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FOREIGN INVESTMENT LAT AME 2006

Foreign Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 2006

21 Sep 2007
In 2006, foreign direct investment inflows to Latin America and the Caribbean continued their upward trend, reaching over US$ 72 billion. At the same, however, the region's share of global FDI inflows declined, as flows increased more rapidly in other parts of the world. The main message of this ...
UNCITRAL YRBK 2003 (CD) (R)

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Yearbook 2003 (A & B) (Russian language)

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Yearbook 2003 (A & B) (Russian language)

Series:
United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Yearbook
25 Jan 2008
This publication reproduces the substantive documents prepared each year for the Commission and its working groups. It includes the annual report of the Commission, meeting records, General Assembly resolutions and Sixth Committee reports related to UNCITRAL's work, and a bibliography of recent s...
CONTROV ENTRE INVERSORES ESTADOS

Controversias entre Inversores y Estados Basadas en Tratados Internacionales

Examen General

Series:
Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Comercio y Desarrollo
21 Sep 2007
La solución de controversias entre los inversores y los Estados en los que realizan sus operaciones es un aspecto clave del sistema de protección de la inversión establecido por los acuerdos internacionales de inversiones. De ahí que la mayoría de esos acuerdos contengan disposiciones relativas a...
UN DISARMAMENT YRBK 2006 V31 A

United Nations Disarmament Yearbook 2006 (Arabic language)

Series:
United Nations Disarmament Yearbook (Arabic)
11 May 2010
The volume 31 compiles the disarmament resolutions and decisions of the sixty-first session of the General Assembly, the voting patterns in the General Assembly and the First Committee report and dates of their adoption. It summarizes developments and trends in 2006 on key issues of multilateral ...
TRANSPORTE MARITIMO EN 2007

El transporte marítimo en 2007

Series:
Transporte Marítimo, El
16 Sep 2008
Este informe anual facilita las principales estadísticas relativas al transporte marítimo mundial y se centra en las actividades marítimas de los países en desarrollo en comparación con otros. Asimismo, muestra la correlación entre el desarrollo del comercio mundial y el transporte marítimo. El c...
ETUDE TRANSPORTS MARITIM 2007

Étude sur les transports maritimes 2007

Series:
Etude sur les transports maritimes
6 Mar 2009
Cette étude décrit les principales tendances des transports maritimes mondiaux et fournit des données statistiques pertinentes sur le sujet. Elle met l’accent sur l’évolution des activités de transport maritime des pays en développement en comparaison avec d’autres groupes de pays. Elle met aussi...
INVEST POLICY REV ZAMBIA

Investment Policy Review - Zambia

Series:
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Investment Policy Reviews
21 Sep 2007
To date, the performance of the Zambian private sector had been poor due largely to the high cost of capital and domestic inputs for local production, which make sustaining competitiveness in an open economy practically difficult. The present Investment Review notes that since the introduction of...
REVIEW MARITIME TRANS 2007

Review of Maritime Transport 2007

Series:
Review of Maritime Transport
27 Feb 2008
The 2007 review identifies the main developments in world maritime transport and provides relevant statistical data. It focuses on developments concerning maritime activities in developing countries as compared with other groups of countries. It highlights the correlation between the development ...
INFORME SOBRE COMERCIO DESARR 2007

Informe sobre el Comercio y el Desarrollo 2007

Cooperación Regional para el Desarrollo

Series:
Informe sobre el comercio y el desarrollo
30 Apr 2008
Esta edición del Informe anticipa un quinto año consecutivo de crecimiento general y de demanda continuada de productos primarios que contribuyen a un aumento general del producto domestico bruto por capita en los países en vías de desarrollo. Sin embargo, el informe advierte de que el riesgo pri...
TRADE & DEV RPT 2007 (R)

Trade and Development Report 2007 (Russian language)

Regional Cooperation for Development

Series:
United Nations Trade and Development Report
30 Apr 2008
n its analysis of global economic prospects, the Report says the current global economic environment provides great opportunities for catch-up growth and meeting the Millennium Development Goals. However, the world economy is overshadowed by serious current-account imbalances, and by large specul...
TRADE & DEV RPT 2007 (A)

Trade and Development Report 2007 (Arabic language)

Regional Cooperation for Development

Series:
United Nations Trade and Development Report (Arabic)
30 Apr 2008
In its analysis of global economic prospects, the Report says the current global economic environment provides great opportunities for catch-up growth and meeting the Millennium Development Goals. However, the world economy is overshadowed by serious current-account imbalances, and by large specu...
REVIEW MARITIME TRANSPORT 2007 (R)

Review of Maritime Transport 2007 (Russian language)

Series:
Review of Maritime Transport
24 Sep 2008
The Review of Maritime Transport provides an analysis of structural and cyclical changes affecting seaborne trade, ports and shipping, as well as an extensive collection of statistical information.
REVIEW MARITIME TRANSPORT 2007 (A)

Review of Maritime Transport 2007 (Arabic language)

Series:
Review of Maritime Transport (Arabic)
30 Jul 2008
The Review of Maritime Transport provides an analysis of structural and cyclical changes affecting seaborne trade, ports and shipping, as well as an extensive collection of statistical information.

TRADE & DEV RPT 2007

Trade and Development Report 2007

Regional Cooperation for Development

Series:
United Nations Trade and Development Report
7 Sep 2007
The current edition of the Report anticipates a fifth consecutive year of overall output growth and continued strong demand for primary commodities contributing to an overall increase in per capita gross domestic product in developing countries. The main risk to this positive scenario, the Report...
WORLD INVESTMENT RPT 2007

World Investment Report 2007

Transnational Corporations, Extractive Industries and Development (Includes CD-ROM)

Series:
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) World Investment Report (WIR)
25 Oct 2007
The role of transnational corporations in extractive industries is attracting renewed attention, partly as a result of rising commodity prices and increased demand from emerging economies. This year, the World Investment Report examines TNC’s activities in extractive industries and their developm...
UNCTAD HNDBK STAT 2006/07 (DVD)

UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2006-2007 (DVD-ROM)

Series:
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Handbook of Statistics / Manuel de Statistiques de la CNUCED
10 Aug 2007
The UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2006-2007 on DVD provides a comprehensive collection of statistical data relevant to the analysis of international trade, investment and development, for individual countries and for economic and trade groupings. The DVD presents reference statistics considered o...
UNCITRAL GUIDE ON INT TRADE LAW

The UNCITRAL Guide

Basic Facts about the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law

24 Aug 2007
In an increasingly economically interdependent world, the importance of an improved legal framework for the facilitation of international trade and investment is widely acknowledged. The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law plays an important role in developing that framework in p...
UNCTAD HNDBK STAT 2006/07

UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2006-2007

Series:
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Handbook of Statistics / Manuel de Statistiques de la CNUCED
10 Aug 2007
The UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2006-07 provides a comprehensive collection of statistical data relevant to the analysis of international trade, investment and development, for individual countries and for economic and trade groupings. The publication presents consolidated reference statistics ...
ANN REVIEW OF DEV GLOBAL 2006 (A)

Annual Review of Developments in Globalization and Regional Integration in the Countries of the ECSWA Region, 2006 (Arabic language)

Series:
Annual Review of Developments in Globalization and Regional Integration in the Arab Countries
13 Jul 2007
The fifth edition of the "2006 Annual Review" assesses progress made in integrating Arab economies into the world economy and the extent to which regional integration has been achieved. The Review aims to help readers understand the opportunities and challenges of globalization, the need to exped...
ISO 22000 FOOD SAFETY MANAGEMENT

ISO 22000

Food Safety Management Systems—An Easy-to-use Checklist for Small Business—Are You Ready? (Includes CD-ROM)

13 Jul 2007
This Checklist consists of questions covering various aspects of the setting-up, implementation and certification of a food safety management system according to ISO 22000. The Checklist is broken into 13 parts, each covering a particular aspect of ISO 22000, with a brief explanation of the relev...
AFRICA FOREIGN INVESTOR SURV 2005

Africa Foreign Investor Survey 2005

Understanding the Contributions of Different Investor Categories to Development Implications for Targeting Strategies

29 Jun 2007
The Survey, the third in the series, was conducted between May and November 2005 in 15 sub-Saharan African countries. This year the study develops detailed profiles of the different types of foreign investors that operate in the region and looks at the variations in characteristics between as wel...
FINANCE FOR TRADE

Finance for Trade

1 Jun 2007
This guide is a road map for navigating the waters that have been charted over years of accumulated expertise in trade financing. It is intended as a practical work of reference that draws on and adapts traditional and new techniques, mechanisms, instruments and in situations with the intent to s...
ACUERDOS LIBRE COMERCIO ENTRE

Acuerdos de Libre Comercio entre los Países Andinos y los Estados Unidos

¿Cuánto se Puede Esperar de Ellos ?

Series:
Comercio Internacional
4 May 2007
Utilizando la base de datos GTAP y el modelo de Equilibrio General Computable asociado, este trabajo se centra en evaluar los efectos de tres tratados de libre comercio bilaterales, realizados en forma simultánea, por Colombia, Ecuador y Perú, con los Estados Unidos.
INVEST POLICY REV RWANDA

Investment Policy Review - Rwanda

Series:
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Investment Policy Reviews
21 Sep 2007
Rwanda is among the world’s poorest nations, and it faces particular challenges in leveraging FDI for development. The present Investment Review notes that Rwanda has nevertheless achieved remarkable political and social progress since 1994. It has become one of Africa’s countries with the highes...
WORLD INVESTMENT RPT 2004

World Investment Report 2004

The Shift Towards Services

Series:
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) World Investment Report (WIR)
22 Oct 2006
The World Investment Report is recognized worldwide as an authoritative source of information and analysis on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). It focuses on FDI trends at the regional and country levels and emerging measures to improve its contribution to development. This year's report examines ...