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Welcome to the Japan Bank for International Cooperation as a new WAIPA Member!
We are pleased to announce that the Japan Bank for International Cooperation has become a new member of WAIPA. The Association has currently 206 members coming from 151 countries.
Please see: www.waipa.org
REMINDER: 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 respond 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 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 be followed by three plenary sessions held in parallel. Each session will take the form of an interactive debate between the panelists and the audience, and will discuss “ South-South FDI : the new source of development financing”, “FDI and security issues: the new protectionism?” and “FDI and natural resources: new players on the scene”.
For registration, please contact Mrs. Isa-Beatrice Abel at the WAIPA Secretariat: Isa-Beatrice.Abel@waipa.org
We invite you as well to go regularly to: http://www.waipa.org
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