{"id":359306,"date":"2024-02-26T13:52:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T16:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/brazil-and-121-countries-sign-investment-deal\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T11:33:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T14:33:58","slug":"brazil-and-121-countries-sign-investment-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-and-121-countries-sign-investment-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil and 121 countries sign investment deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"foto-com-creditos\">\n<div class=\"credito-foto\">\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Alongside other 121 countries, Brazil finalized on Sunday (25) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, an investment facilitation agreement intended to simplify operations between the signatories, provide more predictability to investors, and promote a responsible business behavior in international operations. The signing came one day prior to the 13th WTO Ministerial Conference that is taking place on Monday (26) through Thursday (29) in the Arab country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is of great significance to establish global minimum standards for investment transparence, simplification and facilitation, not to mention dispute prevention,\u201d Brazil\u2019s Foreign Trade Secretary Tatiana Prazeres <em>(pictured)<\/em>, who\u2019s representing Brazil\u2019s ministry of development and industry in the conference in Dubai, was quoted as saying in a press release. \u201cAnd this agreement features clauses that require investors to make social and environmental commitments,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>According to ministry, the Agreement on Investment Facilitation for Development (AFID) had been drafted since 2017, with a strong role from Brazil, which has a well-established expertise in the field. According to numbers from industry group CNI, the AFID has the potential to boost the Brazilian GDP by 2.1% within five years, with investments rising by 5.9%. Countries that signed the agreement include Arab Bahrain, Djibouti, Kuwait, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Yemen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translation by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day ahead of the WTO Ministerial Conference in Abu Dhabi, a group of nations inked an agreement simplifying foreign investment. Ten Arab countries signed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":358395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46555,91,106],"tags":[47620,47626,47627,46652,1843,47628],"class_list":{"0":"post-359306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diplomacy","8":"category-economy","9":"category-foreign-affairs","10":"tag-afid","11":"tag-agreement-on-investment","12":"tag-agreement-on-investment-facilitation-for-development","13":"tag-tatiana-prazeres","14":"tag-wto","15":"tag-wto-ministerial-meeting"},"wps_subtitle":"A day ahead of the WTO Ministerial Conference in Abu Dhabi, a group of nations inked an agreement simplifying foreign investment. Ten Arab countries signed.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}