UNCTAD stresses importance of policies in attracting FDI in ...
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Caution is necessary when attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) in services and it&#39;s important to have the right mix of policies, the United Nations Conference on Trade
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The World Bank, aligned with other global financial institutions dominated by rich nations that promote free trade, is advising poor nations that have already signed agreements to open up for more trade on &quot;all fronts.
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New Delhi: The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government on Wednesday hiked foreign direct investment (FDI) limit in the civil aviation sector from 40 to 49 per cent but barred foreign airlines from holding stakes.
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A key World Bank committee appealed to all countries, developed and developping, to take an active role in WTO multilateral trade liberalization talks scheduled to wrap by the end of the year.
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Ministers from G20 developing countries said Saturday they had held positive talks in preparation for a fight with richer countries over changing trade rules in favor of the poor.
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HUNGARY is fast becoming a target for foreign investors looking for the value added touch of sophisticated and highly trained, multilingual senior and middle management personnel, but not disregarding the fact ...
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Financial Times, 29 September 2004 - Developing countries must take action to reduce corruption and cronyism in order to improve investment climates and promote growth and poverty reduction, the World Bank said yesterday.
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ISLAMABAD: Waseem Haqqie, chairman Board of Investment (BoI) said Wednesday that the government aims to enhance the ratio of foreign direct investment (FDI) to GDP from 18 percent to 22 percent in the next three years.
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows decreased by 18 percent in 2003 to USD560 billion, compared to a 17 percent decrease in 2002 according to the latest report from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
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Spanish business sectors investing in Venezuela have called on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias to ensure legal and political security for foreign investors.
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The new head of the International Monetary Fund on Monday signaled the lender would take a larger role in speaking out about policies in the world&#39;s richest nations if they pose global economic risks.
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Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian said he  will make an important policy statement on relations with  arch-foe China in his National Day address on Oct. 10.
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International operations have to be high on the company's list as it seeks to improve its performance.
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The presidents of Brazil and France have called for new efforts to fight poverty and hunger in the developing world, including the controversial creation of an international tax, to combat the negative effects ...
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The presidents of Brazil and France called Monday for new efforts to fight poverty in the developing world, including the creation of a controversial international tax, to combat the negative effects of ...
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BRUSSELS, Sep 22 (IPS) - EU development commissioner designate Louis Michel  has promised to make the MDGs "central to all of the European  Commission's policies."
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(InfoWorld) - U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said the U.S. is not just a market for foreign companies to sell into but to invest in as well. In a satellite TV address to a conference of Indian business leaders gathered in Santa Clara, California, Clinton said Friday that many global businesses are eager to sell to American consumers, while at the same time American jobs are being exported to lower wage countries. Offshoring eliminates good-paying jobs in the U.S. and threatens the middle class, she said. While the U.S. accounts for only 5 percent of the world's population, it accounts for about 20 percent of the world's gross domestic product, a measure of economic activity. "Countries around the world rely on our marketplace and Americans are literally fueling economic growth throughout the world," Clinton said. "We can promote shared prosperity and a race to the top, not to the bottom." Rather than just sell to Americans, foreign companies should establish business operations in the U.S., which has a highly educated and highly productive workforce and efficient capital markets, Clinton said. "I have serious concerns about creating good jobs right here in the United States." The Democratic candidate's audience was an estimated 4,000 attendees at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) 2007 Global Conference, which concluded a three-day run Sunday. IIT, an engineering and science school founded in 1950, operates seven campuses throughout India. The alumni association, PAN IIT, hosted the conference. Of 100,000 IIT alumni, 25 percent of them live and work in the U.S. Clinton was the only one of the 2008 U.S. presidential candidates to accept an invitation to speak at the conference, organizers said. The group is trying to take a more proactive role in public policy issues. "I think our political involvement has lagged behind our overall presence and economic involvement in the country. I'm glad our political activity is catching up to what it should be," said Rajat Gupta, former managing director of the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. and a conference organizer. The Indian business group won Clinton's support for increasing the number of H1-B visas granted annually in the U.S. to 115,000 from 65,000 now. Some U.S. companies say they need to hire highly skilled engineers from India and other countries because of a shortage of them in the U.S. Unfortunately, that increase was one of many provisions in the immigration reform bill that died in the U.S. Congress June 28. PAN IIT hopes the H1-B increase can be brought back as a separate piece of legislation. Clinton also called for encouraging American students to study math, engineering and science to prepare them for more tech industry jobs in the future. She also called for specific outreach to female and minority students kept under a glass ceiling preventing them from advancing to good paying tech jobs. "I think that's important. In fact, I'm trying to break a very high and very hard ceiling myself," she said.