Annex 2 Preliminary list of UNCDF investments in LDCs (2005 2010)

This policy has led to the inclusion of private cultural investment among the priority investment sectors (development support sectors), which enjoy many fiscal and financial advantages under the new Single Investment Code (tax exemptions, grants, access to bank credit ...).

Of the several IPA functions, investment services and facilitation are the most important.

They invest resources where they can make the most difference.

At the same time, projects sponsors will hold the largest share in the project s profit, once the initial investment is paid.

For China, the biggest prize is a bilateral investment treaty (BIT). In practical terms, a US China BIT would make it easier for Chinese entities to invest and operate in the US and increase American firms access to Chinese markets.

Putting it in the crassest possible terms, the investment reaps huge returns.

2. Make field inspection of projects related to the significant investment migration . By late September, more than 20 investment projects have been inspected

1.Is the list of issues typically covered in a BIT complete in the sense of covering all the most important elements in investment relations from the perspective of development?

Currently, foreign direct investment has been the largest source of private flows.

The biggest contributor to that performance was United States investments, which comprise the majority of the Fund apos s real estate portfolio.

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The rest of Latvia's territory outside cities and towns is considered to be a rural land.

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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.

Cooperation has been extended to investment guides for LDCs, and investment policy reviews have been conducted jointly.

These reviews assess the overall regulatory regime and its efficiency in attracting investment and maximizing the benefits of such investment.

A study had revealed that for every currency unit invested by ESA, more than three currency units were generated in indirect economic activities.

24. Cooperation between UNU and UNEP led to the successful bid for inclusion of the United Nations University project on People, land management and environmental change (UNU PLEC) into the Global Environment Facility (GEF) portfolio.

The most notable new legislation had included a law on intellectual property rights, a capital investment law that allowed foreign investors up to 100 per cent ownership, and laws enabling foreign banks to operate in Kuwait.

We believe that investment in human resources is an important element of aid to the continent.

South Africa is the single largest source of OFDI from Africa.

It had signed some 20 bilateral investment treaties and was party to an increasing number of regional agreements dealing with investment.

Service Module 2 Investment and technology promotion

The number of OFDI approvals, as well as the size of OFDI flows, has increased significantly in the past decade.

The share of re invested earnings emerged as the most important component of OFDI flows, accounting for about 45 per cent 50 per cent of the total flows during the

Countries with the largest FDI outflows are among those with the highest number of bilateral investment treaties, for example, India, Malaysia and Singapore.

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.

Domestic investment projects in East Timor which were approved by the Government in 1996 comprise 12 projects with a total investment value of Rp. 270,715 billion or about US 142 million.

Agenda item 3 Recent developments in foreign direct investment trends and policies

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 provided the single greatest legislative victory in the African American struggle for political equality and democratic voice.

For instance, OFDI approvals by SMEs accounted for 26 per cent cases of manufacturing activities and 41 per cent cases in the software industry.

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.

Some laws require a minimum rate of equity investment, as a percentage of the total investment cost, or establish a ceiling for the availability of public funds to the project.

Three recent trends should be noted the protection of investment, the liberalization of investment frameworks and the promotion of investment.

It is also the world's leading source of investment. The amount of 125 billion invested abroad in 2002 increased to 152 billion in 2003.

(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.

(c) Maximizing the leverage of UNCDF models for scaling up and policy impact, wherein lies the potential for large scale impact of UNCDF support on the MDGs

For the profit distributed by overseas investors from domestic enterprises in China used for the scope of application of no withholding income tax policy for domestic direct investment, the foreign investment encouraged projects should be extended to all non prohibited foreign investment projects and fields.

That leaves the final category, social investing, which is really, anyway, the biggest of them all, represented here by Xigi.net.

Developing Asia Pacific countries have been the largest and fastest growing outward investors the total stock of outward foreign direct investment through 2003 amounted to 635 billion, which was three quarters of total outward foreign direct investment from all developing economies.

Establishment of a special unit to investigate fraudulent investments.

The Investment Management Service share would be offset against investment income, as is currently done for all activities under the budget component quot Investment costs quot .

They basically came up with a list where they said there were bad projects basically, projects where if you invest a dollar, you get less than a dollar back.

i.The held to maturity investment is sold due to the serious worsening of the credit situation of the investee