Abstract:
The shuttering of commercial activity in the face of the Corona (Covid-19) pandemic
will have a dramatic effect on the global economy. UNCTAD’s Division on Investment
and Enterprise has been monitoring the impact on investment, as well as its
implications for development.1 In the face of the unprecedented circumstances,
this issue of the Transnational Corporations furnishes a brief overview of this work,
notably from the perspective of foreign direct investment (FDI) and investment
policy. UNCTAD’s World Investment Report (forthcoming, June 2020) will provide an
expanded and in-depth analysis of FDI trends and investment policy developments
that also accounts for the impact of the pandemic
