The silent architects of prosperity: IPAs need stronger voices and greater visibility
In the crowded marketplace of global economics, there are many entities jostling to be seen as the conduits and creators of growth and prosperity. Often overlooked and unheard in [...]
Foreign Investment: How to Make it Work for Developing Countries
Policy reforms need to address low financial returns which hamper the contribution of FDI to sustainable development. To many observers, multinational corporations seem to have considerable clout. Sophisticated global [...]
Top Five Ways Covid-19 Influences the Work of Investment Promotion Agencies
IPAs have their work cut out for them as they grapple with huge upheavals in the investment landscape. Bostjan Skalar, CEO of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies, [...]
A Focus on Foreign Investment Can Drive our Recovery from COVID-19
Investment promotion agencies (IPAs) around the world are demonstrating their criticality as we begin the recovery from COVID-19. There is still plenty of interest in FDI worldwide. By focusing [...]
State of Investment Promotion Agencies
With the growing importance of foreign direct investments (FDI) for accelerating development, to eradicate unemployment and increase exports, many governments around the world have established investment promotion agencies (IPAs) [...]
The Impact of COVID-19 on Manufacturing Investments
Advances in production technology and a trend towards shorter supply chains make a return to “business as usual” highly unlikely. The impact of the pandemic on both global trade and [...]
Ten Actions to Boost Low and Middle-Income Countries’ Productive Capacity for Medicines
Low and middle-income countries urgently need affordable personal protective equipment, diagnostics, treatments and vaccines to ward off even bigger waves of COVID-19 infection and mortality - and global production [...]
COVID-19 and the Global Contraction in FDI
The pandemic is causing massive disruptions to flows of foreign direct investments. Developing countries are likely to be hit the hardest. COVID-19 is uprooting economic globalization. With both supply and [...]
How Digital Investment Can Help the COVID-19 Recovery
Supporting digital competitiveness can help economies recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Foreign direct investment in the digital economy can especially help bring technology, know-how, jobs and growth to developing [...]
Outward FDI and Sustainable Development in Home Countries
2018 was a historically significant year for Asia and the Pacific: for the first time, it became both the largest destination for and source of foreign direct investment globally. [...]
Tracking Progress Towards the SDGs
In 2015, leaders of the world made a collosal promise to eradicate poverty, to protect the planet and to ensure peace and prosperity by 2030. This promise are the Sustainable [...]
FDI Trends: Overview of UNCTAD’s World Investment Report 2019
According to the most recent UNCTAD's World Investment Report issued in June of 2019, estimated global FDI flows were $1.3 trillion in 2018, which is 13% decline compared to [...]