The EU regional meeting will take place on 26th May 2009 at the INVEST IN SPAIN headquarters in Madrid.
The meeting's agenda, starting at 09:45:
Review of the issues dealt at the last Steering Committee meeting in Geneva, with special regard to the mofidication of WAIPA's statutes.
Ongoing initiatives regarding the improvement of the European attractiveness for FDI.
Comments on the draft document "Why Europe" prepared by Invest in Spain as a proposal.
Next steps.
The meeting will be followed by a Luncheon hosted by Mr. Javier Sanz, CEO of Invest in Spain.
WAIPA Investment Conference- Rio 2008
The annual Global Investment Conference of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) was held from 3rd to 5th December 2008 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The conference explored the impact of the financial crisis on both developed and emerging markets.
Hosted by Alessandro Teixeira, President of WAIPA and Brazil’s Trade and Investment Promotion Agency, Apex-Brasil, the important event that brought together international panels of heads of state, government officials, chief executives and distinguished academics, was the first of its kind.
The theme of the conference "Foreign Direct Investment: New Scenario and Challenges" examined the redefinition of capitalism as a consequence of current economic instability; trends in foreign direct investment, and strategies relating to the promotion and attraction of investment in times of recession. Read more in the following articles about the discussion of the challenges posed by the current economic slowdown, and the need to redesign the global financial system.
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2nd Regional Meeting of South American IPAs, Medellin, Colombia
The 2nd WAIPA Regional Meeting of South American IPAs recently took place in Medellin, Colombia, following the 1st WAIPA Regional Meeting of South America of August 28, 2008. This event was held on March 25th and 26th prior to yet another great summit the city then held: the 50th General Assembly of the Inter American Development Bank (IBD)...
WAIPA Regional Workshop for Africa on “Promoting and Retaining Investment in Times of Economic Crisis”
1-3 April 2009, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
This East African Regional Work Shop hosted by WAIPA Vice-President Mr. Emmanuel Ole-Naiko, Head of the Tanzanian Investment Center (TIC) in Dar Es Salaam exceeded the expectations of the joint-organizers, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) and the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA)...
GLOBAL FDI IN DECLINE DUE TO THE FINANCIAL CRISIS, AND A FURTHER DROP EXPECTED
The year 2008 marked the end of a growth cycle in global foreign direct investment (FDI), with worldwide flows down by more than 20 per cent. Due to the global financial crisis, the capacity of companies to invest has been weakened by reduced access to financial resources, both internally and externally, and their propensity to invest has been severely affected by collapsed growth prospects and heightened risks. Being at the epicentre of the crisis, developed countries suffered from a one-third contraction in total FDI inflows in 2008. Developing economies started to feel the impact later, but the worst is yet to come.
