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COVID-19 and Responsible Business Conduct

This reviews the challenges the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis presents for business behaviour and outlines initial responses by governments and companies. It describes the rationale and method for adopting a responsible business conduct approach to address the crisis and sets down the potential short-term and long-term benefits of such an approach.

OECD Review of Foreign Direct Investment Statistics Jordan

This report will use this framework in its evaluation of Jordan's FDI statistics although some of these dimensions are more relevant for FDI statistics than others. The report begins with a summary of recent trends in Jordan's FDI.

OECD Review of Foreign Direct Investment Statistics Egypt

This project reviews Egypt's FDI statistics to assess their compatibility with the international guidelines (BPM6 and BMD4); to assess the data sources and estimation methods used; and to examine both the feasibility and the usefulness of compiling additional series, such as by country of ultimate investor.

OECD Review of Foreign Direct Investment Statistics of Tunisia

This report is based on Tunisia's response to a survey asking for information on their FDI statistics; discussions and information provided during and following a workshop on FDI statistics in Tunis in March 2019; on information provided by the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency (FIPA); on other sources of information on data sources and methods.

Examen par l’OCDE des statistiques d’investissement directs internationaux Tunisie

Le présent rapport utilise ce cadre pour évaluer les statistiques d’IDI de la Tunisie, bien que certaines dimensions soient plus importantes que d’autres dans le cas précis des statistiques d’IDI. Ce document présente d’abord un résumé des évolutions récentes de l’IDI en Tunisie.

OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct

The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises recommend that enterprises conduct due diligence in order to identify, prevent or mitigate and account for how actual and potential adverse impacts are addressed. This Due Diligence Guidance provides practical support to enterprises by providing plain language explanations of due diligence recommendations and associated provisions.

OECD International Direct Investment Statistics 2019

The most favoured nation and non-discrimination provisions in international trade law and the OECD codes of liberalisation

This paper sheds light on the two types of non-discrimination provisions considered the founding stones of the multilateral system: the most favoured nation (MFN) clause - as developed under the GATT and GATS - and the non-discrimination clause among countries adhering to the OECD Codes of Liberalisation.

Drivers of divestment decisions of multinational enterprises

Divestment by multinational enterprises is an important yet understudied phenomenon. The few available estimates indicate that about a fifth of all foreign affiliates are divested every five years. This working paper presents the findings from a novel cross-country firm-level dataset with financial and ownership information.

The Policy Framework for Investment (PFI)

The Policy Framework for Investment (PFI) is a non-prescriptive tool for improving investment policy for development. It helps governments to design and implement policy reforms to create a truly attractive, robust and competitive environment for domestic and foreign investment.