Investment Facilitation

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    UNCTAD Investment Promotion and Facilitation

     The UNCTAD programme provides advisory services and training packages for investment promotion agencies and diplomats, and organizes investment promotion and networking events.

    Source: UNCTAD

    Policymakers: Goods, Services, Access to Finance, Investment Facilitation,
     The UNCTAD programme provides advisory services and training packages for investment promotion agencies and diplomats, and organizes investment promotion and networking events.
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    Joint Initiative of Investment Facilitation for Development

    Launched by a group of WTO members, the Joint Initiative aims at developing a multilateral agreement on Investment Facilitation for Development that will improve the investment and business climate.

    Source: WTO

    Policymakers: Goods, Services, Access to Finance, Investment Facilitation,
    Launched by a group of WTO members, the Joint Initiative aims at developing a multilateral agreement on Investment Facilitation for Development that will improve the investment and business climate.
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    Investment Facilitation Toolkit for Development

    This publication combines insight and analytical expertise relevant to negotiating and implementing investment facilitation for development. It includes lessons from negotiating and implementing relevant WTO agreements, an inventory of investment facilitation measures, as well as the proceedings of some 30 stakeholder consultations conducted under the ITC-DIE project on investment facilitation for development.

    Source: ITC, 2021

    Policymakers: Goods, Services, Access to Finance, Investment Facilitation,
    This publication combines insight and analytical expertise relevant to negotiating and implementing investment facilitation for development. It includes lessons from negotiating and implementing relevant WTO agreements, an inventory of investment facilitation measures, as well as the proceedings of some 30 stakeholder consultations conducted under the ITC-DIE project on investment facilitation for development.
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    G20 Guiding Principles for Global Investment Policymaking

    These G20 Guiding Principles propose non-binding principles to provide general guidance for investment policymaking.

    Source: OECD

    Policymakers: Goods, Services, Access to Finance, Investment Facilitation,
    These G20 Guiding Principles propose non-binding principles to provide general guidance for investment policymaking.
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    Joint Statement on Investment Facilitation

    This document is a joint statement on investment facilitation for development by multiple WTO members.

    Source: WTO, 2021

    Policymakers: Goods, Access to Finance, Investment Facilitation,
    This document is a joint statement on investment facilitation for development by multiple WTO members.
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    Supporting entrepreneurship and innovation in Europe

    By developing and offering targeted financial products to intermediaries, such as banks, guarantee and leasing companies, micro-credit providers and private equity funds,  the specialist provider of risk finance benefits small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) across Europe and enhances SMEs access to finance.

    Source:  European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union

    Businesses: Goods, Services, Capacity Building, Export Potential, Investment Facilitation, Europe,
    By developing and offering targeted financial products to intermediaries, such as banks, guarantee and leasing companies, micro-credit providers and private equity funds,  the specialist provider of risk finance benefits small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) across Europe and enhances SMEs access to finance.
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    Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs

    .Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs is a cross-border exchange programme which gives new or aspiring entrepreneurs the chance to learn from experienced entrepreneurs running small businesses in other Participating Countries.

    Source:  Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs

    Businesses: Goods, Services, Capacity Building, Investment Facilitation, Europe,
    .Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs is a cross-border exchange programme which gives new or aspiring entrepreneurs the chance to learn from experienced entrepreneurs running small businesses in other Participating Countries.
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    Online Resource Centre for Asia-Pacific MSME Policy

    The Resource Centre collects knowledge about MSME policy across the Asia-Pacific region, for the information and interest of the region's policymakers.

    Source: ESCAP

    Policymakers: Goods, Access to Finance, Border Procedures & Trade Facilitation, Capacity Building, Contractual Disputes, Digital Trade & E-Commerce, Export Potential, Intellectual Property, Investment Facilitation, Logistics, Regional Trade Agreements, Regulation & Standards, Sustainability, Tariffs & Taxes, Trade Remedies, Asia & Middle East, Oceania,
    The Resource Centre collects knowledge about MSME policy across the Asia-Pacific region, for the information and interest of the region's policymakers.
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    Investment Promotion Essentials

    This document summarizes good practices that set the world’s top facilitators apart and lists investment promotion essentials.

    Source: World Bank, 2009

    Policymakers: Goods, Access to Finance, Investment Facilitation,
    This document summarizes good practices that set the world’s top facilitators apart and lists investment promotion essentials.
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    Investment facilitation: FDI-SME Linkages

    This document uses case studies from Malaysia and Singapore to explain how to create and benefit from FDI-SME linkages.

    Source: UNCTAD, 2009

    Policymakers: Goods, Access to Finance, Investment Facilitation,
    This document uses case studies from Malaysia and Singapore to explain how to create and benefit from FDI-SME linkages.
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    Services Trade – Overview

    Modes of services supply: The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) distinguishes...

    Policymakers: Investment Facilitation,
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    Investment facilitation

    The relationship between trade and investment in the global economy is rapidly evolving as a result of technological...

    Policymakers: Investment Facilitation,