Investing in development

Investment in human development

Investment and enterprise competitiveness

Investments are the tools of development.

Annex I ISSUES RELATED TO COMPETITION LAW OF PARTICULAR

Investment in developing countries

Investments and regional development strategy

Investment in developing countries

Investment, technology and enterprise development

I. Developments in international investment interaction

Table 25 History of the Investment Management Service

34. Investment, enterprise development and technology.

3. Developments in international investment interaction between investment and trade and its impact on development

3. Developments in international investment interaction between investment and trade and its impact on development.

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.

Policy issues related to investment and development Emerging FDI from developing countries (TD B COM.2 64)

DEVELOPMENTS IN INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT INTERACTION BETWEEN

Expert Meeting on Existing Agreements on Investment and their Development Dimensions

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

It was also reported that UNCTAD had carried out an assessment of the investment promotion capacity of the national investment promotion agency (Agence Nationale de Développement de l'Investissement).

Investing in Development A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals, http www.unmillenniumproject.org.

Investment promotion and development issues and questions

INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT ARRANGEMENTS

The latter have made important efforts to attract FDI as a tool for accelerating development.

Investment in and the development of science and technology are also included in the MDGs.

There is also a severe shortage of investment, both local and foreign, in many developing countries.

3 For more information see Investing in Development A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals at http unmp.forumone.com.

The impact of FDI on development

Policy Issues Related To Investment and Development

Development requires peace, as well as investments from various sources.

Meeting of Experts on Investment Promotion 15 17 September

Expert Meeting on Existing Agreements on Investment and their Development Dimensions

Expert Meeting on Investment Promotion and Development Objectives

International Investment Arrangements The Development Dimension , Fez, 19 20 June 1997.

The report calls for co financing of MDG based investment, and concludes that aid financed infrastructure development and human capital investments can make a vast difference in promoting investments, especially FDI.

17 United Nations, Financing for Development Office, Workshop on mobilizing private investment in developing countries (2004).

From low levels of outward FDI, a number of developing countries are now emerging as dynamic sources of FDI, not least in other developing countries.

Election of officers Adoption of the agenda and organization of work Policy issues related to investment and development

International assistance is a key investment in human development.

OFDI from India Trends and development

TRADE AND INVESTMENT IMPACTS ON DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Emerging FDI from developing countries

(a) Regional planning and urban development to achieve a coherent allocation of resources and investments on development

10. UNCTAD should prepare a directory of institutions and programmes of home countries that support outward investment, particularly to developing countries.

This draft report is a provisional text circulated for clearance by delegations.