WIR
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.
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