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WAIPA sincerely greets all its members and partners with happiness and success! Best wishes for 2007!
UNCTAD-WAIPA Worldwide Survey of Foreign Affiliates On 8 December 2006, all WAIPA member IPAs received an email inviting them to provide a list of 20 CEOs of the largest foreign affiliates located in their country or region.
Some of you did already responded to this request. For those who did not answer yet, please note that this information should be sent to UNCTAD before 24 January 2007 , at the latest.
The survey is conducted to gain better knowledge of global investment prospects and the perception of foreign affiliates about the local investment environments in their host economies. The findings from the survey will provide valuable information on factors that investors perceive as the most important for investments in each country and will therefore be very important for each individual member of WAIPA as well as for the Association itself.
By providing the information requested, you can ensure that your country is covered in the survey.
Please send your list of 20 CEOs to Mr. Fisher, at: justin.fisher@unctad.org
For more information, please contact Karine Campanelli at: karine.campanelli@waipa.org
Do You Want to Host a WAIPA Workshop? WAIPA is currently planning its workshop schedule for 2007. The topics of the workshops are determined through feed-back from WAIPA members. We are looking forward to receiving your proposals. Also, WAIPA members who are interested in hosting such workshops during the year 2007 are kindly requested to indicate this to the WAIPA secretariat, at the following e-mail addresses: karine.campanelli@waipa.org or isa-beatrice.abel@waipa.org
The WAIPA World Investment Conference 2007, 8-9 March 2007, Geneva, Switzerland The twelfth WAIPA World Investment Conference 2006 will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, on 8-9 March 2007, back-to-back with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues.
The theme of the conference will be: " The new sources of FDI: Emerging economies on the rise ". The official opening session will start at 10 o'clock, on the 8th of March 2007 and three plenary sessions, held in parallel during the afternoon, will take the form of interactive debates between panelists and the audience and will be moderated by a media person. Each of these sessions will discuss in depth the topics tackled in keynote addresses in the morning. A special interactive session between the audience and the consultants, entitled "Meet the consultants", will be organized. On the 9th of March, a plenary session followed by the General Assembly will close the conference. As usual, the workshops will be held in parallel on the 9th afternoon.
All members of WAIPA will receive soon the invitation letter to participate in the conference as well as the registration form. For more information and registration, please contact Mrs. Isa-Beatrice Abel at the WAIPA Secretariat: Isa-Beatrice.Abel@waipa.org
We invite you as well to go to: http://www.waipa.org
Publication
UNCTAD Investment Brief on “TOP TNCs PRESENT IN 40 HOST COUNTRIES ON AVERAGE”
The world's largest transnational corporations (TNCs) are present in 40 foreign countries on average. The geographic coverage of their developing-country counterparts is less extensive as they tend to expand mainly into neighbouring countries. New UNCTAD research shows that some locations host virtually all of the top TNCs.
The full Investment Brief is available on www.waipa.org
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