The global community can address the collapse of investment following COVID-19, drive digital transformation, and help achieve the SDGs through five actions: (1) establish a Facility and Fund to provide resources for technical assistance and facilitate private-public collaboration, including...

The global community can address the collapse of investment following COVID-19, drive digital transformation, and help achieve the SDGs through five actions: (1) establish a Facility and Fund to provide resources for technical assistance and facilitate private–public collaboration, including...

The world needs more 'Green FDI', FDI that contributes to environmental objectives, including especially to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Goals have been set by countries and MNEs to reduce emissions. To support meeting these commitments—and encourage additional MNEs to reduce...

Outward FDI policy can be understood as progressing down a path that informs the growing selection of home-country measures (HCMs), which can be used to both leverage existing and develop new capacity. The Product Space can help select HCMs to target goods and services that are slightly more...

The world needs more "Green FDI" that contributes to environmental objectives, including the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Goals have been set by countries and MNEs to reduce emissions. To support meeting these commitments–and encourage additional MNEs to reduce emissions–this...

There are growing win-win opportunities for partnership between investment-related institutions in different economies, both for knowledge sharing and to facilitate two-way investment. This Perspective proposes concrete ways to launch a program to grow such partnerships while providing...

The Inventory was prepared in the framework of the investment facilitation for development project undertaken by the International Trade Centre (ITC) and the German Development Institute (DIE). It is an informal and unofficial compilation of investment facilitation measures, their rationale and...

New technologies can help drive sustainable development, what can be called “SusTech” solutions. But how can these be supported by governments adopted by firms (especially in managing value chains) and encouraged by users? This policy brief proposes a threepart solution: (1) The G20 should...

This presentation, at the first webinar of the T20 Task Force 1 on Trade, Investment, and Growth during the Saudi Arabian G20 Presidency, argues for twin efforts directed at 'Digital FDI' and Sustainable FDI. The author elaborates these concepts and a number of specific measures to advance these...