Joint Social Investment

The Joint Social Investment Programme

(g) Investment mechanisms and joint ventures

The joint UNCTAD and ICC Investment Advisory Council for LDCs is another example.

They had brought with them 100 trade and investment proposals, negotiated commercial deals and identified trade prospects as well as joint venture investment projects.

The Conference had held joint meetings with the Expert Meeting on Investment Promotion and Development Objectives.

Chinese industry benefits from foreign investment in the form of joint ventures and its proximity to Japan.

An international economic conference on Tajikistan, and a joint strategy for regional development and attracting foreign investment

UNCTAD and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) launched in March 2005 a Joint African Investment Initiative to encourage greater investment by Japanese companies in Africa.

A joint IOM UNCTAD study entitled Foreign Direct Investment, Trade, Aid, and Migration was released in November 1996.

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 area of investment promotion, UNIDO and UNCTAD were the joint hosts for an international conference on privatization and investment held in Geneva in which 200 businessmen participated along with Uzbek government officials.

The joint unit in ECE was discontinued in 1994. . Created in 1975 between the then Centre for Transnational Corporations (now part of UNCTAD s Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development) and the regional commissions, these joint units support member States and subregional institutions on matters relating to foreign direct investment and enterprise development.

The Government to provide the resources for the sectoral, joint and institutional funds for boosting federal investment in experimental research and development (IDE).

Under this item, the Commission will hold a joint session with the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA), which is holding its tenth annual conference the World Investment Conference 2005 in parallel with the Commission.

Implementation of the recommendations of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the Investment Management Service of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund

Belarus was interested in joint efforts to promote investment in high technology sectors and develop innovative entrepreneurship, metrology and standardization, and environmentally clean production.

Foreign expansion of retailers has been mostly through acquisitions of domestic chains in other countries, some greenfield investment, and joint ventures with local companies.

With the support of UNDP, this new alliance can play a key role in supporting joint trade and investment arrangements agreed by developing countries.

Foreign direct investment (FDI), joint ventures and strategic alliances have begun contributing to vertical diversification through the establishment of processing plants in developing countries.

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The preference for joint ventures and greenfield investment has a great deal to do with the lack of firm specific advantages among these SMEs from Singapore.

The secretariat also concluded the joint UNCTAD CUTS DFID project on investment for development with a project briefing and a global seminar held in January 2004.

As from 1980, China has begun to take positive measures to open its medical and health market to foreign investment and allow joint ventures with foreign counterparts.

The most common investment form for SMEs is through partnership and networks with already existing local SMEs in the host country, especially in the form of joint ventures.

48. A cooperation agreement between UNCTAD and UNIDO has been formalized which calls for the launching of a joint programme designed to help African countries, particularly LDCs, improve the environment for investment flows, strengthen indigenous capacities to attract investment, and enhance trade, investment, enterprise and technological cooperation among African countries and between Africa and other regions.

With regard to modalities for technology transfer, apart from financial mechanisms which have been built into some MEAs, other modalities such as trade (e.g. in equipment) and foreign investment (both direct investment and joint ventures) can play a role in the diffusion of ESTs.

To affirm the role of Arab and regional funding institutions in funding feasibility studies on joint Arab tourism projects with a view to encouraging private sector investment in such projects

Consideration may also be given to exploiting the trade and development potential of GSTP through cooperation among developing countries in the areas of trade in services, investment and joint ventures.

Having considered the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the audit of the Investment Management Service of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund,See A 58 81.

This situation has affected various fields of joint Arab action, from children's welfare to the environment, from family programmes to programmes relating to intraregional trade and investment, and many more besides.

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At the same time, China maintains restrictions on direct investment by foreigners, limiting both the kinds of firms and the share of joint ventures that they can own. The official policy is to reduce the barriers to foreign corporate investment, especially in high tech and the service sector.

There have been a number of joint activities, such as joint missions, joint workshops, and field projects

WAIPA hoped that UNCTAD would remain its primary partner in investment and development, focusing on ongoing joint activities such as e government tools and the exchange of best practices related to IPAs.

Investment

Investment

This treaty improved the investment climate and encouraged investment.

Cannot edit investment transactions and non investment transactions together.

Ms. L. Landmesser, Senior Investment Officer, Investment Management Service

1. Takes note of the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the audit of the Investment Management Service of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund See A 58 81.

The ultimate goal of this initiative is to create the enabling policy and market environment for increased intra South trade and investment flows, especially to Africa, through joint venture arrangements and technology exchanges.

Some experts stressed the need to further explore innovative approaches to financial mechanisms, such as national environmental funds, green investment funds quoted in international stock markets, and joint ventures on sustainable development projects.

(a) What kinds of partnerships (strategic alliances, joint ventures, direct investment, mergers and acquisitions) and of activities (production, marketing) in the specific subsectors work best to promote exports and develop domestic supply capacity?

(f) A cooperation agreement was signed between UNCTAD and UNIDO in July 1996 (see Annex III), launching, inter alia, a joint programme designed to help African countries improve the environment for investment flows.