United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

Foreign direct investment in Greece registered a historic high in 2022, according to data from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

Its annual report on FDI, World Investment Report 2022, showed its value in Greece at $7.604 billion last year, against $6.328 billion in 2021, up by 20.2%. 

The volume of world trade in 2021 reached a record high of 28.5 trillion dollars. This is an increase of 25% compared to 2020, and compared to 2019 it is an increase of 13%. Growth in this area is expected to slow in the first quarter of this year, according to a report released today by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

The United Nations (UNCTAD) has declared Invest India as a winner of the Investment Promotion Award 2020.

The award ceremony took place on 7th December 2020 at UNCTAD Headquarters in Geneva. This United Nations Investment Promotion Award is the highest-level award for investment promotion agencies. 

The pandemic could push as many as 32 million people in the world's least developed countries into extreme poverty, a new UN report has said. Without international action, global development goals will be missed.

Greece remains the global leader in shipping, as the latest annual report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) shows that the share of the global merchant fleet owned by Greeks in terms of capacity has risen from 16.1 percent in 2015 to 16.36 percent this year.

The cost to tourism alone from the Russian crisis has been calculated at $5 billion. With trucks being kept waiting at the border and with fruits and vegetables returned, the cost of the crisis for the first six months of 2016 was calculated by some economists at $7.2 billion. 

In this case, Turkey needs to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) now more than any other time.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Turkey was $12.1 billion in 2014, making the country the 22nd most popular spot for investors in the world, while the country is expected take in another $12 billion this year, said Ahmet Erdem, head of the International Investors Association (YASED), in a joint meeting with the United Nation's Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on June 24. 

Asian countries are attracting some 70 percent of all global foreign direct investments (FDI), as investment flow to developed countries is on a fall, according to Mukhisa Kituy, the secretary general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).