The first principal finding is that foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in 2001 declined to $735 billion. This is less than half the 2000 figure. Behind this decline is the slowdown in the world economy and a weakening of business confidence, both of which were accentuated by the September 11 events in the United States, and both of which contributed to a sharp reduction of cross border mer…
Contents: 1. The land and the people 2. The government 3. The economy: The atoll and island economies the economy of the country 4. Fisheries 5. Agriculture 6. Education 7. Health
UNCTAD's 10th world investment report begins with an overview of the world economy, then covers: global trends, particularly the expanding international production system and the liberalization, protection, and promotion of FDI; investment inflows and outflows by region or country (European Union, Africa, US, Japan, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Central and Eastern …
Contents: 1. Historical background 2. Jerusalem under the British mandate 3. The international regime for Jerusalem under the partition resolution 4. The de facto division of Jerusalem, 1948 5. Reaffirmations of the principle of the internationalisation of Jerusalem 6. The proposals of the conciliation commission for Palestine for an international regime for Jerusalem
This book provided about Uruguay round of multilateral trade negotiations under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is the first in the long history of trade negotiations in GATT in which negotiations on agriculture have been given a central role.
This book contains: 1.. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Development 2. International Civil Aviation Organization 3. International Labour Organization 4. United Nations Industrial Development Organization 5. United execution 6. United Nations Population Fund
This Science Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP) Review, prepared at the request of the Government of Mauritania, provides an outline and assessment of the country’s current science, technology and innovation (STI) capabilities, their STI policies and the effectiveness of their national systems of innovation (NSIs) and knowledge systems in improving the productivity of enterprises and nat…
This book is a report prepared for the UNEP-UNCTAD Capacity Building Task Force on Trade, Environment and Development (CBTF). It is aimed at providing guidance to governments in developing countries what are the appropriate policies for promoting organic agriculture in their countries from the early stage of development to the more developed situation. The book draws experiences and lesson lear…
Over the last two years, the world economy has gone through a major crisis. The twenty-sixth session of UNCTAD’s Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (ISAR) provides an important opportunity for examining various issues pertaining to corporate accounting and reporting in the context of the financial crisis. The objective of this wor…
The Information Economy Report 2010: ICT, Enterprises and Poverty Alleviation is the fifth in the flagship series published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). As one of few annual reports that monitor global trends related to information and communication technologies (ICTs) from a development perspective, the Report is a valuable reference source for policymake…