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Dear Members of the World Investment Network (WIN),

I am pleased to share with you the 10th issue of our Joint UNCTAD-OECD 
Report on G20 Investment Measures. During this reporting period, G20 
members, for the most part, honored their pledge not to introduce new 
restrictive policies for international investment. Most of the policy 
changes tended to eliminate investment restrictions and to facilitate 
inward or outward investment.

The 10th Joint Report builds on the findings of UNCTAD's 13th Global 
Investment Trends Monitor (GTM) and notes that in the first half of 2013, 
global foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows rose to USD 745 billion - 
an increase by 4 per cent compared to the first half of 2012. 

During the mid-May 2013 to mid-November 2013 reporting period, twelve G20 
members took some sort of investment-specific or investment-related 
measures or concluded international investment agreements (IIAs).
·       Six G20 members - Brazil, Canada, China, India, the Republic of 
Korea and Mexico - amended their investment-specific policies during the 
reporting period.
·       One G20 member - Germany - amended its investment policies related 
to national security.
·       Five G20 members - Canada, China, Japan, Turkey and the United 
States - concluded four bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and four 
other international investment agreements ("other IIAs").

This overall favourable picture of foreign investment policies of G20 
countries is confirmed when one looks back at overall investment policy 
development since the Washington G20 Summit in November 2008, which was 
the starting point for the joint UNCTAD-OECD G20 Reports.

Following the call by G20 Leaders at their St. Petersburg Summit, 5-6 
September 2013, both UNCTAD and the OECD remain committed to reinforcing 
and deepening their work towards enhancing investment policies through 
monitoring and policy development. On the UNCTAD side, the monitoring for 
G20 countries is complemented, among others, by UNCTAD's Investment Policy 
Monitor (IPM), a quarterly online publication which provides 
country-specific information about the latest developments in foreign 
investment policies, both at the national and international level, for 
countries all around the globe. 

I hope that you find this information interesting and would welcome any 
comments you may have. 

Let me invite you to also visit our Investment Policy Hub, and circulate 
this information to your networks.

With best regards, 

James Zhan 
Director 
Investment & Enterprise Division 
United Nations Conference on Trade & Development 
www.unctad.org/diae


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