Investment policy

Monitoring trade and investment measures

 

‌G20 governments must step up efforts to resist protectionism, says OECD, WTO, UNCTAD report

31/10/2012 - In their 8th report to the G20, the organisations say that strengthened multilateral co-operation is needed and urge countries to show leadership in keeping markets open. 

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Reports to G20 on trade and investment measures

The leaders of the G20, which comprises the world’s largest economies, are firmly committed to open trade and investment and to resisting protectionism in all its forms. They have mandated WTO, OECD and UNCTAD – the leading international organisations in the area of international trade and investment policies – to monitor policy developments and report publicly on these commitments.

 


Reports on investment measures

Under its Freedom of Investment process, the OECD has stepped up monitoring of investment policies and issues regular reports on investment measures in the 55 economies that participate in the process:
 

 

Related documents and links

Freedom of investment at the OECD

Codes of liberalisation

Foreign Direct Investment Statistics

More about OECD and the G20

 



 

 

 

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