UNCTAD, World Investment Report 2004.

Source UNCTAD 2005b, World Investment Report, 2005.

World Investment Report 2004 The Shift towards Services.

The Government would be following up on the implementation of the recommendations of the IPR, which related to modernizing the FDI entry regime, strengthening Board of Investment (BOI) core functions and reforming the tax regime on investment.

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

See the World Investment Report 2004 for details on the latest trends in foreign direct investment and BPO.

report of the expert meeting on the impact of fdi on development

World Investment Report 2005 Transnational Corporations and the Internationalization of R D.

REPORT OF THE COMMISSION ON INVESTMENT, TECHNOLOGY AND RELATED FINANCIAL ISSUES ON ITS NINTH SESSION

World Investment Report 2000 Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions and Development.

43 World Economic Forum, Partnering for Success Business Perspectives on Multistakeholder Partnerships (Geneva, 2005).

Under investment cost, the Secretary Chief Executive Officer explained that the additional resources requested were directly linked to the recommendations made in the report of Deloitte and Touche on the investment process, operations and organization of the Investment Management Service.

_______________ (2004b). World Development Report 2005 A Better Investment Climate for Everyone.

As stressed by UNCTAD in various issues of the World Investment Report, policies matter not only for attracting FDI but also for benefiting from it.

UNCTAD briefing on the World Investment Report 2005

1 United Nations Millennium Project report, Investing in Development A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals (New York, 2005).

Report of the Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues on its ninth session (7 11 March 2005)

Report of the Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues, ninth session (7 11 March 2005)

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

The report of the Expert Meeting will be submitted to the Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues at its tenth session.

(b) Report of the Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues, ninth session (7 11 March 2005)

Report of the Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities, ninth session (14 18 March 2005) Report of the Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues, ninth session (7 11 March 2005) Report of the Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development, ninth session (22 25 February 2005)

Report of the Expert Meeting on Good Governance in Investment Promotion (TD B COM.2 EM.15 3)

Report of the Expert Meeting on the Impact of FDI on Development (TD B COM.2 EM.16 3)

The Commission took note of the report of the Expert Meeting on Good Governance in Investment Promotion and the suggestions contained therein.

The Group is aware of the publication of another report that will complement the work of the High level Panel and bring new ideas to the discussions, namely, the Sachs report (Investing in Development A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals).

UNICEF has joined with the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to prepare a report on Investing in the Children of the Islamic World.

Seven of the top 50 TNCs from the South are South African (WIR04). Information on the sectoral composition of outward FDI from developing countries is limited.

The report of the Expert Meeting will be submitted to the Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues at its next session (Geneva, March 2006).

The Commission welcomes the information provided in the DITE Activities Report 2004 and would like to see it continued as a regular feature.

The secretariat should also follow up on the work undertaken on FDI in services (e.g. by looking at the tourism industry, which is of special interest to developing countries), as most recently presented in the World Investment Report 2004.

In this context welcomed the lively debate stimulated by the report of the UNCTAD secretariat entitled Economic Development in Africa Rethinking the Role of Foreign Direct Investment, with a view to reconsidering what might be needed to make FDI in Africa more effective, productive and beneficial

Many speakers underlined that it was important to implement the follow up recommendations of the IPR, and the Sri Lankan Government's commitments to do so was appreciated.

In a video link with New York, the author of the report of the United Nations Millennium Project Task Force, entitled Investing in Development, presented a summary of its main findings and recommendations.

Every country should compare the conditions of its young people with those reported by UNICEF, and use the results to help guide expanded investment in their children s well being.

The representative of Zambia, speaking in his capacity as President of the Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues at its ninth session, introduced the Commission's report (TD B COM.2 66).

The representative of Zambia, speaking in his capacity as President of the Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues at its ninth session, introduced the Commission's report (TD B COM.2 66).

In addition, a report by The Economist titled A new fund attests to the country s allure and to the value of connections shows that Ethiopia s door for investment is opened preferentially based on connections.

The Board also established Sessional Committee II, to consider and report on agenda item 5 (Economic development in Africa The role of foreign direct investment in growth and development).

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Front loaded public investment could be funded through an enhanced European Investment Bank.

Second, investment in real estate development accounts for nearly one quarter of the total.

This agency acts as a one stop shop and as the focal point for investment promotion activities.

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).