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

The low costs of finance facilitated global investment, thereby contributing to the acceleration of global growth in 2004.

We are strengthening the export sector, promoting investments to create jobs and speeding up rural economic development.

Concurrently, greater investment in infrastructure is also necessary to achieve higher rates of growth.

To the extent that an IPA adds value to the start up process, by speeding the general paperwork, investors are frequently receptive to paying for the facilitation service.

The rapid rise of Chinese FDI, particularly in resource extraction, is noteworthy.

To facilitate the process, an IPA may assist an investor in satisfying the investment criteria and thereafter coordinate the grant of the necessary permits and approvals by the various other government agencies concerned.

The United States was also greatly encouraged by the rapid increase in private investment flows to developing countries.

Properly targeted public investment can do much to boost economic performance, generating aggregate demand quickly, fueling productivity growth by improving human capital, encouraging technological innovation, and spurring private sector investment by increasing returns. Though public investment cannot fix a large demand shortfall overnight, it can accelerate the recovery and establish more sustainable growth patterns.

Since the sub Saharan economies depend heavily on imports for capital goods, a faster rate of investment will give rise to an associated rise in imports of such goods.

Uncertainties about the economy are likely to insert an element of caution into companies investment decisions. In short, it is more likely that moderating investment will exacerbate the consumer slowdown than that an acceleration of investment will offset it.

For a speedy and transparent approval system, the automatic clearance route was put in place for a specified investment limit.

29. Liberalization of trade and investment has been the hallmark of globalization for the past decades, generating accelerated economic growth.

Its priority objective now was to accelerate structural adjustment of the economy, which required a more active investment policy.

In 2017, fixed asset investment in China s education sector exceeded RMB1 trillion, and growth rate was 20.2 . The absolute quantity exceeded investment in the mining industry for the first time.

Both BITs and double taxation treaties registered rapid growth rates during the period of 1995 2001 (which, however, have slowed down since then).

Development assistance, debt relief and foreign direct investment continued to have conditions attached to them, including quick win initiatives.

It was a period of dramatic expansion of Indian OFDI activities.

Cumulative growth rate of fixed asset investment in December is forecast to be at 7.2 , unchanged from the previous month, but lower than that a year ago.

More flexible mechanisms, such as large scale thematic funding for girls' education, are also helping in the acceleration effort.

Both require accelerated technology development, supportive policies, improved markets and investment.

A state of the art system will allow the Investment Management Service to rapidly and accurately handle complex investment data and analyse the portfolio risk and its performance.

React more promptly to requests for the preparation of national and international monitoring reports.

The task therefore was not only to mobilize resources to speed progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, but also to formulate strategies to ensure predictable flows of resources over the long term.

Discussions had been held on issues such as a possible multilateral framework on investment and its development dimension, export processing zones, targeting investors, locational decisions of investors, outward investment promotion measures and investment incentives.

An automated solution will be implemented to achieve effective monitoring of investment performance and risks undertaken and the prompt identification of the Fund's investment income and assets.

(Millions of Singapore dollars percentage of locally controlled companies in parentheses)

The rapid rise of China as a source of OFDI has been noteworthy.

However, some wealthier developing countries, notably Chile, did achieve a faster pace of investment and growth based on their natural resource endowments.

Botswana and Mauritius stand out in this regard. Recently, surges of FDI into the extractive sector in some African countries have spurred growth recoveries and have been welcomed as a potential source of increased employment, government revenues and foreign exchange and as a catalyst for a more diversified industrialization path.

The Chairman will continue to lead the mobilization drive.

Invest, invest, invest.

A strong global partnership was needed in order to reverse negative trends, accelerate growth and sustainable development, reform national policies, and achieve greater infrastructural and social investment.

The growing trend towards South South investment flows would also lead to an increase in South South investment disputes.

Instead, he suggests reforming the third by tightening allowances for accelerated depreciation (as several other developed countries have done) in order to offset some of the revenue losses. But reducing the overall corporate rate would increase after tax returns on past investments, while limiting accelerated depreciation would lower after tax returns on new investments.

With respect to finance for investment into food processing, typical minimum investment costs for a medium sized processing plant would normally be in the range of US 5 million.

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

Improving the investment climate in each of the five States and establishing conditions for increasing investments in economic projects in their territories.

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

Moreover, there ought to be more coordination between national investment policies and IIA negotiations.

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

Investments by economic enterprises, in particular, rose by 38 per cent. Bulgaria 1995 , p. 77.

While trade had grown rapidly, FDI had also grown rapidly since the early 1980s in fact, more rapidly than trade and domestic production.

(d) In view of the size and diversification of the investment portfolio, the Investment Management Service should increase the number of investment managers or review the possibility of hiring additional discretionary investment advisers (AS2001 95 1 14)

Those provisions were very practical, relevant and urgent for a world economy characterized by growing international trade and increasing internationalization of investments.