C. Investment and capital flows

Investment and private flows

(g) Private investment flows

(e) Private investment flows

INCLUDING CAPITAL FLOWS INVESTMENT TRADE

Promoting investment and private flows

Cash flows from investing and financing activities

Trade, investment and private flows

Fostering an enabling environment for development financial flows, including capital flows investment trade

27. There are three main categories of private resource flow loans, foreign direct investment (FDI), and portfolio equity investment.

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

Financial investment flows procedures for estimating current and future investment flows likely to affect GHG emissions and removals by sinks

Industrial trade, technology and investment flows

INDUSTRIAL TRADE, TECHNOLOGY AND INVESTMENT FLOWS

Sub theme 2 Trade, investment and private flows

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.

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

The growing trend towards South South investment flows would also lead to an increase in South South investment disputes.

Private Sector in order to Encourage Foreign Investment Flows towards the

Foreign direct investment (FDI) and portfolio investments amounted to only 9.9 per cent and 2.1 per cent, respectively, of total net resource flows to the region, while FDI profit remittances slightly exceeded FDI inflows.

Foreign direct investment flows have generally been influenced by policies that do not discriminate between foreign and domestic investors.

3. Recent developments in foreign direct investment trends and policies

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

Currently, foreign direct investment has been the largest source of private flows.

Agreement on Investment and Free on Arab Movement of Arab Capital among Arab Economic

2.Given the many factors that determine the flow of FDI and the technology and skills associated with it, what is the relative importance of BITs vis à vis other determinants of investment flows?

Foreign direct investment flows can, and should, be encouraged.

Intra African investment flows are mainly from South Africa.

A bigger flow of FDI would transfer technology and organizational skills and crowd in domestic investment.

Foreign investment in the Russian Federation currently stood at 9 billion it was hoped that the inflow of foreign investment would reach from 3 to 3.5 billion during the current year.

Privatizations had been the main engine behind the FDI flows, though the dependence upon too few investing countries had not permitted proper differentiation.

There are several reasons for the new vitality of South South investment flows.

Investments and technology must be allowed to flow freely in that region.

Regional integration in ASEAN had encouraged intra ASEAN investment, which contributes to South South FDI flows.

(a) Different types of capital flows (foreign direct investment, portfolio investments, borrowing etc.) have very different degrees of beneficial effects.

Although worldwide FDI flows have expanded, including flows to developing regions, much of it is concentrated in a small number of countries.

The remainder of the balance, consisting of donor contributions, was tied up in short term investments, the majority of which were placed in an investment pool in order to increase liquidity.

B. Mobilizing international resources for development foreign direct investment and other private flows

Mobilizing international resources for development foreign direct investment and other private flows

Some countries in North Africa received together about 7 billion in portfolio investment and other forms of long term capital.

C. General Investment trends and financial flows

Request UNCTAD to present a report on the pattern of investment flows from and to the South that, inter alia, analyzing the economic and social impact of such flows on developing countries.

It was noted that bilateral investment treaties, as a rule, do not commit home countries to take concrete action to promote investment flows to developing countries.

It was noted that bilateral investment treaties, as a rule, do not commit home countries to take concrete action to promote investment flows to developing countries.

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