G20-T20 Roundtable Discussion on“Global Value Chains for Inclusive Development:
FDI, investment facilitation and linkage creation”

Announcement(This event is open to G20 and T20 participants or by special invitation)
Foreign direct investment (FDI) offers a useful entry point for integration into global value chains (GVCs).
It also offers a host of technology and financial resources that may bring tangible benefits to domestic firms
and industries, thereby increasing their productivity and capability. However, FDI attraction is not without
its challenges amid intensifying competition for foreign investments. Even for countries that successfully
attracted FDI positive development outcomes are not pre-ordained. The roundtable will discuss two major
topics – investment facilitation as well as linkages with foreign investors – to address ideas and options
available to policymakers, which may contribute to evidence-based policymaking at G20 at the broad level.

Information
Time and date: 28 May 2019 (Tuesday) 13:00-16:30
Venue: United Nations University, (1F) Annex Space, Tokyo
Hosts: United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and German Development Institute /Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Registration for the event is mandatory and available HERE

AgendaThe roundtable is planned as a half-day event with two sessions. The first session presents new
considerations in FDI attraction that warrant attention for policymakers and practitioners alike. It highlights
best practices in investment facilitation and promotion, presents some innovative and possibly replicable
programmes from around the world, and outlines key implementation issues that may help investment
promotion agencies (IPAs) enhance their capability to attract and retain FDI. Also, this session looks at thepotential benefits of an international framework on investment facilitation currently under discussion at theWTO. The second session focuses on integration of domestic enterprises, most notably small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs), into the global production networks of multinational firms, which is often difficult
due to scale and capability constraints. The session examines the rationale for SME integration from theperspective of long-term upgrading and the types of policies that are needed to link domestic firms to foreign
investment in a beneficial way over time.

The tentative agenda is as follows:
13:00-13:30

Opening Remarks:
Taikan Oki, Senior Vice Rector, United Nations University
Yuko Yasunaga, Head, UNIDO-ITPO Japan
Keynote speech:
Fetlework Gebregziabher Abrha, Minister, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ethiopia

13:30-14:30

Session 1: FDI Attraction and Facilitation
Moderator: Ferda Gelegen, UNIDO
Presentation: Axel Berger, GDI/DIE
Discussants:- Manjiao Chi, UIBE Beijing- Yuko Yasunaga, UNIDO-ITPO Japan
Comments by participants

14:30-15:00

Coffee Break

15:00-16:15

Session 2: Linking Domestic Firms to Foreign Investors
Moderator: Ferda Gelegen, UNIDO
Presentation: Adnan Seric, UNIDO
Discussants:- Izumi Ohno, JICA Research Institute- Dongsoo Kang, Korea Development Institute- Fukunari Kimura, ERIA and Keio University- Yasuyuki Todo, Waseda University
Comments by participants

16:15-16:30

Wrap-up Discussion and Closing Remarks* Agenda is subject to change.
This roundtable is a T20 Japan associated event.