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Investment policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

This Special Issue of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) Investment Policy Monitor (IPM) analyses what the bleak forecast means for investment policymaking and provides an updated overview of specific investment policy measures that countries have undertaken since the release of UNCTAD’s latest regular IPM in early April 2020.

Topic: COVID-19, Financial instruments for business, Government and policy, Investment and export promotion

Sector: Other

Geographic Focus: International

Published by: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

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