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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Dec 29, 20203 min
Top five trends in FDI to look out for in 2021
Foreign direct investment has been hard hit in 2020, with levels plummeting by 40–50%. Investment Monitor has identified five key trends...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Nov 3, 20201 min
UNESCAP Asia-Pacific Business Forum 2020 - all plenary sessions & break out sessions
Congratulations to the team at UNESCAP for the recent online edition of the Asia Pacific Business Forum 2020. For those of you who may...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Sep 18, 20202 min
BCG: The $10 Trillion Case for Open Trade
By Pedro Anaya, Natalie Blyth, Ravi Hanspal, Michael McAdoo, Sukand Ramachandran, Krishnan Ramadurai, and Sophie Schram For the past few...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Sep 17, 20202 min
World Bank: Lessons from Ethiopia and Vietnam - How COVID-19 is transforming global value chains?
Global value chains (GVCs) have powered economic transformation by enabling developing countries to specialize and catalyze growth and...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Sep 11, 20203 min
How Should we Future-Proof our Supply Chains?
When the pandemic dies down, trade will become the biggest threat to global supply chains. This will both drive up prices and make...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Sep 4, 20202 min
Preparing for Future Supply Chain Disruptions: Insights from the Field
Organizations across all industries—from automotive, consumer goods, and pharmaceuticals to transportation, electronics, and oil and...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Sep 2, 20201 min
DCSA's Thomas Bagge and the quest to digitise container shipping
Former Maersk executive Thomas Bagge has been chief executive and statutory director of Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) for...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Aug 26, 20203 min
Egypt to establish electronic Single Window system to track goods for 1st time
CAIRO – 25 August 2020: Egypt will establish an electronic system for the first time to track goods until the final release stage, and to...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Aug 13, 20201 min
BUILDING SUPPLY CHAIN RESILIENCE STARTS AT THE BORDER
Interesting article by Dr. Deborah Elms, Asian Trade Centre, Singapore who we must congratulate for being an incredibly busy advocate for...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Jul 7, 20202 min
Maersk Acquires Customs Broker KGH
Maersk said on Monday it had agreed to buy Sweden-based customs broker KGH Customs Services for 2.6 billion Swedish crowns ($281...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Jun 29, 20202 min
Vietnam lures US$6 billion FDI into industrial parks
Nearly US$6 billion in foreign direct investment was poured into Viet Nam’s industrial parks (IPs), processing zones and economic zones...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Jun 25, 20201 min
Dubai Customs Reaping Rich Dividends on Digital Investments
Digitalisation of trade facilitation is now fundamental and no longer a distant plan -Congratulations to Dubai Customs under the...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Jun 24, 20202 min
10 lessons Customs authorities have learned from COVID-19 - IADB
Over the past few months, Customs authorities in Latin America and the Caribbean have had to work hard and think outside the box in...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Jun 24, 20201 min
APEC: Why Trade is a Critical Response to COVID-19
Interesting insights By Krasna Bobenrieth When COVID-19 first started to garner attention at the beginning of 2020, nobody foresaw the...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Jun 23, 20201 min
5 ways to advance digital trade in the post-COVID world
Recommendations by GTDW Speaker Ziyang Fan Head of Digital Trade, World Economic Forum & Mike Gallaher The COVID-19 pandemic has...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Jun 23, 20201 min
World Bank: Global Investment Competitiveness Report 2019-2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be a destructive force, with devastating effects on livelihoods, employment, and investor confidence....
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Jun 11, 20201 min
CSIS: American & EU Companies Have Little Intention to Leave China
Decoupling Between Washington and Western Industry By Scott Kennedy and Shining Tan Although the Trump administration does not openly...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Apr 22, 20201 min
The Crucial Role of FDI Attraction In Times Of COVID19
The spread of the Coronavirus and its impacts have become increasingly visible during the last weeks and affect almost all dimensions of...
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GTDW FDI Trade & Supply Chain Digitalisation News
Apr 21, 20201 min
Indonesia, 12 cross-region countries agree to keep supply chains open
Top diplomats from 13 countries of a cross-regional network, including Indonesia, Singapore and Canada, have agreed on key principles of...
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