B. Pre investment follow up activities

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UNIFEM investment in these activities amounted to 100,000 for 2004.

Table 6. Investment as at 31 December 1992 supplementary activities

LDCs continue to receive priority in investment related and emergency assistance activities.

Investment follow up activities will ensure continued replenishment payments to the Fund.

(c) The day to day monitoring of investment and operational activities is critical

Regarding investment and technology promotion, the Group recognized the vast potential of such activities for enhancing technical cooperation activities aimed at strengthening national capacities for attracting foreign direct investment through South South cooperation.

The office coordinates all investment activities and decisions, the implementation of control procedures, investment committee functions and the financial statements of the Service.

Investment and technology promotion activities should be monitored with a view to quantifying their effects in terms of channelling and sustaining foreign investment.

Progress has also been recorded in the plan of action on investment promotion activities

63. Investment promotion activities within the framework of the Decade included the Investment Forum for Central African States held at Yaoundé, Cameroon, in November.

(c) Mobilization of domestic and foreign direct investment in Africa through investment and technology promotion activities and cooperation with other United Nations agencies and financial institutions

When developing nations are forced into overvalued currencies, entrepreneurship and investment in those activities are depressed.

These activities would include capacity building national studies, strategies, and inventories innovative projects and investment projects.

Additional resources will make possible expansion of research and development and pre investment activities in Africa.

Such integration will also enhance trade and investment activities between developing countries and economies in transition.

This agency acts as a one stop shop and as the focal point for investment promotion activities.

Uncertainty about rules and weak law enforcement undermine investment activities and, thus, the growth of employment opportunities.

Examples of these activities are the social investment funds established in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.

23.5 The world wide distribution of foreign direct investment and the activities of transnational corporations are uneven.

Since these activities are most often carried out through foreign investment, the country also benefits from technology transfers.

In contrast to lending activities, banks commitment to foreign markets has remained virtually unaffected with respect to purely intermediary activities such as investment banking and asset management.

109. The Investment Promotion Services Office in Seoul, Republic of Korea, and the UNIDO Centre for International Industrial Cooperation in Beijing, are both engaged in inward and outward investment promotion activities.

Such changes put pressure on universal banks to abandon riskier investment bank activities in order to operate more freely.

Considerable investment has been made both by Parties and by the secretariat in the development of mandated implementation activities.

Other activities include the provision of technical cooperation to chambers of commerce and industry, export promotion and investment promotion.

Paraguay offers a variety of tax incentives to both its own and outside investors for investment in production activities.

The third area of activities was resource mobilization for poverty oriented activities, in other words, real investment in those assets the poor would exploit for their own advancement.

Regarding UNCTAD's investment related activities, the speaker suggested that the secretariat further expand the discussion on investment agreements in the light of the increasing importance of such agreements, and explore possibilities of establishing a mechanism to assist developing countries in resolving investment disputes.

The Fund apos s activities therefore provide necessary pre investment operations which can serve as a basis for project investment by international and regional financing institutions as well as the private sector.

For example, the United Kingdom s Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) has proposed ring fencing retail activities from investment banking activities in separately capitalized divisions of a bank holding company.

93. The dispersion of different aspects of United Nations activities in the closely interrelated areas of trade, finance, investment, technology and services inevitably diluted the impact of these activities.

(b) Implementation of resolution II governing preparatory investment in pioneer activities relating to polymetallic nodules (resolution I, para. 5 (h))

When fully functional, the Slum Upgrading Facility will provide follow up assistance to ongoing pre investment activities carried out under the Programme's technical cooperation activities (see paras. 17 22, below).

There had been no serious managerial breach in the area of investment policy at the United Nations Office at Geneva, since all investment activities were conducted in accordance with the relevant official policy guidelines.

67. The technical cooperation activities of UNCHS also continued to be very effectively leveraged within the framework of national investment programming.

(k) The impact of foreign direct investment and transnational corporation activities on the global economy and linkages with other macroeconomic factors.

46. Activities of investment, banking and financial institutions in Gibraltar are regulated in accordance with the Companies (Taxation and Concession) Ordinance.

Investment

Investment promotion, foreign direct investment, transfer of technology.

Furthermore, the definition of the boundary between retail and investment banking activities will leave an important grey area and generate perverse incentives.

Specific technical assistance activities designed to assist Governments in implementing the recommendations contained in Investment Policy Reviews were carried out during 2004.

E C.10 1993 10 7 Experience gained in technical cooperation activities involving privatization and foreign investment report of the Secretary General

In order to integrate further the activities covered by the programme, it is proposed to move subprogramme 4, Investment and technology, from programme 13, Trade and development, to programme 17 as subprogramme 3, Investment and technology.