FDI Is Falling – Can MDBs Help?

FDI Is Falling – Can MDBs Help?
The session will feature a presentation of UNCTAD’s 2024 World Investment Report, focusing on global investment trends, policies, and treaties, followed by a discussion on the implications for the World Bank Group. FDI flows to low and middle-income countries are falling.
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Date & Time
July 11, 2024 - July 11, 2024
Location
MC2-800 World Bank Group or watch online via Webex

The session will feature a presentation of UNCTAD’s 2024 World Investment Report, focusing on global investment trends, policies, and treaties, followed by a discussion on the implications for the World Bank Group. FDI flows to low and middle-income countries are falling. What are the implications for the World Bank Group? Should MDBs try to help reverse the trend? Can they?

 

Date: Thursday, July 11, 2024

Time: 10-11 am 

Interventions from the floor and Q&A

Watch the event recording here.

 

Chair

Ethiopis 

Junaid Kamal Ahmad

Vice President of Operations, MIGA

   

Presenter

 

Richard Bolwijn

Director of Investment Research, UNCTAD 

   

Panelists

 

Paolo Mauro

Director, Economics and Market Research Director, IFC

    

Asya Akhlaque

Practice Manager, Global Investment Climate, Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice, World Bank

    

Dilip Ratha

Economic Adviser, MIGA/Lead Economist, World Bank