And to get my investment back, I need an attraction. A real attraction.

We have policies and laws that are attractive to private investment including and especially private foreign investment.

But there are fundamental reasons to believe that the eurozone s investment rate will remain permanently depressed. The often invoked investment gap is mostly a result of wishful thinking, and the remaining barriers to investment have little to do with a lack of financing.

And this is a weighty argument in favour of a more active work to attract foreign investments, with all the necessary conditions being safeguarded by law.

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

That will enhance Africa's attractiveness to foreign direct investment.

This new partnership has been built on confidence in Central Asia s ability to offer attractive trade and investment opportunities for investors.

Sri Lanka had the potential to attract more FDI and to increase the benefits from it.

Salaries have usually been too low to attract or keep experienced staff.

Efforts could also be made to develop physical and economic infrastructure and human capital in order to attract and absorb foreign investment flows.

(b) A viable level of domestic demand would be generated for information services, thus making less advanced regions more attractive for foreign investors interested in financing local information infrastructures.

I. PROMOTION OF INWARD FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT

Similarly, it is usually the poor and deprived areas within countries that are not attractive to investors.

The efforts to attract FDI are, more often than not, marred by the conspicuous absence of a vibrant domestic investment base in developing countries.

(a) Local governments are under pressure to attract investment and facilitate industrial development

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With increasing competition for FDIs, it is important to develop an attractive package to match the needs of investors.

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

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

The efforts of African countries to raise the level of domestic financial resources and attract investments in sectors of relevance for desertification control must promote activities that are financially profitable in the short or medium term and offer incentives for private sector participation.

This procedure would allow countries wishing to attract investment to be able to address themselves to a single body capable of guiding them in their search for potential investors.

For this purpose, creating an attractive investment climate should be a high and urgent priority.

While the focus of most investment promotion efforts are on attracting FDI, the promotion of outward investment has become more prominent in recent years.

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.

Countries can work to improve all of these factors to make themselves more attractive to international investment.

How effective are they in attracting FDI?

Despite our interest in attracting investments, and despite our efforts to create a climate conducive to the flow of investments, the fact still remains that investment agreements should strike a fair balance between protecting the rights of the investor, on the one hand and ensuring the rights and interests of the receiving States, on the other.

With investment policy regimes becoming increasingly open, countries find that they need to undertake additional promotional efforts to attract inflows of the desired level and of a kind consonant with their development objectives.

TNCs were now being wooed for investment.

In order to encourage domestic investment and to attract foreign direct investment, it is essential to have in place a stable, supportive, effective and transparent legal framework.

While the focus of most investment promotion efforts are on attracting FDI, the promotion of outward investment has become more prominent in recent years.

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

You've got maybe 10 seconds between 10 and 30 seconds, depending on how long the pitch is to get their attention.

It is worth noting that, as the market expects a more stable renminbi, the attractiveness of renminbi assets to foreign investors will also gradually increase.

2. Attracting private investment in infrastructure

Relatively small quantities of public resources could be used to attract private investment.

A problem that needs to be mentioned in the rural area is lack of incentive that allows investment in markets.

The Minister of Investment of Egypt set out the Government's objectives and policies with regard to attracting foreign direct investment.

The Sudan had substantial resources that should be attractive to investors and was anxious to cooperate in promoting the welfare of all peoples.

Distribution services are driven by innovation, with such segments as retailing becoming the most attractive destinations for investment.

With investment policy regimes becoming increasingly open and similar, the trend towards investment promotion is likely to increase, as many countries find that they need to undertake further promotional efforts to attract the desired level of inflows, and of a kind consonant with their development objectives, in the increasingly competitive environment for international investment world wide.

Prohibitive transport and transit costs, narrow resource bases and small domestic markets were not attractive to foreign investors.

Weak infrastructure is an impediment to investment in manufacturing but it can also be an attractive opportunity for the international infrastructure industry.

Research by financial experts suggested that it was possible to develop an investment instrument out of a portfolio of domestic currency assets that could be attractive to foreign investors.

36. UNDP has devoted special efforts to help countries in transition to attract FDI.