The volume of FDI was inadequate.

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These flows, mainly foreign direct investment, are, however, concentrated in a few large developing countries, while flows to other regions have been in steady decline.

Privatizations had been the main engine behind the FDI flows, though the dependence upon too few investing countries had not permitted proper differentiation.

This share, however, remained concentrated in a handful of countries, with many others attracting only small amounts.

Regarding financial flows, in 1995 about 80 per cent of foreign direct investment had gone to only a handful of developing countries.

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The latest World Investment Report referred to the level of investment by pharmaceutical TNCs in Brazil but showed how only a few of these firms actually invested in research and development in the country.

This share, however, remained concentrated in a handful of countries, with many others attracting only small amounts.

(c) Information materials on the voting process should be made widely available, including in minority languages.

If inward FDI stock data from recipient countries are used, the value of South South FDI is higher, at least about 700 billion.

Although worldwide FDI flows have expanded, including flows to developing regions, much of it is concentrated in a small number of countries.

Returns the number of periods of an investment.

With a few exceptions, the majority of countries on the African continent had been marginalized as regards FDI inflows.

(b) Short term investments (number of actions)

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The policy sought to promote OFDI only in the form of joint ventures (JVs) with minority Indian ownership participation.

Last year, Brazil's green investment (in the investment model of building factories abroad) was 17.9 billion, a year on year fall of 2.1 .

This figure assumes that China's restraint policies succeed in reducing investment in new steel producing capacity.

Most AIJ under the pilot phase are relatively small in terms of investment and their individual contribution to GHG abatement is limited.

(f) Under paragraph 20 (i), on investment issues World Investment Report, it is proposed to reduce the allocation by half (reduction of 120,000)

The main objective of most capital exporting countries is to obtain legal protection for investment under international law and thus reduce as much as possible the non commercial risks facing foreign investors in host countries.

(8) As regards long term equity investment, it is required to separately list the beginning balance, ending balance and current and accumulative amounts of unrecognized investment losses of each invested entity.

In the asset management industry, there have traditionally been two types of investment strategies passive and active. The passive approach includes investment in indices that track specific benchmarks, say, the S P 500 for the United States or an index of advanced economies or emerging market equities.

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.

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.

In other cases, for example private investments by sector, very little data could be identified.

The range of incentives to FDI, and the number of countries that offer incentives, have increased considerably in the past decade.

Redevelopment.

Item Number of countries that introduced changes in their investment regimes

Greenfield investments are less common, since these generally imply much larger risks and financial commitments for the investing enterprise.

But how much you want to invest is going to depend on how much longer you expect to live in the future, even if you don't make those investments.

22. Most low income economies notably those in sub Saharan Africa receive few of these funds.

As for the number of new investors, there were about 310,000 new investors each week in July, which still stayed at a low level.

IPMT calculates the amount of a payment of an annuity going towards interest.

PPMT calculates the amount of a payment of an annuity going towards principal.

In addition, several legal and administrative obstacles to foreign investors still existed, inhibiting the country's FDI potential.

The core resources available have declined more sharply than total resources.

Source UNCTAD, database on BITs.

At the same time, FDI remained narrowly distributed in a few developing countries most countries that needed inflows of foreign capital and know how did not have the capacity to attract FDI, and the international community was increasingly reluctant to assist their development efforts.

Moreover, there would be few holdouts that refuse to participate in the exchange. Previous experience suggests that most hold to maturity investors would accept a par bond, while most mark to market investors would accept a discount bond with a higher coupon (that is, a bond with a lower face value) an alternative that could be offered (and has been in the past) to such investors.

(b) Increase research and development investment for low waste and cleaner technologies

Public investment sustained a drop of 19.5 between 1989 and 1990.

Major shareholders such as institutional investors should not have privileged access to information that is unavailable to minority shareholders.