How investment policies are responding to COVID-19

A special issue of UNCTAD’s Investment Policy Monitor presents the latest developments in national and international investment policies in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Countries are putting in place a variety of investment policies in response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a special issue of UNCTAD’s Investment Policy Monitor released on 4 May.

Such policies include facilitation and retention of investment, providing incentives, financial support to crisis-affected companies, supporting local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in supply chains, as well as protecting national security and public health through foreign investment screening. Read more…