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Investment promotion and facilitation: Resource library
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Investment promotion and facilitation
World Bank www.worldbank.org
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World Bank agencies provide substantial training and policy advice on investment promotion. The Foreign Investment Advisory Service (www.fias.net) offers assistance in diagnosing the investment climate, with recommendations for policy, regulatory and procedural reform, institutional frameworks for investment promotion and methods for monitoring effectiveness.
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While FIAS has traditionally focused on investment climate reform and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (www.miga.org) on technical assistance to governments and intermediaries involved in promoting investment, MIGA’s technical assistance services were integrated into FIAS in 2007.
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To support investment promotion intermediaries in achieving their objectives for attracting and retaining FDI, MIGA developed the Investment Promotion Toolkit (online at the MIGA/FIAS FDI Promotion Center www.fdipromotion.com). It serves as a handbook on investment promotion that can be used by IPAs, investment consultancies, sector ministries, international development organisations, national, state and local economic development agencies, and privatisation agencies, among others. The Toolkit comprises 9 modules devoted to:
• Understanding foreign direct investment
• Developing and investment promotion agency
• Creating an investment promotion strategy
• Building effective partnerships
• Strengthening the location’s image
• Targeting and generating investment opportunities
• Servicing investors
• Monitoring and evaluating activities and results
• Utilising information technology
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Another MIGA website (www.fdi.net) includes i.a. a directory of all IPAs worldwide, as well as links to the annual IPA Performance Review.
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The World Bank Doing Business project (www.doingbusiness.org) provides in-depth analysis of the costs of doing business and rankings of country performance.
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Morriset, J. “Does a country need a promotion agency to attract foreign direct investment?” Policy Research Working Paper 3028, World Bank, April 2003
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) www.unctad.org
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UNCTAD Advisory Services on Investment and Training (www.unctad.org/asit) provides instruction programmes for IPA staff to improve capacity.
World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (www.waipa.org)
WAIPA acts as a forum for IPAs to provide networking opportunities and facilitate the exchange of best practices in investment promotion. Membership is open to all agencies whose prime function is to promote any country or territory for investment.
Linkages between investors and local suppliers
UNCTAD www.unctad.org
United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) www.unido.org
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UNIDO operates a Cluster/Network Development Programme. See its publication - The Italian Experience of Industrial Districts
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UNIDO Subcontracting and Partnership Exchanges (SPXs) (www.unido.org/spx)
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Asia-Africa Investment Technology Promotion Centre (AAITPC) www.unido-aaitpc.org.
It provides an information technology platform (the TICAD Exchange Website) to share business related information on investment opportunities between Asia and Africa.
OECD
World Bank www.worldbank.org/International Finance Corporation www.ifc.org
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Advisory services to assist the development of the SME sector (www.ifc.org/sme)