Promoting Investment in the Sustainable Development Goals
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Page : 58 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 2018
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International Trade, Investment, and the Sustainable Development Goals
Author : Cosimo Beverelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 25,63 MB
Release : 2020-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108840884
Book Description
A multi-disciplinary investigation of how economic globalization can help achieve the UN's 2030 Agenda, exploring trade-offs among the Goals.
Investing in the SDGs
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,75 MB
Release : 2014
Category : International business enterprises
ISBN : 9789211128734
Book Description
This edition of the World Investment Report provides analysis on progress toward the Millennium Development Goals and vision for a more sustainable future beyond 2015. The Report reveals a trend: after a decline in 2012, global foreign direct investment flows rose by 9 per cent in 2013, with growth expected to continue in the years to come. This demonstrates the great potential of international investment, along with other financial resources, to help reach the goals of a post-2015 agenda for sustainable development. Transnational corporations can support this effort by creating decent jobs, generating exports, promoting rights, respecting the environment, encouraging local content, paying fair taxes and transferring capital, technology and business contacts to spur development. This Report offers a global action plan for galvanizing the role of businesses in achieving future sustainable development goals (SDGs), and enhancing the private sector's positive economic, social and environmental impacts. The Report identifies the financing gap, especially in vulnerable economies, assesses the primary sources of funds for bridging the gap, and proposes policy options for the future.
Sustainable Development Goals
Author : Julia Walker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1119541816
Book Description
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through Finance, Technology and Law Reform Achieving the SDGs requires a fundamental rethink from businesses and governments across the globe. To make the ambitious goals a reality, trillions of dollars need to be harnessed to mobilise finance and accelerate progress towards the SDGs. Bringing together leaders from the World Bank, the financial and business sectors, the startup community and academia, this important, topically relevant volume explains what the SDGs are, how they came about and how they can be accelerated. Real-world case studies and authoritative insights address how to direct investment of existing financial resources and re-align the global financial system to reflect the SDGs. In depth chapters discuss how financial institutions, such as UBS Wealth Management, Manulife Asset Management and Moody’s Rating Agency are supporting the SDGs. The opportunities arising from Blockchain, Big Data, Digital Identity and cutting-edge FinTech and RegTech applications are explored, whilst the relevance of sustainable and transparent global supply chains is underscored. Significant attention is paid to law reform which can accelerate progress of the SDGs through SME Financing, Crowdfunding, Peer-to-Peer Lending and tax restructuring. To achieve the ‘World We Want’, much needs to be done. The recommendations contained within this book are critical for supporting a fundamental shift in thinking from business and governments around the world, and for building a more just and prosperous future for all.
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2017
Author : United Nations Publications
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Page : 60 pages
File Size : 33,8 MB
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789211013689
Book Description
The aim of this report is to present an overview of the 17 Goals using data currently available to highlight the most significant gaps and challenges.
Sustainable Development in World Investment Law
Author : Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9041131663
Book Description
Sustainable development, as defined by the World Commission on Environment and Development, is "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." More specifically, sustainable development is a process of change that seeks to improve the collective quality of life by focusing on economically, socially, and environmentally sound projects that are viable in the long-term. Sustainable development requires structural economic change and the foundation of that change is investment. In developing nations with low levels of domestic savings, investment predictably comes from abroad in the form of foreign direct investment. A large and ever expanding number of international investment agreements are in place to govern these transactions. While these accords seek to foster development while mitigating the risk involved in these types investments, many questions remain unresolved. This highly insightful book reflects the contributions of a variety of world renowned experts each of which is designed to provide the reader with valuable perspective on recent developments in investment law negotiations and jurisprudence from a sustainable development law perspective. It offers answers to pertinent questions concerning advancements in investment law, including the negotiation of numerous regional and bilateral agreements as well as the increasing number of disputes resolved in the World Bank's International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), from different developed and developing country perspectives. It lays out future directions for new treaty negotiations and dispute settlement proceedings, as well as ongoing investment promotion efforts, against a background of rapidly evolving international relationships between economic, environment and development law. It focuses on key issues in investment laws which have emerged as priorities in the negotiation of bilateral and regional investment agreements, and have been clarified through recent decisions of the ICSID and other arbitral panel awards.
The Future of Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Enterprise
Author : Ravi Ramamurti
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0857245554
Book Description
This Festschrift in honour of Professor Yair Aharoni, a pioneer in the field of international business, looks at several of these new trends in FDI, what they will mean for firms and governments, and the opportunities created by these developments to enrich or extend extant theory.
From Summits to Solutions
Author : Raj M. Desai
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,42 MB
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0815736649
Book Description
A positive agenda for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 All 193 member nations of the United Nations agreed in September 2015 to adopt a set of seventeen "Sustainable Development Goals," to be achieved by 2030. Each of the goals—in such areas as education and health care —is laudable in and of itself, and governments and organizations are working hard on them. But so far there is no overall, positive agenda of what new things need to be done to ensure the goals are achieved across all nations. In a search of fresh approaches to the longstanding problems targeted by the Sustainable Development Goals, the Japan International Cooperation Agency and the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings mounted a collaborative research effort to advance implementation of Agenda 2030. This edited volume is the product of that effort. The book approaches the UN's goals through three broad lenses. The first considers new approaches to capturing value. Examples include Nigeria's first green bonds, practical methods to expand women's economic opportunities, benchmarking to reflect business contributions to achieving the goals, new incentives for investment in infrastructure, and educational systems that promote cross-sector problem solving. The second lens entails new approaches to targeting places, including oceans, rural areas, fast-growing developing cities, and the interlocking challenge of data systems, including geospatial information generated by satellites. The third lens focuses on updating governance, broadly defined. Issues include how civil society can align with the SDG challenge; how an advanced economy like Canada can approach the goals at home and abroad; what needs to be done to foster new approaches for managing the global commons; and how can multilateral institutions for health and development finance evolve.
Achieving Sustainable Development and Promoting Development Cooperation
Author : Department of Economic & Social Affairs
Publisher : United Nations Publications
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789211045871
Book Description
This book presents an overview of the key debates that took place during the Economic and Social Council meetings at the 2007 High-level Segment, at which ECOSOC organized its first biennial Development Cooperation Forum. The discussions also revolved around the theme of the second Annual Ministerial Review, "Implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to sustainable development."--P. 4 of cover.
Investing in the Sustainable Development Goals: The Role of Diplomats
Author : UNCTAD
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 46,68 MB
Release : 2021
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ISBN : 9789216040055
Book Description
This handbook is designed mainly for diplomats, commercial attachés, and trade representatives and offers guidance on how to promote and facilitate investment in projects that advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It covers the financing gap to achieve the SDGs by 2030, the role the private sector can play in reaching each Goal, the entities that may be involved in promoting and facilitating SDG investment, and the ways in which diplomats can become practically engaged in this process.
