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Transfer of Technology

Series: UNCTAD Series on Issues in International Investment Agreements (Series One)
( Print: February 2002 )

This paper discusses the issue of technology transfer in the context of international investment agreements (IIAs) and is divided into four main sections. The first section is an explanation of the...

This paper discusses the issue of technology transfer in the context of international investment agreements (IIAs) and is divided into four main sections. The first section is an explanation of the...


Trends in International Investment Agreements

An Overview

Series: UNCTAD Series on Issues in International Investment Agreements (Series One)
( Print: March 2000 )

In the past four decades, national and international legal policies and rules concerning foreign direct investment (FDI) have repeatedly changed. This paper provides an overview of the developments in...

In the past four decades, national and international legal policies and rules concerning foreign direct investment (FDI) have repeatedly changed. This paper provides an overview of the developments in...


Lessons from the MAI

Series: UNCTAD Series on Issues in International Investment Agreements (Series One)
( Print: March 2000 )

This publication considers the factors that contributed to the decision of the members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to discontinue the negotiations on the Multilateral...

This publication considers the factors that contributed to the decision of the members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to discontinue the negotiations on the Multilateral...


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Illicit Payments

Series: UNCTAD Series on Issues in International Investment Agreements (Series One)
( Print: November 2001 )

This paper examines the topic of transnational bribery in the context of international investment agreements (IIAs), as well as other international instruments that address issues related to the...

This paper examines the topic of transnational bribery in the context of international investment agreements (IIAs), as well as other international instruments that address issues related to the...


Home Country Measures

Series: UNCTAD Series on Issues in International Investment Agreements (Series One)
( Print: December 2001 )

Most international negotiations on foreign direct investment focus on issues involving the paired relationship between transnational corporations and host countries. This publication discusses the...

Most international negotiations on foreign direct investment focus on issues involving the paired relationship between transnational corporations and host countries. This publication discusses the...


Foreign Direct Investment and Development

Series: UNCTAD Series on Issues in International Investment Agreements (Series One)
( Print: June 1999 )

The importance of foreign direct investment for development has dramatically increased in recent years. This concise study offers balanced and easily accessible analysis of the issues involved...

The importance of foreign direct investment for development has dramatically increased in recent years. This concise study offers balanced and easily accessible analysis of the issues involved...


Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund

Fifty-first Session (10-19 July 2002)

Series: Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board
( Print: November 2002 )

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Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board

Fifty-second Session (13-23 July 2004)

Series: Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board
( Print: November 2004 )

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Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board

Fifty-third Session (13-21 July 2006)

Series: Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board
( Print: November 2006, PDF: November 2006 )

The present report is submitted by the Board following its fifty-third session, held from 13 to 21 July 2006 at the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON). It: 1) provides an overview of the...

The present report is submitted by the Board following its fifty-third session, held from 13 to 21 July 2006 at the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON). It: 1) provides an overview of the...


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Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board

Fifty-fifth Session (10-18 July 2008)

Series: Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board
( Print: October 2008, PDF: October 2008 )

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Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board

Fifty-Seventh Session (15-23 July 2010)

Series: Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board
( Print: October 2010, PDF: October 2010 )

Official Records of the Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board.

Official Records of the Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board.


Investment-Related Trade Measures

Series: UNCTAD Series on Issues in International Investment Agreements (Series One)
( Print: August 1999 )

Investment-related trade measures help shape the attractiveness of the investment climate by altering trade conditions associated with a given country or region. This concise study offers balanced and...

Investment-related trade measures help shape the attractiveness of the investment climate by altering trade conditions associated with a given country or region. This concise study offers balanced and...


Scope and Definition

Series: UNCTAD Series on Issues in International Investment Agreements (Series One)
( Print: June 1999 )

Investment agreements must specify not only their geographical and temporal coverage but, and most importantly, their subject-matter coverage, which is done primarily through the provisions on...

Investment agreements must specify not only their geographical and temporal coverage but, and most importantly, their subject-matter coverage, which is done primarily through the provisions on...


Transfer Pricing

Series: UNCTAD Series on Issues in International Investment Agreements (Series One)
( Print: June 1999 )

Transfer pricing methods raise important and contentious policy questions for both host and home governments, as well as transnational corporations, as they directly affect the amount of profit...

Transfer pricing methods raise important and contentious policy questions for both host and home governments, as well as transnational corporations, as they directly affect the amount of profit...


Admission and Establishment

Series: UNCTAD Series on Issues in International Investment Agreements (Series One)
( Print: May 1999 )

The legal and policy options surrounding the admission and establishment of foreign direct investment by transnational corporations into host countries, is a topic that raises questions central to...

The legal and policy options surrounding the admission and establishment of foreign direct investment by transnational corporations into host countries, is a topic that raises questions central to...


Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment

Series: UNCTAD Series on Issues in International Investment Agreements (Series One)
( Print: June 1999 )

The most-favoured-nation treatment (MFN) standard is a core element of international investment agreements, it gives investors a guarantee against certain forms of discrimination by host countries...

The most-favoured-nation treatment (MFN) standard is a core element of international investment agreements, it gives investors a guarantee against certain forms of discrimination by host countries...


Fair and Equitable Treatment

Series: UNCTAD Series on Issues in International Investment Agreements (Series One)
( Print: September 1999 )

The concept of fair and equitable treatment, which has assumed prominence in investment relations between States, provides a yardstick by which relations between foreign direct investors and...

The concept of fair and equitable treatment, which has assumed prominence in investment relations between States, provides a yardstick by which relations between foreign direct investors and...


National Treatment

Series: UNCTAD Series on Issues in International Investment Agreements (Series One)
( Print: November 1999 )

In international investment agreements, the national treatment standard extended by a host country to foreign investors, touches upon economically and politically sensitive issues as it seeks to...

In international investment agreements, the national treatment standard extended by a host country to foreign investors, touches upon economically and politically sensitive issues as it seeks to...


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Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board

Sixty-first Session (10-18 July 2014)

Series: Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board
( Print: January 2016, PDF: March 2016 )

This is the official report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board on its sixty-first session for the period of 10 to 18 July 2014.

This is the official report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board on its sixty-first session for the period of 10 to 18 July 2014.


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Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board

Fifty-ninth Session (3-11 July 2012)

Series: Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board
( Print: October 2013, PDF: July 2016 )

Official Records of the Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board.

Official Records of the Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board.