South East Europe governments can leverage important advantages to attract investment for competitiveness such as: proximity to the EU market of almost 500 million consumers;,a well educated workforce at the secondary level and access to EU structural funds to support integration.

1. Focus on
Investment and
Competitiveness in South
East Europe
April 2017
Co-funded by
the European Union

2. Regional performance in the area of investment
policy and promotion
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OECD SEE Competitiveness Outlook 2016: Investment Policy and Promotion

3. Foreign direct investment and local small and
medium-sized enterprise development
3OECD Global Relations South East Europe
SME Policy Index 2016
Planning and design of SEE policies stimulating SME integration into global value chains

4. Attracting quality investment to South East Europe
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Objective
Challenges
Better
policies
A new approach to investment A selected OECD toolbox
OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises
OECD Responsible Business
Conduct
OECD Due Diligence Guidance
FDI Regulatory Restrictiveness
Index
Indicators on FDI Qualities
Transition from a “more
investment” to a “better
investment” approach
Define and measure
what “quality
investment” is
Put the right policies in
place to:
• Attract better
investment
• Maximise the
impact of
investment
Objective
Measurement
Impact

5. Better Corporate Governance for Better Investment
in South East Europe
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Good corporate governance is a
cornerstone of an attractive
investment climate.
Over the last decades, SEE
economies have made significant
progress in corporate governance,
implementing legal and regulatory
reforms, issuing guidelines and
setting up good governance tiers
on the stock exchanges in the
region.