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

The IIA Compendium in electronic format was also launched on the IIA website.

INVESTMENT PROMOTION AND SUGGESTED MEASURES TO FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES

Capital importing countries conclude BITs in an effort to attract foreign investment in the interest of development, by protecting it and thereby demonstrating their commitment to providing a favourable investment climate.

3. Investment promotion and suggested measures to further development objectives

It also contributed to the Investment and Technology Promotion Office in Seoul to enable it to promote direct foreign investment and technology diffusion.

5.Do BITs contribute to changes in national legislation?

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

Wishing to promote investments in human development over the entire lifespan and in preserving and supporting age integrated social institutions,

(4) legality, in order to provide investors and workers with legal certainty

Item 3 Investment promotion and suggested measures to further development objectives

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.

Invest, invest, invest.

3. Investment promotion and suggested measures to further development objectives

Higher rates of economic growth could not be sustained without increased investment, especially in research and development which was crucial to boosting productivity while improving the quality of human capital and technology.

Investment can sustainably drive growth only up to the point when returns decline dramatically. In the case of public sector investment, that means that the present value of the increment to the future GDP path (using a social discount rate) is greater than the investment itself.

Proceeds from this round of funding will be used for R D, talent recruitment, strategic push and industry chain investment layout.

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

We need to provide better focused public investment and improve the quality of external resources if we are to promote trade and investment on more equitable terms.

Peace could best be promoted in the Sudan by investment in economic development.

Improvements in the business environment as well as increased investment outlays especially in the agri business sector also provided an impetus to growth in non metal exports.

The Mining Decree of 1986 is being revised and a new investment law is in the works that will facilitate increased investment in the gold and diamond mining industry.

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And developing nations have a responsibility to govern justly, advance economic liberty and invest in their people.

Evidence shows that investment by TNCs can be an engine of economic growth in host economies.

Indeed, technology transfer is increasingly driven by market forces and international private investors.

In view of the importance that Brazil attached to the activities carried out under the Investment Policy Review Programme, and the interest shown in the Investment Policy Review of Brazil, he requested that its presentation be postponed until the second half of 2005. This would allow further inter ministerial consultations to be held and thus enhance Brazil's contribution to the discussions of the Review.

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In the US, public investment spending has been slashed. Neither the federal government nor the states have political mandates, funding strategies, or long term plans to catalyze investment in the next generation of smart, clean technologies.

As in other regions, OFDI from Africa has been driven by both push and pull factors.

The increasing competitive pressure at home and abroad, and the liberalization of OFDI, played an important role in driving Indian OFDI.

15. The economic embargo undermined the implementation of certain of the Islamic Republic s main projects and some foreign investors revised and postponed their economic investment in the country.

11. Environmental investments total investments

Just as investment in physical capital is necessary to generate economic growth, so too investment in human resources must be recognized not merely as a by product of economic growth but as a driving force for development.

In addition, new business techniques have facilitated foreign participation with a minimum of actual investment.

In October 2004, the Government of South Africa took further steps to facilitate outward FDI by abolishing exchange control limits on such flows.

It is expected that the Meeting will further the exchange of best practices among host country investment promotion institutions, and also encourage greater cooperation among inward and outward investment promotion programmes.

Investment agreements which signal that investment is valued and that all investors will be treated fairly also promote investment.

Can IPAs screen investment and also facilitate it?

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The international community was encouraged to continue its support to the processes of reconstruction, social investment, stabilization and development.

i) to devote resources to moving forward with those reform initiatives considered most crucial to enhancing the effectiveness of the Organization and

The Tender Committee unduly delayed bid openings.

The third, and perhaps most important, factor underpinning recent changes in corporate governance has been the sharp rise in cross border investing. Sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, global investment banks, and hedge funds do not invest only in their own backyard.

Private investment has its role to play to drive the vigorous growth necessary for economic momentum in the African continent.