance has been the sharp rise in cross border investing. Sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, global investment banks, and hedge funds do not invest only in their own backyard.

UNEP, through its network of GRID centres, developed the GRID Meta data directory tool to provide both an electronic and hard copy catalogue of worldwide GRID data sources.

8. The liberalization of cross border flows had led to the internationalization of investments by institutional funds.

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Report on world investments 2004.

He drew attention to the fact that according to a new exercise undertaken in the World Investment Report 1997 to estimate the actual value of total investment in international production by foreign affiliates of TNCs, that value was 1.4 trillion, or four times greater than global FDI.

In 2015, Brazil's participation in global direct investment was 3.7 , down from 5.7 in 2014.