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UNCTAD-OECD Reports on G20 Investment Measures

The leaders of the G20, which comprises the world’s largest economies, are firmly committed to open trade and investment and to resisting protectionism in all its forms.

They have mandated WTO, OECD and UNCTAD, the leading organizations in the area of international trade and investment policies, to monitor policy developments and report publicly on these commitments.

All Reports on G20 Investment Measures: click here to see list

Most recent reports:

UNCTAD-OECD Report on G20 Investment Measures (29th report)

UNCTAD-OECD Report on G20 Investment Measures (28th report)

UNCTAD-OECD Report on G20 Investment Measures (27th report)

UNCTAD-OECD Report on G20 Investment Measures (26th Report)

UNCTAD-OECD Report on G20 Investment Measures (25th Report)

G20 Compendium on Promoting Investment for Sustainable Development (Bali Compendium)

The compendium includes strategies, policies, investment promotion activities and international collaboration initiatives of the G20 and some associated countries aimed at promoting investment in sectors linked to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNCTAD prepared the compendium under the guidance of the Indonesian presidency of the G20, with inputs from all G20 members and some associated countries.

G20 Compendium on Promoting Investment for Sustainable Development

G20 Trade, Investment and Industry Ministers Meeting, Bali, 22-23 September 2022, Chair's Summary

Promoting Sustainable Investment in Renewable Energy for Global Economic Recovery, Issues Paper, 2nd G20 Trade, Investment and Industry Working Group Meeting, 6-7 July 2022

G20 Non-Binding Policy Toolkit: Promoting Born Green via Digital MSMEs and Entrepreneurship in Global Supply Chains

UNCTAD led the substantive backstopping of the international organizations to the preparation for the G20 Policy Toolkit on Born Green via Digital MSMEs, under the Italian Presidency.

G20 Non-Binding Policy Toolkit: Promoting Born Green via Digital MSMEs and Entrepreneurship in Global Supply Chains

This short paper elaborates on the conceptual framework and core steps in its development. It is meant to shed light, from an insider’s perspective, on its relevance in guiding future policy initiatives in the area of entrepreneurship and MSMEs development by G20 and non G20 economies.

Born Green via Digital: Increasing MSME’s Competitiveness and Sustainability - A Facilitators’ Reflection on the G20 Policy Toolkit

G20 Guiding Principles for Global Investment Policymaking

In September 2016, G20 leaders endorsed the guiding principles of the Hangzhou Summit. Drawing on the UNCTAD Policy Framework, the G20 Principles constituted the first time that multilateral consensus on investment matters had been reached between a varied group of developed, developing and transition economies.

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G20 investment policy data by country

The Country Navigator is the entry point for all country specific investment policy data:

  • Policy measures
  • Laws
  • International investment agreements
  • Known treaty-based ISDS cases

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