| UNCTAD's
Advisory Services on Investment and Training (ASIT)
is a web portal designed to help developing countries and
economies in transition attract and benefit from FDI.
UNCTAD's Development Gateway Programme helps users to access information,
publications, resources and training on sustainable development,
as well as funding for innovative FDI projects and programmes.
The UNCTAD's
Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise DevelopmenT
(DITE) is the focal point within the United Nations
Secretariat for all matters related to FDI. The site offers
links to publications such as the Investment Policy Reviews
(IPRs), the World Investment Report (WIR) and the International
Investment Agreements (IIAs).
Foreign
Investment Advisory Service (FIAS) helps developing
and transition country governments design initiatives
to attract FDI, advising on laws, policies, incentives,
institutions, and strategies. The website offers the latest
research papers in FDI.
International
Finance Corporation (IFC) offers a wide variety of financial
products to private sector investment projects in developing
countries.
The International
Chamber of Commerce (ICC) offers
business news as well as an archive of legal and economic
publications.
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) a member of the
World Bank Group, is a multilateral risk mitigator promoting foreign direct
investment into developing countries by insuring investors against political or
noncommercial risk. MIGA also provides timely and essential information to
investors and investment intermediaries through FDI.net
and PRI-Cente.
The Organisation
for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) website
offers good sources for finance news and investment publications.
The World Bank's Rapid
Response Unit provides a sampling of current learning
opportunities on investment climate and corporate governance
policy, private participation in infrastructure, and privatization
transactions and policy. This is a website designed for
developing country officials and practitioners.
The World
Economic Forum (WEF) offers on its site the latest Competitiveness
Reports and several discussion fora. The Word
Trade Organization (WTO) web makes available trade and
investment-related legal documents and links to the
WTO Guide “Trading into the Future” as well as to the investment
section of the WTO training package. |