The Government is also moving to implement the European Union s Capital Adequacy Directive (93 6 EC) and the Investment Services Directive (93 33 EC).

The shift of FDI to services

Service Module 2 Investment and technology promotion

OFDI was largely led by the manufacturing sector.

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

(b) How can home country programmes for disseminating information and support services to their investors be improved?

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

The Plan also includes additional investments for community based services to address violence against women, including 3.5 million annually for housing support services and 3 million annually as an operating increase for shelters and counselling services.

This pattern, however, does not apply to most services investments.

At present, the Ministry of Planning and Investment is providing guidelines for the implementation of this strategic Direction.

The Brazilian Government has invested in increasing the number of reference services.

FDI in services has expanded, with the world's inward stock of FDI in services quadrupling (1990 to 2002) and the share of services in the world's FDI stock rising from one quarter in the 1970s to about 60 per cent in 2002.

In Mongolia, FIAS is implementing a UNDP funded project, consisting of three components an investment promotion skills training programme, the development of an investor servicing strategy and the development of a comprehensive investment promotion strategy.

During the period covered by this report, the government invested heavily in childcare.

Investment guides

Countries that received net financial transfers were able to import more goods and services than they exported to the rest of the world and expand their investment beyond what domestic saving would otherwise have financed.

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

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

Joint high level session with WAIPA Attracting FDI in service clusters

Investing in the capacity of local government to provide universal basic services is investing in healthier women and families.

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.

Taming Speculative Capitalism

Another view held that paragraph (3) seemed unconvincing for, if it was common knowledge that the local courts were notoriously lacking in independence , the question arose why an investor would risk investing in the country concerned.

First, trading services and finance represented the greatest proportion of investments and were complementary to export activities.

Specifically, it examined the determinants of FDI in the services sector and why some locations had succeeded in attracting FDI to service clusters while others had not.

Major investments were made in the area of primary health care, prevention, as well as services for the elderly.

OFDI also leads to better product service quality and greater technological edge.

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

(c) Poverty alleviation by, inter alia, increasing investments on infrastructure and basic services

Getting the Token from the server

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.

(c) Enhancement of the Investment Management Service through the addition of five new posts, indexed management costs, including the costs of transition management services, and consultant costs

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.

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

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

(b) Financial incentives provide finance for new investment or to defray capital or operation costs.

Although all insured persons are entitled to health care under the social security system, the health care system is in a deplorable state.

More must also be invested in the provision of basic services in the affected areas.

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

The joint high level session of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) with UNCTAD's Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues focused on attracting FDI in service clusters.

In the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, UNIDO supported activities to attract FDI include the establishment of an investment promotion unit at the Ministry of Development, to be linked with the UNIDO World Investment Network Service staff training and dissemination of the UNIDO Investor s Guide.

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

Capital services

Why have demands by the EU s new member states for freer access to Western Europe s labor and services markets, and for the right to compete with old Europe for investment, been stigmatized as social dumping? Why are policies that would do the most to reduce inequality in Europe being presented as anti social?