  25 June - "Companies should implement corporate governance principles if they want to obtain external finance from the stock exchange, the capital market or the banks," said H.E. Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin, Minister of Investment for the Arab Republic of Egypt. Dr. Mohieldin was speaking at an event organized by the Egyptian Institute of Directors in cooperation with UNCTAD.
 03 March - Following more than three years of research and consultations with a broad range of experts and stakeholders, UNCTAD has just released the new publication "Guidance on Corporate Responsibility Indicators in Annual Reports". The English version is now available for free download on the UNCTAD website.
 12 February - "Transparency and disclosure is the key for evaluating emerging market companies," said a representative of Standard & Poor´s during a recent public-private sector dialogue. Standard & Poor´s was in Geneva to present its new environmental, social and corporate governance index of Indian companies.
 18 December - On 5 December, 2007 the Second Committee of the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted the Resolution "Towards Global Partnerships" recognizing the importance of initiatives like UNCTAD´s Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (ISAR) toward the achievement of internationally agreed development goals.
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ISAR assists developing countries and economies in transition to implement best practices in corporate transparency and accounting in order to facilitate investment flows and economic development. ISAR achieves this through an integrated process of research, intergovernmental consensus building, information dissemination and technical cooperation. ISAR has a number of areas of work, including: 
