Mr. Yu Hua, Deputy Director General, China Investment Promotion Agency, Beijing, China

It was also reported that UNCTAD had carried out an assessment of the investment promotion capacity of the national investment promotion agency (Agence Nationale de Développement de l'Investissement).

4. Investment promotion

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

Investment promotion, foreign direct investment, transfer of technology.

The measures included improved access to foreign exchange, strengthening of the investment promotion centre, joining the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency and seeking relationships with national investment, credit and insurance organizations.

Good Governance in Investment Promotion

Yet, except for Costa Rica s foreign investment promotion agency, CINDE, modeled after the IDA Ireland, none of Latin America s FDI promotion agencies have succeeded in adopting best practices.

Investment promotion The Advisory Service on Investment and Training (ASIT)

Work has started to define priorities for establishing institutions needed for private sector development, including an investment promotion agency (a priority).

(b) Private Investment Promotion Office (OPIP)

3. Trade development and investment promotion

Guinean Agency for Employment Promotion (AGUIPE).

The Review action plan recommended that action be taken to review and update the current investment legislation, to reform land access, to strengthen the local investment promotion agency, to promote good governance and to devise proactive policies dedicated to the promotion of national and regional investment opportunities.

In terms of investment promotion strategies, investment promotion agencies (IPAs) are mainly focused on investors based in developed countries.

Service Module 2 Investment and technology promotion

2. Investment promotion and private sector development

These could include investment promotion fiscal and other measures support for venture capital companies making the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) more effective support for institution building and human resources development.

The Investment Promotion Centre had been turned into the Kenya Investment Authority on 3 October 2005 in order to strengthen its role in investment promotion and aftercare.

Support has continued to the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA), which includes 46 investment promotion agencies from Africa as members.

The principal outputs of the investment promotion component comprise

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Examples of the latter could include provisions aimed at enterprise development, OFDI promotion programmes and outbound investment missions in conjunction with investment promotion authorities.

The UNIDO global system of World Investment Network Services (WINS) is the key institutional mechanism for investment promotion and its further expansion through additional Investment Promotion Service (IPS) offices is foreseen.

In addition, two UNIDO investment promotion initiatives were recently established with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UNIDO UK Investment Promotion Initiative IPI) and Australia (Trade and Investment Promotion Service TIPS, with offices in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney).

The training courses in investment promotion covered investment promotion strategies, techniques and practices at the national level, but also at the regional and subnational levels.

In 1961, the Economic Development Board (EDB) of Singapore was established as a one stop investment promotion agency to assist foreign firms in their operations in Singapore.

Technical cooperation to chambers of commerce, investment and export promotion

In particular, many LDCs had recently established investment promotion agencies and were entering into bilateral, regional and interregional agreements for the protection and promotion of investment.

The Washington based Eastern Caribbean Investment Promotion Service had assisted in the visit to the Territory of an investment and trade promotion mission from North America.

Programme Component D.4 Promotion of Domestic Investment, FDI and Alliances

Report of the Expert Meeting on Good Governance and Investment Promotion

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

In addition, efforts need to be directed towards entrepreneurship and investment promotion.

Along with these revisions have come requests for assistance in investment promotion.

Data banks based on the DIPP (Databank for Investment Promotion Programmes) software system were installed and personnel trained in investment promotion agencies in Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mozambique and Zambia.

In the case of China, OFDI approval procedures have been simplified and the Investment Promotion Agency, established under the Ministry of Commerce, provides support in helping Chinese enterprises to invest abroad.

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.

Italy had always attached great importance to UNIDO investment promotion and technology transfer.

Special training in investment promotion was given to diplomats from Nicaragua and Peru.

99. UNIDO will focus its investment promotion services primarily on medium sized investors.

Developing countries must also increase their promotion of private enterprise, investment and exports.

In Djibouti, the installation of the Investment Gateway, which is an Internet based interactive platform for investment promotion, is under way.

More emphasis should be placed on investment and technology promotion in order to attract foreign direct investment through South South cooperation.

72. In Burkina Faso, one of three active projects concentrates on a revision of the mining investment laws and investment promotion.