World Investment Report 2004 The Shift towards Services.

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.

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

Miscellaneous income normally includes bank and investment interest and income from publications and services.

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

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

The liberalization of trade, prices and services had transformed the market and promoted production and investment.

Legal and investment promotion services were requested and were instrumental in the drafting of new legislation.

Through the corporative , it provided marketing services as well as investment and working capital finance.

(e) To promote policy coordination in the fields of technology, finance, investment, services and trade.

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.

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.

For example, industrial design, marketing, and legal services could facilitate investment and development of new manufactured products.

Kenya is a prime investment destination in East Africa, a manufacturing and services hub, and a source for investment in the sub region and the enlarged COMESA market.

But some vulnerable countries are still struggling to finance countercyclical investment and expanded social protection services.

Other issues suggested for further study included the links between foreign direct investment and trade in services in general and the link between the liberalization of foreign direct investment in developing countries and their position in trade in services in particular.

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

That might be especially the case with financial services in developing countries foreign direct investment in those services was relatively small, and growing slowly.

The 1990s certainly witnessed a significant increase in the global integration of goods, services and investment flows.

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

Transnational corporations are therefore at the centre of the interplay between investment, technology, services, trade and finance.

The reductions largely reflect a return on investment in the automation of work processes, particularly in the areas of conference services and other support services.

The goal should be to foster private sector investment to provide efficient logistics services.

The Agency's services to the refugees constitute an essential investment in their human resources.

The remainder covers the cost of the provision of audit, payroll, investment, and treasury and accounting services by UNOG.

(f) Improving social returns by directing spending priorities towards investment that has social multiplier effects for example, investment in basic education, primary health care and general social services

The key to reducing poverty was sustainable development strategies that included investment in rural areas and social services.

They emphasized the need to continue the policy oriented studies on the effects positive or negative of the liberalization of foreign direct investment in services and to expand technical cooperation programmes on how to encourage foreign direct investment in services.

A more broad based rural development required increased investment in rural roads and the development of research and extension services.

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.

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

This will require the least developed countries to create an enabling environment for ICT related investment and competitive services.

First, constraints to the free flow of goods, services and investment in the region must be removed or eased.

In addition it also provides substantive services to the Ad Hoc Working Group on Investment and Financial Flows Non debt creating Finance for Development New Mechanisms for Increasing Investment and Financial Flows.

Is the creation of a special fund and financial services for South South trade, technology and investment flows a viable option?

But Chinese officials worry that the shift from investment to consumption, and from manufacturing to services, will mean slower growth.

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

As described below, the level of costs for contractual services depends mainly on the market value of the Fund and the fee structures of the investment firms used for particular investment expertise.

In most European countries, action to spur private investment in local services and transport both large sectors should also be considered.

In fact, over the next decade, as China attempts to move up the value chain into services and adjusts to a shrinking workforce, its investment requirements will shrink and its investment rate will fall sharply.

The transition process must be managed carefully to maintain a favourable investment climate and to safeguard the values of forest goods and services.

It draws in part on the analysis in the World Investment Report 2004 The Shift Towards Services (WIR04).

Distribution services are driven by innovation, with such segments as retailing becoming the most attractive destinations for investment.

However, tough global competition will impose significant requirements for qualitative improvement on the industrial sector, which in turn will necessitate strengthening support institutions and developing consultancy services, particularly knowledge intensive services in such areas as investment, management, maintenance and post production services.

While local administrations receive a budget allocation to pay for salaries, there is usually no provision for goods and services, or investment.