4. Investment promotion

Investment promotion, foreign direct investment, transfer of technology.

Good Governance in Investment Promotion

Investment promotion The Advisory Service on Investment and Training (ASIT)

(b) Private Investment Promotion Office (OPIP)

3. Trade development and investment promotion

In terms of investment promotion strategies, investment promotion agencies (IPAs) are mainly focused on investors based in developed countries.

Service Module 2 Investment and technology promotion

2. Investment promotion and private sector development

The Investment Promotion Centre had been turned into the Kenya Investment Authority on 3 October 2005 in order to strengthen its role in investment promotion and aftercare.

Support has continued to the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA), which includes 46 investment promotion agencies from Africa as members.

The principal outputs of the investment promotion component comprise

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Examples of the latter could include provisions aimed at enterprise development, OFDI promotion programmes and outbound investment missions in conjunction with investment promotion authorities.

The UNIDO global system of World Investment Network Services (WINS) is the key institutional mechanism for investment promotion and its further expansion through additional Investment Promotion Service (IPS) offices is foreseen.

In addition, two UNIDO investment promotion initiatives were recently established with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UNIDO UK Investment Promotion Initiative IPI) and Australia (Trade and Investment Promotion Service TIPS, with offices in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney).

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.

Technical cooperation to chambers of commerce, investment and export promotion

In particular, many LDCs had recently established investment promotion agencies and were entering into bilateral, regional and interregional agreements for the protection and promotion of investment.

The Washington based Eastern Caribbean Investment Promotion Service had assisted in the visit to the Territory of an investment and trade promotion mission from North America.

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

Report of the Expert Meeting on Good Governance and Investment Promotion

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).

Other activities include the provision of technical cooperation to chambers of commerce and industry, export promotion and investment promotion.

In addition, efforts need to be directed towards entrepreneurship and investment promotion.

Mr. Yu Hua, Deputy Director General, China Investment Promotion Agency, Beijing, China

Along with these revisions have come requests for assistance in investment promotion.

Data banks based on the DIPP (Databank for Investment Promotion Programmes) software system were installed and personnel trained in investment promotion agencies in Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mozambique and Zambia.

109. The Investment Promotion Services Office in Seoul, Republic of Korea, and the UNIDO Centre for International Industrial Cooperation in Beijing, are both engaged in inward and outward investment promotion activities.

Italy had always attached great importance to UNIDO investment promotion and technology transfer.

Special training in investment promotion was given to diplomats from Nicaragua and Peru.

99. UNIDO will focus its investment promotion services primarily on medium sized investors.

Developing countries must also increase their promotion of private enterprise, investment and exports.

In Djibouti, the installation of the Investment Gateway, which is an Internet based interactive platform for investment promotion, is under way.

More emphasis should be placed on investment and technology promotion in order to attract foreign direct investment through South South cooperation.

72. In Burkina Faso, one of three active projects concentrates on a revision of the mining investment laws and investment promotion.

The basic legal structure for foreign investment in Peru is formed by the 1993 constitution, the Private Investment Growth Law, and the November 1996 Investment Promotion Law.

Acknowledging the crucial role that investment and technology promotion could play in creating a national environment conducive to attracting foreign direct investment, the Group of 77 and China welcomed the assistance extended by UNIDO for the establishment of national Investment Promotion Agencies.

(c) Assist African countries in disseminating information on investment opportunities in Africa, investment promotion programmes, and the improved investment environment resulting from the initiatives taken by African Governments

The Investment Policy Review of Benin was presented on 2 November 2004 at the Expert Meeting on Good Governance in Investment Promotion.

All investment promotion agencies in the PTA subregion were mobilized and actively participated in the preparations for the 1994 PTA investment forum.

Progress has also been recorded in the plan of action on investment promotion activities

6. Private investment, small and medium sized enterprises and promotion of the private sector

UNIDO assistance in the areas of investment promotion and rural industrialization was highly commendable.

With respect to investment promotion, foreign direct investment and transfer of technology to Africa, the international community should assist African countries to disseminate information on investment opportunities in Africa.