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Panama allocates considerable resources to education, and the progress made is largely a result of this.

CA And now you're a big investor in that and bringing that to market?

These large scale investments may account of a significant portion of OFDI from Singapore to Hong Kong (China).

The task of coordinating such a group is large and requires the investment of appropriate human and financial resources.

A normal investment bank is not a deposit bank, it's an investment bank it has 15 to 20 times.

For larger plants it could easily be well in excess of this figure.

A major opportunity exists to leverage the investments already made, and to minimize those that will continue to be made.

An expert stated that Republic of Korea SMEs account for a significant percentage of OFDI by Korean firms. Most of their investments are in neighbouring countries.

My friend has a heavy investment in this matter.

And why this whole thing makes sense.

One significant practical obstacle to the execution of privately financed infrastructure projects was the considerable length of time invested in negotiations between the public authorities of the host country and potential investors.

The effects of the embargo relating to investment and cooperative ventures have been substantial.

Many ministers underscored the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) as a source of productive investment and economic growth in developing countries.

The methodology is quite demanding in terms of quantitative work and would require an important investment in human resources.

As one speaker put it, this required significant resources, but had proven to be a great investment.

A significant share of this FDI was in offshore financial centres.

You have to realize that the investments we do in progress are long term investments.

Answers to such questions provide feedback on the effectiveness of investment policies and procedures, and where their functioning can be improved to reach best practices. Regional investors are another important category, particularly in Asia and Latin America where intra regional flows account for a significant and growing share of FDI.

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The fact that in many developing countries a large part of landed property is not formally registered thus creates an obstacle to financing business initiative.

FDI represents a highly significant level of financial flows from developed to developing countries.

I got an admiral, two governors some of them big investmenthouse boys and a cabinet minister.

In addition, individual investments can lead to sequential investments by the same investor or associated investment by other firms thus creating agglomeration effects.

Software SMEs contributed significantly to OFDI stock (47 per cent), whereas manufacturing OFDI by SMEs was small (table 6).

Moreover, in terms of distribution, a relatively large percentage of the very small foreign direct investment in Africa had been absorbed by a handful of countries.

Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us.

While an investor might bear a market imposed reduction in the value of his investment in an emerging market, which often accounted for a small proportion of his portfolio, a massive capital outflow might cause the financial collapse of an economy.

Private investment is important, too. But the new investment provisions embedded in the trade agreements that the Obama administration is negotiating across both oceans imply that accompanying any such foreign direct investment comes a marked reduction in governments abilities to regulate the environment, health, working conditions, and even the economy.

Investment costs are significant for the establishment of viable processing plants and for undertaking marketing efforts.

A projector like this must cost.

Egypt is launching a first large industrial zone 2.8 billion investment.

A significant portion of foreign direct investment should be directed to the LDCs, and the positive contribution of such investment to their development should be ensured.

38. Third, a country s vulnerability was more likely to be reduced by investments that fostered broad based development than by investments in a few capital based projects and sectors.

Many investors said that this punishment would be catastrophic.

Can you imagine? Well, you should invest in my company because it's really good.

This is important in terms both of protecting incomes and boosting the investment process, as well as for economic activities on the whole.

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One of the reasons for this is that in most Latin American and Caribbean countries, FDI policies focus on attracting large quantities of FDI and do not pay much attention to the nature of FDI.

From 1994 onwards, financial institutions such as banks, finance and insurance companies were included.

That improvement includes a substantial contribution by investment in job creation, which will have accounted for 25.4 per cent of total investment, compared to 23.5 per cent during the Seventh Plan.

Undertaking massive investment now and deciding only later how to finance it looks irresponsible and so it is. But not acting at all would be even more irresponsible.

Such practices may have significant effects on both trade and investment and require further examination.

It is rare to get an exogenous investment in girls' education.

The motivations of OFDI changed radically during the SW.