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The World Development Report 2014 Risk and Opportunity: Managing Risk for Development looked at risk management from a development perspective. It argued that managing risks such as job loss, crime, disease, disaster, social unrest, and financial and macroeconomic turbulence responsibly can save lives, avert damages, prevent development ...
Significant measures have been taken to liberalize the Tanzanian economy along market lines and encourage both foreign and domestic private investment.Beginning in 1986, the Government of Tanzania embarked on an adjustment program to dismantle the socialist economic controls and encourage more active participation of the private sector in the economy.
Egypt was the first Arab and African country to join the investment committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as a participant, the lead FDI recipient country in Africa, and second among the Arab countries in United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 2007 'World Investment Report.'
The 2018 "Inclusive Wealth Report" found that, of 140 countries analyzed, inclusive wealth increased by 44% from 1990 to 2014, implying an average annual growth rate of 1.8%. On a per capita basis, 89 of 140 countries had increased inclusive wealth per capita. 96 of 140 countries had increased inclusive wealth per capita when adjusted. [ 3 ]
In spite of the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report which is increasingly identifying environmental pressures as the dominant risks to humanity, none of the indicators used to determine this report's competitiveness ranking reflect any of the countries' environmental dimensions such as energy, water, climate risks, resource or food security, etc.
The inaugural World Investment Forum [2] was held in Accra, Ghana, on the occasion of the twelfth UNCTAD Ministerial Conference [2] in April 2008. It focused on the future of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows: where FDI will come from and which sectors and regions will be the main targets of these flows, as well as the features of corporate strategies that will drive cross-border investment.
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Danish Growth Fund / Export and Investment Fund of Denmark [59] 4: Non-commodity Nigeria: Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority / Bayelsa Development and Investment Corporation: 2: Oil & Gas Ghana: Ghana Petroleum Funds / Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund: 2: Oil & Gas Israel [60] Israeli Citizens' Fund: 1.83: Gas & Minerals Panama: Fondo ...