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The Investment Compact for South East Europe is a leading programme designed to improve the investment climate and to encourage private sector development in South East Europe. [more... ]
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from 03-Jul-2008 to 04-Jul-2008
Held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 03-04 July 2008, the 2nd Meeting of the SEE Investment Committee Working Group on Human Capital saw participants discuss the industry dynamics and competitiveness in the Western Balkans of the automotive components, business process outsourcing, information and communication technology, and textile and garment sectors. Participants also reviewed solutions to reduce policy barriers hindering further growth in these sectors and short to medium responses to perceived sector specific skills gaps.
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07-Jul-2008
The Investment Compact supported Brussels-based think tank Friends of Europe in organising its ninth annual summit on the Balkans on 24 June 2008. The summit brought together senior politicians and policymakers and representatives from international organisations, civil society and the private sector, to discuss the health of the EU’s Balkan enlargement strategy and the EU's influence on Balkan politics. An economic roundtable saw participants debate the strength of entrepreneurial culture in the region and the pace of economic development.
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28-May-2008
Meeting in Paris on 23 May, Investment Compact and Regional Cooperation Council representatives launched a partnership on boosting South East Europe's business climate. Both partners and governments of the region agreed to introduce an integrated approach to reform that will involve evaluations of business climate policy and agreement on priorities and capacity building to improve competitiveness in the region.
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on 23-May-2008
The 3rd Meeting of the South East Europe Investment Committee took place in Paris on 23 May 2008. Participants discussed future collaboration between the Regional Cooperation Council and the Investment Compact and reviewed Investment Compact activities since the 2nd Committee Meeting, including on the IRI 2009 evaluation, the SME Policy Index 2009 evaluation, the drafting by the Working Groups of 'How-to' reform guidelines, and the completion of Phase I of the project on 'Sector Specific Sources of Competitiveness in the Western Balkans'.
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16-Apr-2008
The OECD has launched a second evaluation of the implementation in the Western Balkans of the European Charter for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. This evaluation will focus on innovation and the support provided to high-growth and innovative SMEs. The results will be presented in 2009 with the publication of the SME Policy Index 2009 report.
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from 05-May-2008 to 06-May-2008
The Investment Compact organised the 11th Regional Meeting of the National Coordinators of the European Charter for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and, in parallel, a workshop on innovation in SMEs. Both events took place in Przno, Montenegro, on 05-06 May, and were organised in co-operation with the Central European Initiative and the European Commission's DG Enterprise and Industry.
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on 07-May-2008
The Investment Compact and the World Bank organised a workshop on investment opportunities in the Western Balkans for Italian businesses. The event took place in Milan on 07 May and brough together Italian companies and investment promotion agencies from the Western Balkans. This event falls within the scope of the Investment Compact/World Bank project on 'Strenghtening Sector Specific Sources of Competitiveness in the Western Balkans' and was organised in co-operation with the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade.
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from 09-Apr-2008 to 10-Apr-2008
Held in Prague, Czech Republic, on 09-10 April 2008, the 2nd meeting of the SEE Investment Committee Working Group on Investment Promotion saw participants discuss the design and implementation of linkage programmes and the sustained benefits these programmes can generate for both foreign investors and local small and medim-sized enterprises. The discussions benefited from presentations of regional good practices and a review of experiences from OECD members.
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from 02-Apr-2008 to 03-Apr-2008
Held in Vienna, Austria, on 02-03 April 2008, the 2nd meeting of the SEE Investment Committee Working Group on Regulatory Reform saw participants discuss problems encountered during the enactment process of business legislation reforms in parliament. Participants also identified areas for improvement, potential solutions and regional good practices, and reviewed the different methodologies for measuring business regulation.
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20-Mar-2008
In the main article of its Spring 2008 issue, see.market magazine looks at the work of the Investment Compact and describes it as "one of the international bodies operating in the region with the clearest mandates specific to regional economic development." In a separate piece, Erhard Busek, Special Co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, describes the Investment Compact as an "initiative that really complements CEFTA...and that provides an excellent forum for co-operation on improving the region's attractiveness to foreign investors".
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03-Dec-2007
In an open-editorial written for the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, Erhard Busek, Special Co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, highlights the major role the Investment Compact-managed South East Europe Investment Committee plays in the design and implementation of reforms to promote investment in SEE.
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on 12-Nov-2007
The 2nd Meeting of the South East Europe Investment Committee was held in Paris on 12 November 2007. Participants discussed Investment Compact activities since the 1st Committee Meeting, the Committee's co-operation with the new Regional Co-operation Council, the preliminary results of Committee's Working Groups, the preliminary results of the TIPA Project, proposals for the second wave of Investment Reform Index and SME Policy Index evaluations, and the forthcoming Investment Compact 6th Ministerial Conference.
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SME Policy Index 2007
Report on the Implementation of the European Charter for Small Enterprises in the Western Balkans
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Investment Reform Index 2006
Investment Compact for South East Europe
