Intra South, East and Southeast Asia Almost two fifths of the FDI stock in Asia is intraregional, with Hong Kong (China), China and Singapore as leading investors in their own region (table 3).

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A number of external and internal barriers to foreign investment were identified.

Intra African investment flows are mainly from South Africa.

In the case of ASEAN, intraregional FDI accounts for close to one fifth of the total FDI.

Regional integration in ASEAN had encouraged intra ASEAN investment, which contributes to South South FDI flows.

Lack of institutional structure and lack of capacity are obstacles to intra African FDI and portfolio investment.

Investment per agent ( )

35. To achieve sustained growth, a major portion of the resources required for investment must come from domestic sources.

A vibrant domestic investment base will emerge only if the private sector is induced to engage in productive activities by encouraging domestic investments.

(c) Audit costs, which cover both internal and external audit costs in both the administrative and investment areas.

Much intra African investment from South Africa is in mining and other natural resources.

The effective mobilization of financial resources to support investment requires the development of domestic financial sectors and institutions.

The participation of private sector investors from the host country is sometimes required by the national law.

Paraguay's legal tax structure recognized the same rights for both foreign and domestic investment, and offered incentives to new investment and reinvestment in a wide range of sectors, including bio fuel and outsourcing.

Investment rate ( GDP)

As for an overseas investment, an enterprise shall conclude a contract thereon in written form so as to clarify the rights and interests it may enjoy from this investment and to carry out financial supervision.

The main thrust of the report was to recommend a new hybrid structure for the Service, in which a combination of internal management and permanent temporary external outsourcing of the management of the Fund's investments would be used.

The government is using a variety of instruments, including financial sector credit discipline, to rein in investment demand. Essentially, the government guarantee associated with financing public sector investment is being withdrawn as it should be.

In the area of finance, policies need both to promote domestic savings and to attract external resources for productive investment.

Investment Performance by Account

In LAC, most outward investment is intra regional.

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

The Council of Ministers also approved on 9 February laws on foreign and domestic investments.

Increased public sector investment could help to spur private sector investment, which is also severely depressed. In the United States, investment barely exceeds pre crisis levels, even though GDP has risen by 10 .

It should also disseminate information on country experiences related to FDI policies and the interaction between foreign and domestic investment.

For example, the Office of Internal Oversight Services suggested that the Investment Management Service review in detail the operational steps related to real estate investments, which will require the opinion of specialists.

Ratio of gross domestic investment to GDP

Assesses the investment performance measurement process and reporting system at the Investment Management Service and the appropriateness of benchmarking and investment performance reporting in conformity with best industry practices determines the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal controls.

OFDI was largely led by the manufacturing sector.

a) Promotion of inward foreign direct investment

Although one new post of Investment Officer has been recommended by the Office of Internal Oversight Services for real estate investments, it has been decided that it would be more beneficial to the management of the Fund to redeploy the current investment officer posts by expanding the responsibilities of each.

As a result, net domestic resources available for investment, as represented by domestic savings less net transfers abroad (or gross national savings), were reduced by that much, thereby adversely affecting the level of domestic investment and increasing the gap between investment and savings.

Our age is defined by this complementarity. Unless the public sector invests, and invests wisely, the private sector will continue to hoard its funds or return them to shareholders in the forms of dividends or buybacks.

Significant investments needed to meet the Millennium Development Goals require appropriate domestic resources including from the private sector

Options include international debt financing, domestic tax revenue and user fees, borrowing in domestic capital markets, and public private partnerships for water related investments.

Investment promotion agencies for inward FDI and OFDI, both in developing and developed countries, could coordinate their efforts.

OFDI from Asian developing economies was contributing to growing South South FDI flows and intra regional investment.

Most high income countries the US, most of Europe, and Japan are failing to invest adequately or wisely toward future best uses. There are two ways to invest domestically or internationally and the world is falling short on both. nbsp

3 Type, amount and internal approving procedure of external investment and guarantee of the securities firm

It has, at the same time, created incentives for national and foreign private investment in the health sector.

In October 1996, as part of UNCTAD apos s internal restructuring, the Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development was created.

The widening gap between national savings and domestic investment affirms the widely held view that inflows of external resources are most critical to achieving accelerated investment and growth.

18. There was a considerable discussion around the notion of the dual system that could result from investment policies which differentiated between the public and the private sector, as well as between the domestic and export sector.