MIGA Announces New Conent Partner for FDI Xchange
MIGA Announces New Conent Partner for FDI Xchange:
World Markets Research Centre to provide emerging market analysis
WASHINGTON, DC, June 5, 2002 — The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), a member of the World Bank Group, said today that World Markets Research Centre (WMRC) has agreed to distribute selected country and sector research reports through the FDI Xchange, MIGA's email service featuring investment information on developing countries and economies in transition.
FDI Xchange is a web- and email-based service that provides investors, advisors, and financial institutions with customized investment information in a single, free package. Periodic email updates — tailored to match the user's country, topic, and sectoral interests — contain timely business information from emerging markets worldwide. Users can also access a web-based archive of information. MIGA provides this free service as part of its mandate to facilitate foreign direct investment into its developing member countries.
London-based WMRC has a portfolio of online risk assessment and business intelligence services covering 186 countries. Through FDI Xchange, WMRC will provide free access to a selection of its reports and analysis, relating to political, economic, operational, legal and tax issues - highlighting investment opportunities and investment conditions in emerging markets.
Guy Dunn, WMRC's publishing director, says: "We are pleased to be collaborating with MIGA. WMRC provides unique business intelligence tools for FDI investors. MIGA and its FDI Xchange service constitute a great channel to distribute such content to a relevant audience. This agreement will enable even more people to access our risk assessment and analytical data."
MIGA's content partners include a range of government and private sector organizations involved in foreign direct investment. These partners disseminate a variety of current investment information resources, including industry sector analysis, market research, information on new investment incentives and changes in the legal environment for foreign investment — as well as specific investment opportunities arising from privatization and government initiatives.
"FDI Xchange addresses one of the major challenges to attracting investment into the developing world, which is getting the right information into the right hands," says John Wille, who manages FDI Xchange and MIGA's other online investment information services.
MIGA also operates the Investment Promotion Network, a portal website for the international investment community, and PrivatizationLink, which provides information on upcoming privatization sales in developing countries, along with related legal and procedural information. These online services, established in the mid-1990s, currently catalog over 11,000 investment information resources from the World Bank Group, International Monetary Fund, and more than 600 other public and private sources.
For information
On MIGA, contact:
Angela Gentile, agentile@worldbank.org, t. 202.473.3509
On WMRC, contact:
Michelle Wilkinson-Rowe, m.wilkinsonrowe@wmrc.com,
t. 44.(0)20.7452.5183