Trade, however, is not the only immediate concern.

The theme of peacebuilding brings together many subjects of direct interest to the United Nations.

UNHCR would also continue to be attentive to situations of direct or indirect refoulement governed by bilateral agreements which disregarded international law or by the treatment of bona fide asylum seekers as illegal migrants.

The increase of FDI from some developing countries may motivate more attention to the South as a source of investment.

In a sense, India s democracy sometimes hinders immediate growth.

Similarly, European countries account for 75 of direct investment in Russia.

And, increasingly, individuals go online to get attention, not to give it.

The plan was to boost public interest in the upcoming TV series while it was still under production.

National policy making is increasingly taking place within the framework of international agreements for services FDI.

With regard to foreign direct investment, there was a concern that only 3 per cent of such flows are going to Africa.

The Government was also asked to clarify whether the relevant national legislation is intended to cover both direct and indirect discrimination as required by the Convention.

Currently, the US receives only about 2 3 of FDI flows from China.

Meanwhile, political trials in Egypt are attracting international attention and deterring foreign investment.

For this reason, FDI has to be promoted separately from domestic investment and exports.

A wide range of different trends, motivations, drivers, competitiveness gains and policies for OFDI were identified, all of which deserve further attention and in depth analysis.

In 2002, services accounted for about 55 per cent of the total stock of inward FDI in developing countries and some 85 per cent of outward FDI stock for developing countries.

According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), liberalization of foreign direct investment regimes may have been a factor that helped to reverse the downward trend in new foreign direct investment inflows to developing countries.

the commitments undertaken in the field of the human dimension of the OSCE are matters of direct and legitimate concern to all participating States and do not belong exclusively to the internal affairs of the State concerned .

Uribe has also proven to be a strong economic administrator, attracting increasing flows of foreign direct investment to Colombia.

The share of profits earned by government from FDI operations was insignificant, the result of a race to the bottom .

In 2003, the region hosted some 28 per cent of OFDI from Singapore.

To be sure, the US remains the world s leading destination for FDI, accounting for 15 of global flows.

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IPAs in developing countries could take advantage of this potential by tailoring promotion and targeting strategies to encourage FDI.

Most Chinese OFDI is directed towards other developing countries, not only in Asia but also in Africa and Latin America (UNCTAD 2003).

Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz, all owned by Cendant Corp., comprise about 77 per cent of the online market in the United States.

Some 47 per cent of OFDI in 1990 came from this sector.

Having gained time, EU governments, the European Commission, and the European Central Bank have now turned their attention to improving future governance.

As a result, the emphasis has shifted from preventing discrimination in legislation to considering differences in policy effects.

Aggressive expansion of proven low cost, high impact micro irrigation techniques would do more to help small scale farmers.

Similarly, the surge in China s outward FDI is good for China and for host countries.

Significant progress has been made toward fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals, which are essential to ensuring global peace and stability due to the direct link between poverty, lack of development, and security.

This emphasis on results has underlined the importance of direct and regular contact with users of public information products, to align the work of the Department more closely with the needs of its target audiences.

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Direct and indirect discrimination based on gender is also prohibited by the Employment Contracts Act.

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In its direct request of 2002, the Committee noted with interest the study conducted by the Office with the support of the national authorities on the Gender Dimension of Skills Development in Vocational Training in Thailand that reviewed skills development programmes provided in seven provinces.

The benefits of FDI had not been forthcoming, partly owing to its capital intensive nature, and only a very small portion of exports related to FDI accrued to the host countries as a result of the race to the bottom incentives.

The Committee encourages the State party to incorporate fully the definition of discrimination, encompassing both direct and indirect discrimination, in line with article 1 of the Convention, in its Constitution or other appropriate national legislation.

Although a marked liberalization, and deregulation and privatization policies, had been implemented, FDI inflows to Africa as a proportion of total developing country inflows had declined.

To properly address this issue would not only require appropriate measures to promote FDI but also be a question of corporate responsibility.

This is especially interesting since it fundamentally rejects one of the most harrowing scenes from Al Gore s movie An Inconvenient Truth .

But we could have gone a step further and paid closer attention to the areas where we could achieve the most good.

But little attention is given to the high cost of telecommunications, unreliable electrical power systems, and the poor transport infrastructure.