  6 October - The Vice-President of Sierra Leone, in a meeting with UNCTAD Secretary-General Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi, expressed his country´s appreciation for UNCTAD´s technical assistance and endorsed the main recommendations of the forthcoming Investment Policy Review.
  11 Aug 09 - UNCTAD and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) have presented the President of Nigeria, Umaru Yar´Adua, with a 15-point action plan -- called a Blue Book on Best Practice in Investment Promotion and Facilitation -- to help the country improve its performance in attracting foreign investment.
  22 June 09 - Burkina Faso should accelerate legal and institutional reforms to further tap the developmental benefits of foreign direct investment (FDI), an UNCTAD Investment Policy Review (IPR) of the country recommends.
  05 May 09 - The Dominican Republic should continue its already effective efforts to use foreign investment to diversify its economy, and Nigeria should strive to attract more investment outside its oil sector, new UNCTAD studies say.
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