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A report by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) shows a more than six percent rise in foreign direct investment in Iran last year.

Nigeria is West Africa’s largest recipient of Foreign direct investment (FDI) as its flow doubled to $4.8 billion in 2021, mainly because of a resurgence in investments

FDI in Bangladesh rose to $2.9bn in 2021, around pre-pandemic level: UNCTAD

Foreign Direct Investment inflows to India declined USD 19 billion to USD 45 billion in 2021 but the country still remained among the top 10 global economies for FDI last year, the United Nations said on Thursday.

Global FDI recovered to pre-pandemic levels in 2021, reaching nearly $1.6 trillion, but this is unlikely to be sustained in 2022, said the United Nations' trade and development agency UNCTAD.

The ideal of making Kenya a global digital hub is hinged upon the Digital Literacy Programme.

The Secretary-General said that the conflict, which began on Feb. 24, has already taken thousands of lives, caused untold destruction, displaced millions of people, resulted in unacceptable violations of human rights and is inflaming a three-dimensional global crisis — food, energy and finance — that is pummeling the most vulnerable people, countries and economies.

A senior UN official had “constructive discussions” in Moscow with Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov on facilitating Russian grain and

EAST African Community (EAC) partner states are working to come up with a common blue economy strategy that will align all the key sectors to boost its contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

We are killing the planet through the use of technology, said Gerry McGovern, author of the book “World Wide Waste”