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SADC–IISD Investment Facilitation Workshop

2 Jan 2019

In addition, one expert of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) led some of the sessions remotely.2 The three-day workshop was the first meeting on the issue of investment facilitation held at SADC regional level and, to the best knowledge of all of the participants and experts, the first meeting of developing country government representatives to actually focus on discu [...] It should be an integral part of the overall investment policy framework, aimed at maximizing the benefits of investment and minimizing negative side effects.”9 Traditional investment facilitation models, of the type developed by the OECD in the early and mid-2000s (e.g., OECD Policy Framework for Investment), focused on the investment environment for the investor, largely to the exclusion of issu [...] The workshop developed these issues, for the first time in any governmental forum, in an interactive and 8 The Brazilian proposal for a WTO agreement on investment facilitation also mentions “expansion” along with “admission, establishment and acquisition.” Throughout the workshop, discussion among participants reflected an understanding that the expansion of investments, from the point of view of [...] It raises issues in the following five action areas, identified as having a strong bearing on the investment environment in the region: (1) transparent and coherent investment environment; (2) market access and competition; (3) investment security and protection of investors’ rights; (4) responsible business and inclusive investment for development; and (5) promotion of regional and international [...] This new generation of investment policies has been in the making for some time, and is reflected in the dichotomy in policy directions over the last few years – with simultaneous moves to further liberalize investment regimes and promote foreign investment, on the one hand, and to regulate investment in pursuit of public policy objectives on the other.
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35
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Winnipeg, MN, CA

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