Strategies for Promoting Foreign Investment and the Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Economies

This course will look at the role of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) at different stages of economic development, and it will investigate the changing characteristics of investment promotion and the interaction between governance and impact of FDI. In particular, modern methodologies for monitoring and managing investment flows and benchmarking of countries in terms of the effectiveness of their governance indicators will be investigated.

KÜLÜR F. Mithat Külür is Chief of UNIDO's Investment Promotion Unit and Deputy to the Director of the Investment and Technology Branch. In this position, he provides policy guidance and advice to government and private sector institutions. He also develops institutional and country strategies and conceives, designs and implements investment and technology promotion programs (e.g. the UNIDO-Africa Investment Promotion Agency Network).

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Author: Karin Glaser