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The United Nations (UNCTAD) has declared Invest India as a winner of the Investment Promotion Award 2020.

The award ceremony took place on 7th December 2020 at UNCTAD Headquarters in Geneva. This United Nations Investment Promotion Award is the highest-level award for investment promotion agencies. 

The pandemic could push as many as 32 million people in the world's least developed countries into extreme poverty, a new UN report has said. Without international action, global development goals will be missed.

Ministers and senior policymakers across Asia and the Pacific are set to gather in Bangkok this week to focus on population dynamics at a crucial time for the region. Their goal is to keep people and rights at the heart of the region's push for sustainable development.

The cost to tourism alone from the Russian crisis has been calculated at $5 billion. With trucks being kept waiting at the border and with fruits and vegetables returned, the cost of the crisis for the first six months of 2016 was calculated by some economists at $7.2 billion. 

In this case, Turkey needs to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) now more than any other time.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Turkey was $12.1 billion in 2014, making the country the 22nd most popular spot for investors in the world, while the country is expected take in another $12 billion this year, said Ahmet Erdem, head of the International Investors Association (YASED), in a joint meeting with the United Nation's Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on June 24. 

One of the most important United Nations meetings on humanitarian action is set to be held in Istanbul in May next year under the title of ?World Humanitarian Summit,? marking a first of its kind.

Turkey will strive to implement a heavy agenda aimed at narrowing the disparity between the most and least developed countries during its G-20 presidency, its prime minister vowed ahead of this weekend’s G-20 leaders’ summit hosted by outgoing president Australia in Brisbane.