tailieunhanh - WORL INVESTMENT REPORT 2007: Transnational Corporations, Extractive Industries and Development

The resulting product profited from further input from Mark Stern and Susan Seifert, Joan Shigekawa of the Rockefeller Foundation, and TRF staff, Patricia Smith, Margaret Berger Bradley, Ira Goldstein, Julia Serbulov and Alissa Weiss. A special thank you as well to David Bradley for his collaborative editorial contribution. Arts practitioners, developers and policy analysts who participated in a one-day convening in June 2007 also contributed greatly to our understanding of these issues. The collaboration also resulted in five briefs. Each paper delves into related issues: Cultivating “Natural” Cultural Districts; From Creative Economy to Creative Society; Migrants, Communities and Culture; Crane. | EMBARGO The contents of this Report must not be quoted or summarized in the press on radio or on television before 16 October 2007 - 17 00 hours GMT UNITED NATIONS UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT WORLD INVESTMENT REPORT Transnational Corporations Extractive Industries and Development UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT WORLD 1 INVESTMENT REPORT Transnational Corporations Extractive Industries and Development UNITED NATIONS New York and Geneva 2007 ii World Investment Report 2007 Transnational Corporations Extractive Industries and Development NOTE As the focal point in the United Nations system for investment and technology and building on 30 years of experience in these areas UNCTAD through DITE promotes understanding of key issues particularly matters related to foreign direct investment and transfer of technology. DITE also assists developing countries in attracting and benefiting from FDI and in building their productive capacities and international competitiveness. The emphasis is on an integrated policy approach to investment technological capacity building and enterprise development. The terms country economy as used in this Report also refer as appropriate to territories or areas the designations employed and the presentation of the material do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country territory city or area or of its authorities or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. In addition the designations of country groups are intended solely for statistical or analytical convenience and do not necessarily express a judgement about the stage of development reached by a particular country or area in the development process. The major country groupings used in this Report follow the classification of the United Nations Statistical Office. These are Developed countries the countries members of the OECD other