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As per the Unctad report, the decrease was evident in both greenfield project announcements and international project finance deals.

BUSINESSES doing transactions over mobile phones more than doubled while those with social media accounts nearly doubled in 2019, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). Based on the final results of the 2019 Survey on Information and Communication Technology (SICT) for the Information Economy (IE), establishments that had business…

The UAE will attract a major share of $66 billion in potential FDI inflows into the Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan in 2023 as global investors consider the ...

Experts called for simplifying the access to climate financing and cheaper access to relevant technologies

THE Board of Investments (BOI) invited Hungarian firms to make use of the Philippines’s advantages such as the country’s abundance of green metals that the agency said can be used for battery production.      This was what Trade Undersecretary and BOI Managing Head Ceferino S. Rodolfo said in his welcome…

In 2021, Bangladesh with Pakistan, India, and Türkiye, accounted for 96% of the world’s ship recycling

SEC bags top honors from UN

Unctad identifies 45K new products with export potential

MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network): President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has removed from the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) the task of overseeing maritime training and accreditation after the country repeatedly failed to pass the European Maritime Safety Agency’s (Emsa) evaluation in the past 16 years.

FOREIGN investments intended for climate change mitigation and adaptation projects are expected to decline this year, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad). In its latest Investment Trends Monitor, Unctad said climate change-related investments have already plunged in the first three quarters of the year compared…