The new phase of globalization brings more opportunities for investment promotion agencies
Is globalization broken? This is the loaded question posed in a substantive piece of research from global banking institution [...]
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08, 2024
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06, 2024
The critical need for governments to present bankable projects to investors
Governments worldwide are vying to attract private sector capital to drive growth, infrastructure development and innovation. Amidst this competitive [...]
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04, 2024
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 [...]
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06, 2021
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 [...]
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02, 2021
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 [...]
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12, 2020
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 [...]
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11, 2020
State of Investment Promotion Agencies
With the growing importance of foreign direct investments (FDI) for accelerating development, to eradicate unemployment and increase exports, many [...]
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09, 2020
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. [...]
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06, 2020
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 [...]
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06, 2020
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 [...]
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05, 2020
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 [...]
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04, 2020
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 [...]
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03, 2020
Tracking Progress Towards the SDGs
In 2015, leaders of the world made a collosal promise to eradicate poverty, to protect the planet and to [...]
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08, 2019
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 [...]