This year's World
Investment Report focuses on the FDI downturn,
its reasons and the role of national policies and international
investment agreements (IIAs) to attract FDI and benefit from
it. The report includes a statistical annex of 122 pages.
more |
|
The Investment Gateway
is an online information system designed as a catalyst for
sector-specific interaction, fostering strategic alliances
and investment. It provides market regulators with a mechanism
for implementing e-administration techniques and simplifying
the domestic legal framework dealing with investment.
more |
|
The Investor Targeting Toolkit
is based on UNCTAD's own research and capacity building programme
in investment promotion. The toolkit is the reference manual
for participants of the WAIPA workshops for managers and practitioners
from IPAs and diplomats supporting the IPA overseas strategy.
The tollkit features: fostering the understanding of FDI concepts
and trends and targeting tools.
more |
|
Specially designed for developing
countries, the Investment Compass is an interactive
tool that analyzes the main economic and policy determinants
that affect each country's investment environment. This tool
allows countries to determine benchmark themselves and find
their comparative advantage over 60 different indicators.
more |
|
The FDI Promotion Center
is a free knowledge-sharing and learning resource for investment
promotion practitioners - bringing together tools, reference
guides and other best practice resources. It accommodates
all levels of practitioners and covers a broad range of topics
related to investment promotion, offering online access a
growing collection of resources and tools that support IPAs
seeking to attract and retain FDI.
more |
 |
Investment Map assists investment promotion
agencies in defining
priority sectors for investment promotion, identifying potential
investors in a given sector and identifying competitor countries for
inward investment. Its main strength lies in the combination of data on
international trade, foreign direct investment, tariff and foreign
affiliated companies into an easy-to-use, interactive Internet tool that
allows analysis by sector, home and host country. It is produced by the
International Trade Centre and UNCTAD in partnership with WAIPA and
MIGA.
more |
|
The Investment Promotion
Toolkit is a compilation of international best practices
and aims to assist IPAs to attract and retain FDI. It consists
of nine modules featuring: understanding FDI, developing an
IPA, creating an investment promotion strategy, building effective
partnerships, strengthening the location's image, targeting
and generating FDI opportunities, servicing investors, monitoring
and evaluating activities and results and utilizing IT.
more |
|
| E-xchange ia an
investment marketplace and discussion forum. The network supports,
promotes and strengthen investment activities by providing
a match-making showcase for investment projects and cooperation
requests. Once registered, each member is free to post offers
and requests. |
|
"FDI Xchange is a free customized e-mail investment alert service from MIGA's
FDI.net providing investment promotion intermediaries a low-cost means to
communicate directly with prospective foreign investors who have registered
their country, sectoral and topical interests. To find out more about how to
utilize this service, send us an email or visit FDI.net and register to receive FDI Xchange.
more
|
|
FDI.net is a unique web portal that offers free,
on-demand country analysis and information on all things related to foreign
direct investment in 175 countries. The site combines business and public
resources with World Bank Group analysis to provide users with a single entry
point for the full-spectrum of information needed to make a decision about
investing in a foreign country.
more |
|
The work programme on international
investment agreements (IIAs) seeks to help developing
countries to participate as effectively as possible in international
discussions or negotiations on investment (at the bilateral,
regional, plurilateral and multilateral levels).
more |
|
