International investment and enterprise development

The ICSID and its jurisprudence thus became a central part of international investment law and policy.

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Investment should be made in social sectors, with support from the international community.

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The representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) focused on the investment climate and the creation of an environment conducive to FDI.

Yet the World Bank s attitude toward the ICSID remained ambivalent.

We therefore reaffirm the need for the international community, especially donors, to provide sufficient official development assistance (ODA) and to facilitate increased foreign direct investment flows to landlocked developing countries.

International investment disputes arising from investment agreements are on the rise, at times involving tens of millions of dollars.

The reconstruction of the nation and the development of a stable and democratic society will require the assistance of the international community as a whole.

At the heart of the current system of investment protection is the World Bank, which created the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in 1966 in response to requests for arbitration by the Bank s president.

UNCTAD will also continue to work with organizations of the international business community and the international trade union movement.

The international community has a crucial complementary role to play in the transformation of South African society.

Reinforcing the ICSID is one of the biggest current challenges facing the World Bank and the international community.

Nobody will invest in an economy, a society or a State if there is no rule of law and no respect for basic human rights.

We hope that the international donor community will, as a very minimum, double the assistance it is giving today.

These changes have increased the complexity of the international investment regime, and should broaden interest in developing a more effective investment protection framework.

This began to change with the rapid proliferation of bilateral investment treaties (BITs), which typically granted private investors standing before the ICSID.

We have been sincerely trying, as partners with the international community, to contribute to the establishment of a multi ethnic society and to confidence building.

218. As each society considers its development choices, the international community must act wisely.

This provides a new rationale for strengthening the international framework to protect foreign investment.

Agreements had been reached with a number of countries to avoid double taxing, and Paraguay had helped to found the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency of the World Bank Group.

The new environment calls on the community of nations to coexist in peace with mutual respect and full observance of international law.

Private infrastructure developers and long term investors essentially withdrew as Governments were unable to put in place sustainable policies that assured adequate and predictable returns, particularly in the politically contentious power and water sectors (World Bank, ibid.).

Mr. Moon Yearn Hwang, Director, International Investment and Regional Cooperation Division, Ministry of Finance and Economy, Republic of Korea

It was important to strengthen alternative development programmes through national investment and international cooperation.

This could be achieved through UNCTAD's existing intergovernmental forum and by preparing short investment policy briefs aimed at policy makers and investment promotion agencies.

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Investment

60. Work in the implementation of the strategies is not proceeding further, owing to lack of funds from the international donor community.

22. These fundamental rules are now part of customary international law, which is binding on the whole community of nations.

International cooperation for development must include partnerships with the business community, national and international.

But in a community of nations, the international community, too, must share in the responsibility of ensuring the development of all its components.

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Sources World Bank, World Bank Development Indicators 2005 (GDP per capita) and UNCTAD, UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics, 2004 (inward FDI).

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Creating a Learning Society

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This is a world wide community.

Trust based society appears.

A community

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