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Promoting Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS

Series: Trade and Investment Guides

( Print: October 2000 )

Today, there are over 20 countries classified as transition economies. It is undeniable that a basic and essential challenge for all transition economies is still the attraction of investment and, in...

Standards and Regulations in International Trade

Series: Trade and Investment Guides

( Print: August 2000 )

This publication summarizes the proceedings of the Round Table on Standards, Norms and Regulations and their Impact on International Trade, focused primarily on central and eastern European countries...

Polish Experience of Transition, The

Accomplishments and Problems

Series: Trade and Investment Guides

( Print: February 2001 )

This publication discusses the different aspects of transition Poland has experienced during the last decade. The guide looks at encouraging private entrepreneurship; problems of stock exchanges in a...

Trade Finance in Transition Economies

Practical Ways to Support Exports and Imports

Series: Trade and Investment Guides

( Print: August 1999 )

The development of foreign trade in the transition economies depends largely on the availability of competitive exports and convertible currency funds for imports. This publication addresses practical...

Technology and Innovation Report 2015

Fostering Innovation Policies for Industrial Development

Series: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Technology and Innovation Report (TIR)

( Print: January 2016, PDF: December 2015 )

This report focuses on how innovation policies can expressly promote industrial development, and what lessons can be learnt from existing experiences of countries, both developing and developed. It...

Services in Transition Economies

Series: Trade and Investment Guides

( Print: July 2002 )

The rapid development of the services sector in domestic and international trade has been a major feature of the world’s economic development over the last thirty or more years. At the same time...

Freedom from Fear, Issue No.13

No Place for Young People

Series: Freedom from Fear

( PDF: July 2017 )

This journal aims to contribute to the advancement of knowledge and awareness of the international community's priority issues in the field of justice, crime prevention and human rights. The Magazine...

Freedom from Fear, Issue No.1

Illicit Traffic - The Invisible Hand

Series: Freedom from Fear

( PDF: October 2008 )

Freedom from Fear, Issue No.2

Security - Innovative Thinking

Series: Freedom from Fear

( PDF: January 2009 )

Freedom from Fear, Issue No.3

Pirates of the XXI Century - On the Treasure Hunt

Series: Freedom from Fear

( PDF: April 2009 )

Freedom from Fear, Issue No.4

How Many Can Fit Here?

Series: Freedom from Fear

( PDF: July 2009 )

Freedom from Fear, Issue No.4

20 Years without the Berlin Wall

Series: Freedom from Fear

( PDF: October 2009 )

Freedom from Fear, Issue No.6

Planning the Environment?

Series: Freedom from Fear

( PDF: March 2010 )

Freedom from Fear, Issue No.7

Cybercrimes - Looking for Safer Spaces?

Series: Freedom from Fear

( PDF: July 2010 )

Freedom from Fear, Issue No.8

Youths without Youth

Series: Freedom from Fear

( PDF: December 2010 )

Freedom from Fear, Issue No.9

Destabilization

Series: Freedom from Fear

( PDF: March 2011 )

Technology and Innovation Report 2018

Harnessing Frontier Technologies for Sustainable Development

Series: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Technology and Innovation Report (TIR)

( Print: December 2018, PDF: September 2018 )

The Technology and Innovation Report 2018 discusses the role of frontier technologies in sustainable development. It outlines the main features and the manifold ways in which they can accelerate...