And to get my investment back, I need an attraction. A real attraction.

Sri Lanka had the potential to attract more FDI and to increase the benefits from it.

The efforts to attract FDI are, more often than not, marred by the conspicuous absence of a vibrant domestic investment base in developing countries.

We have policies and laws that are attractive to private investment including and especially private foreign investment.

The Sudan had substantial resources that should be attractive to investors and was anxious to cooperate in promoting the welfare of all peoples.

Research by financial experts suggested that it was possible to develop an investment instrument out of a portfolio of domestic currency assets that could be attractive to foreign investors.

And this is a weighty argument in favour of a more active work to attract foreign investments, with all the necessary conditions being safeguarded by law.

This weak investment and diversification dynamic has had a direct bearing on the kind of FDI attracted to the region, as well as its impact.

Weak infrastructure is an impediment to investment in manufacturing but it can also be an attractive opportunity for the international infrastructure industry.

An investment climate providing legal protections for investors could help to attract technology based investments.

That will enhance Africa's attractiveness to foreign direct investment.

This new partnership has been built on confidence in Central Asia s ability to offer attractive trade and investment opportunities for investors.

Efforts could also be made to develop physical and economic infrastructure and human capital in order to attract and absorb foreign investment flows.

I. PROMOTION OF INWARD FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT

If sustainable forest management is to compete successfully for resources, strong domestic strategic decisions and policy measures are needed to create an attractive investment environment.

But export oriented FDI is also unlikely to find this an attractive setting, given that low wages are only one element of cost competitiveness.

Similarly, it is usually the poor and deprived areas within countries that are not attractive to investors.

The private sector believed that the introduction by the Egyptian Government of intellectual property rights and anti trust laws would make the investment environment in Egypt much more attractive.

But there are fundamental reasons to believe that the eurozone s investment rate will remain permanently depressed. The often invoked investment gap is mostly a result of wishful thinking, and the remaining barriers to investment have little to do with a lack of financing.

(a) Local governments are under pressure to attract investment and facilitate industrial development

I have a very attractive policy here.

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With increasing competition for FDIs, it is important to develop an attractive package to match the needs of investors.

The latter have made important efforts to attract FDI as a tool for accelerating development.

This growth is related to investment reforms undertaken in many countries in order to attract foreign investors.

In developing countries, the rationale for investment incentives is to compensate for the failure of host country markets to provide sufficiently attractive rates of return that fully capture the various benefits of FDI.

Regarding investment and technology promotion, the Group recognized the vast potential of such activities for enhancing technical cooperation activities aimed at strengthening national capacities for attracting foreign direct investment through South South cooperation.

This procedure would allow countries wishing to attract investment to be able to address themselves to a single body capable of guiding them in their search for potential investors.

For this purpose, creating an attractive investment climate should be a high and urgent priority.

While the focus of most investment promotion efforts are on attracting FDI, the promotion of outward investment has become more prominent in recent years.

However, only a handful of developing countries were able to attract significant flows of foreign direct investment (FDI), while over 100 developing countries received less than 1 per cent of the world s FDI flows.

Countries can work to improve all of these factors to make themselves more attractive to international investment.

In spite of our efforts to make the investment climate more attractive and to stimulate the economy, it is clear that there will be no real progress until the status issue is resolved.

How effective are they in attracting FDI?

75. Declining ODA had serious implications for African countries, which used much of their meagre resources to service their external debt and which were unable to attract foreign direct investment as investment opportunities were less attractive than elsewhere.

3.Given the various national policy tools available to attract FDI, what are the advantages and disadvantages of using BITs versus other national policy instruments in order to influence investment decisions by transnational corporations?

TNCs were now being wooed for investment.

In order to encourage domestic investment and to attract foreign direct investment, it is essential to have in place a stable, supportive, effective and transparent legal framework.

While the focus of most investment promotion efforts are on attracting FDI, the promotion of outward investment has become more prominent in recent years.

This 18 minutes business, I find quite fascinating.

Speakers analysed the factors that push away investments from the home economy (push factors) and those that pull investors towards host economies (pull factors).

You've got maybe 10 seconds between 10 and 30 seconds, depending on how long the pitch is to get their attention.

America s declining competitiveness as an attractive place to locate production and employment.

2. Attracting private investment in infrastructure

Relatively small quantities of public resources could be used to attract private investment.