Likewise, many other European banks are cutting back their overseas business sharply.

In September 2004, United States Secretary of the Interior, Gale Norton, hosted an island business opportunity conference in Los Angeles, the second of its kind, to promote United States overseas territories' potential for business investments.

In terms of outward FDI policies, several developing countries have established outward investment agencies (OIAs), whose primary function is to promote and facilitate investment abroad by helping domestic enterprises develop international business links and pursue overseas business opportunities.

The justification offered for these new impositions is that overseas banks have moved beyond their traditional lending business to engage in substantial and often complex capital market activities.

political entrepreneurship through which the state opens up overseas business opportunities for private capitalists and negotiates the institutional framework for such opportunities to be tapped by these Singaporean firms, and

Malaysia offers a number of facilities such as a fund for OFDI, export credit insurance and guarantee schemes, overseas project financing and the Malaysia Singapore Third Country Business Development Fund.

It provides a source of funding to support small enterprises and entrepreneurial talent to launch new business activities in the Overseas Territories, in particular, but not exclusively, in non traditional areas.

Japanese cars sell well overseas.

The Overseas Territories Environment Programme continued to support the implementation of the environment charters for the overseas Territories.

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.

Most higher education is pursued overseas.

They have expanded overseas through acquisitions.

(b) The split between domestic and overseas investments and the regional allocation within the overseas portfolio and the associated currency decisions

The British Overseas Territories Bill, which confers British citizenship on British Overseas Territories citizens, completed its parliamentary process in 2001 2002.

Source Ministry of Labor, Manpower Overseas Pakistanis

70 of nursing graduates go overseas to work.

Figure 3. Mechanisms of overseas operations by SINTNCs

Mr. Dirk Willem Te Velde, Overseas Development Institute

But we should not get carried away overseas Indians still invest a lower proportion of their resources in India than overseas Chinese do in China.

A few have been sent for management training overseas.

The Global Times, however, has not been shy about advertising China s interest in establishing naval bases overseas. In a recent editorial, China Needs Overseas Bases for Global Role, the newspaper urged the outside world to understand China s need to set up overseas military bases.

In a recent editorial, China Needs Overseas Bases for Global Role, the newspaper urged the outside world to understand China s need to set up overseas military bases.

This was just the first of several musical tours overseas.

I was flying back to the U.S. from an exhibition overseas.

They are now expanding overseas, fortified by their strong capital backing.

He or members of his family nurture large overseas bank accounts.

And more than half of what BNDES sends overseas is secret.

France obtained many overseas possessions in the Americas, Africa and Asia.

However, these enterprises face a number of challenges in investing overseas.

Expenditure for public health services overseas was 700 thousand in 2003.

These are not problems you can leave overseas. They follow you home.

Japan s overseas aid declined by 44 when that country hit hard times.

(Americans, for example, can buy insurance from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.)

The fortress of Sveaborg also made the place less vulnerable from overseas.

That ambition is to revive militarism and to achieve overseas expansion militarily.

The Overseas Pakistani Division (OPD) was created in September 2004 within the Ministry of Labour (MoL), and has since recognized the importance of overseas Pakistanis and their contribution to the nation's economy.

He continued to work with several of the Territories in identifying and pursuing Commission development aid as provided for under the European Union Overseas Countries and Territories Overseas Association Decision of November 2001.

Hometown security means creating wealth here at home, instead of destroying it overseas.

His large income makes it possible for him to travel overseas every year.

Corporate employers are even complaining about not being able to attract overseas talent.

As a result, Run is considered to be the first English overseas colony.

It also participated in several United Nations peacekeeping missions overseas in 5 occasions.

See How can Chinese enterprises go overseas? (in Chinese), http www.chinaus.net 3318.htm.

UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, CROWN DEPENDENCIES AND OVERSEAS TERRITORIES

5 British Overseas Territories Bill, Explanatory Notes, House of Lords, 26 June 2000.