ECOWAS Common Investment Policy

The ECOWAS Investment Policy contextualizes the ECOWAS investment climate realities in global best practice viewpoints and provides a guide for reform actions to improve the regional investment climate and its competitiveness. It identifies fourteen policy dimensions (comprising legal and regulatory issues, investment promotion and facilitation, investment entry, investment related trade policy, competition policy, physical infrastructure development, investment dispute resolution, human capital development, financial infrastructure development, public governance, investment related tax policy, spatial area investment policy, responsible business conduct and protection of the environment) on which Member States shall focus reform actions and make collaborative commitments to implement strategies in order to improve the investment climate and make the region more attractive to investment.