Better investment policies are the key to promote investment in the country, said Ms. Rabyia Javeri Agha, Secretary Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) while addressing the inaugural session of the training workshop on 09 September on “Trade and Investment” organized at Karachi under the European Union funded TRTA II programme. She mentioned that trade and investment are two sides of the same economic coin and the countries that are integrated in the global supply and investment chain would be the driver of future economic growth. She emphasized that Pakistan needed to become one of those nations by building its capacity and becoming a reliable supplier of goods and services. She further informed the audience that Pakistan has executed Bilateral Investment Treaties with 47 countries and 52 agreements for avoidance of double the EU funded TRTA II programme is implemented by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in association with the International Trade Centre (ITC) and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The training course is jointly conducted by ITC and PITAD in collaboration with TDAP Karachi. The program has three main components where Component 1 is about trade policy capacity building. The training is delivered by Professor Julien Chaisse from the University of Hong Kong.
