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United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was established in 1964 as a permanent intergovernmental body. It is the principal organ of the United Nations General Assembly dealing with trade, investment, and development issues. The organization's goals are to "maximize the trade, investment and development opportunities of developing countries and assist them in their efforts to integrate into the world economy on an equitable basis."

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- The world's top 100 non-financial TNCs, ranked by foreign assets, 2017
  
  April 2018
  
  Source: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
  
  Uploaded by: Knoema
  
  Accessed On: 20 September, 2018
  
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  Source: UNCTAD. Preliminary results based on data from the companies' financial reporting; corresponds to the financial year from 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2018. TNI, the Transnationality Index, is calculated as the average of the following three ratios: foreign assets to total assets, foreign sales to total sales and foreign employment to total employment. Industry classification for companies follows the United States Standard Industrial Classification as used by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In a number of cases foreign employment data were calculated by applying the share of foreign employment in total employment of the previous year to total employment of 2017.

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

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