{"id":16590,"date":"2025-09-04T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/?p=16590"},"modified":"2026-01-19T16:14:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:14:47","slug":"unctad-launches-database-on-investment-facilitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2025\/09\/04\/unctad-launches-database-on-investment-facilitation\/","title":{"rendered":"UNCTAD Launches Database on Investment Facilitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips7'>UNCTAD<\/span> has launched a new global <a href=\"https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/iia-mapping\/Facilitation\">database<\/a> dedicated to investment facilitation. The database offers detailed, comparative information on national policies and practices designed to attract and retain sustainable investment. It compiles best practices from around the world, enabling policy-makers to benchmark and refine their frameworks. It covers measures such as streamlining business entry procedures, enhancing aftercare services, and strengthening investor\u2013state communication mechanisms. By making this information publicly available, UNCTAD aims to promote transparency, foster policy learning, and inform evidence-based decision making. This initiative is part of a broader push to reframe investment facilitation as a development-oriented agenda, complementing ongoing <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips80'>WTO<\/span> discussions on the subject.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips7','United Nations Conference on Trade and Development'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips8','Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Comercio y Desarrollo'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips67','Energy Charter Treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips73','international investment agreement'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips80','World Trade Organization'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips100','investissement direct \u00e9tranger'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips106','asociaci\u00f3n p\u00fablica-privada'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips7'>UNCTAD<\/span> has launched a new global database dedicated to investment facilitation.<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips7','United Nations Conference on Trade and Development'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips8','Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Comercio y Desarrollo'); <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":16639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}