We believe that investment in human resources is an important element of aid to the continent.

34. In any complaints procedure there is an onus placed upon the complainant to provide information which gives substance to the allegations that have been made.

(c) Allowing foreign direct investment (FDI).

1.Is the list of issues typically covered in a BIT complete in the sense of covering all the most important elements in investment relations from the perspective of development?

The first step in this process requires to select the type of investment. The following steps collect more details about the investment from you.

The recent proliferation of bilateral investment treaties (BITs), double taxation treaties and various types of preferential trade agreements with investment components confirms this trend.

(3) Paragraph 3 considers the contents of initial tenders.

Investments mostly, all a little too easy to get at.

The training courses in investment promotion covered investment promotion strategies, techniques and practices at the national level, but also at the regional and subnational levels.

Licensing requirements for foreign investment have also been reduced, making investment easier for enterprises.

A part of my talk is going to be about investment opportunities that exist on this continent, to separate the rhetoric from the reality, the fact from the fiction.

Television comes quite a bit larger.

(v) The features of the tender that are to be presented at the auction

That notwithstanding, the level of foreign investment inflows had not been encouraging.

Investment rate ( GDP)

Topics such as trade capacity building, innovation, technology upgrading, investment promotion and SME development would be covered.

Encouraging and facilitating the development contributions that transnational corporations can make is an essential ingredient of the development and investment interface.

(c) To compare the information content of ERS 1 SAR data with that of other remote sensing data

Investment Performance by Account

The planned comprehensive evaluation of the change process to be undertaken in July September 1999 would include the investment appraisal element.

It should also disseminate information on country experiences related to FDI policies and the interaction between foreign and domestic investment.

Mine clearance and rehabilitation programmes

New elements of information for notification

Ratio of gross domestic investment to GDP

a) Promotion of inward foreign direct investment

Programme Component D.4 Promotion of Domestic Investment, FDI and Alliances

2.To what extent has the fact that firms from an increasing number of developing countries are becoming outward investors, and that an increasing number of developing countries conclude BITs with other developing countries, influenced the contents of BITs?

Intra South, East and Southeast Asia Almost two fifths of the FDI stock in Asia is intraregional, with Hong Kong (China), China and Singapore as leading investors in their own region (table 3).

As a result, net domestic resources available for investment, as represented by domestic savings less net transfers abroad (or gross national savings), were reduced by that much, thereby adversely affecting the level of domestic investment and increasing the gap between investment and savings.

The information was thorough and informative.

Investment promotion agencies for inward FDI and OFDI, both in developing and developed countries, could coordinate their efforts.

OFDI from Asian developing economies was contributing to growing South South FDI flows and intra regional investment.

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36. With regard to the promotion of inward FDI, countries needed to elaborate a promotion strategy targeting investors and to identify the comparative advantages they could offer the latter, as well as impediments to investment.

However, as Canada was in favour of several elements of the draft, it had voted in favour.

Moreover, there ought to be more coordination between national investment policies and IIA negotiations.

The idea that FDI will crowd in domestic investment in Africa is central to the conventional policy story.

Finally, the contents of BITs have played a role as a source of inspiration in negotiations of recent regional and multilateral agreements.

Invest, invest, invest.

2.On the basis of the elements common to all BITs (discussed in section B above), can core concepts and principles be identified regarding the present approach to FDI in these treaties?

38. The representative of the UNCTAD secretariat said that the Expert Meeting had been enriched by the participation of a large number of practitioners from investment promotion agencies, as well as company representatives who had provided their perspectives on the locational decisions of investors.

The procuring entity may, however, require that tenders include such features.

(a) Africa Major sources of inward FDI stock, as reported by investing economies

Tom doubled his investment in a year.

UNCTAD (2004b). World Investment Report 2004. Geneva.