Who will provide capital for the venture?

Financing water related investments

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

Fourth, an IPA may offer a number of convenience services to investors after the investment has been approved.

To promote research on HIV AIDS.

China is providing investment insurance and tax breaks to companies that invest abroad.

(b) Financial incentives provide finance for new investment or to defray capital or operation costs.

(d) Alternative investments offer the opportunity for an enhanced risk return profile for a pension investment portfolio.

The amount of resources provided to developing country Parties, including financing for technical assistance and investment projects

(b) How can home country programmes for disseminating information and support services to their investors be improved?

Governments could encourage investors by providing adequate information on investment opportunities.

In addition to finance, FDI can support domestic enterprise through technology transfer and providing market access.

Money laundering provides criminals and organized criminal groups with both cash flow and investment capital.

The backbone of making investment decisions for global holders of capital.

(c) When countries are at the same level of development, and one country offers incentives and another does not, foreign investors could be influenced in their locational choices between countries.

The EXIM Bank provides credits to overseas investments through the Overseas Investment Facility, and an Overseas Investment Insurance scheme is run by the Malaysia Export Credit Insurance Berhad to cover political risks.

The work of OIAs and IPAs is being underpinned by South South international cooperation.

6. Many Governments regard offering incentives to foreign investors as an important policy tool to promote investments.

They may provide capital in the form of debt or equity participation via investment funds.

International donors and investors have withheld their aid or investments pending the introduction of legal and economic reforms.

36. With regard to the promotion of inward FDI, countries needed to elaborate a promotion strategy targeting investors and to identify the comparative advantages they could offer the latter, as well as impediments to investment.

To provide care for persons living with HIV.

In 1994 this fund financed 100 fishing projects in an amount of 0.785 million dinars.

Following work completed in 2003 to provide Botswana with a draft foreign investment law and an overall investment promotion strategy, UNCTAD is currently providing assistance in the design and implementation of an investor targeting strategy for the garments sector.

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.

Some participants mentioned the importance of modernizing Algeria's investment environment and making it more accessible to English speaking investors.

Technical assistance consists primarily of partial support for feasibility studies and also some start up support, particularly for smaller or less experienced investors.

Finally, and more generally, care has to be taken that incentives are offered on the basis of host country needs, and not simply to match incentives offered by other countries.

(1)Having no available financial resources to continuously provide funds to the financial asset investment so as to hold the financial asset investment until its maturity

It was also stated by some that bilateral investment treaties were relatively unknown among investors (as opposed to providers of finance and insurance), although investors are concerned about the issues that bilateral investment treaties address.

It was also stated by some that bilateral investment treaties were relatively unknown among investors (as opposed to providers of finance and insurance), although investors are concerned about the issues that bilateral investment treaties address.

Such councils would provide a direct channel for communication between potential investors and policymakers.

It could transfer not only financial resources but also knowledge and technology, provide access to new markets and supply, and stimulate the upgrading of the enterprise sector.

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.

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

This will require additional resources to finance investments, in concert with increased access to export markets.

For example, the Government of China is promoting outward FDI by providing loans on preferential terms, tax rebates and investment insurance.

The demand side measures focused on the removal of a number of specific barriers to investment, as well as on the improvement of the information provided to investors.

Assistance to smaller firms with little experience in investment projects abroad and with limited financial means is particularly important, especially in the first stages of the investment process.

Investing in the capacity of local government to provide universal basic services is investing in healthier women and families.

He requested UNCTAD s assistance in creating the capability to establish an investor tracking system in Kenya s investment promotion agency.

Activities include country studies on the impact of foreign investment and foreign affiliates on industrial restructuring and development and regional inputs to the preparation and dissemination of the World Investment Report, the World Investment Directory, and the Investment Policy Reviews.

Financial Incentives, Promoting Investment and Private Sector Partnership

Governments offer incentives to attract FDI, to steer it into favoured industries or regions, or to influence its character, for example, when technology intensive investment is being sought.

In order to obtain commercial loans or to have access to other sources of funds to meet the capital requirements of the project, project sponsors and individual investors have to offer priority payment to the lenders and other capital providers, thus accepting that their own investment will only be paid after payment of those other capital providers.