Foreign investment is also declining, and local production is paralyzed, necessitating expensive imports.

Its Local Industry Upgrading Program (LIUP) continues to support local suppliers to upgrade through collaborations with foreign firms.

But foreign aid also undermines the development of local state capacity.

An enabling environment encourages entrepreneurship, allows local companies to thrive and attracts foreign investment.

In recent years many local and foreign companies have been investing in renewable energy sources.

Local and foreign born women report abusive behaviour by their spouse in almost equal numbers.

There is also a severe shortage of investment, both local and foreign, in many developing countries.

Islamic banking, for example, may soon be introduced, though some local and foreign investors argue that sharia regulations could drive away much needed foreign investment.

Anti trust legislation is a guarantee against possible abuses by foreign companies adopting and implementing such legislation should allay local retailers' fears about foreign company presence.

TEDxJamaica, held in October 2011, featured a mix of local and foreign speakers and seemed more business oriented.

Foreign banks could never hope to achieve such comprehensive coverage without a local partner.

Related objectives are to enhance the positive spillover of foreign presence onto the local economy and to avoid too harsh impacts on local operators, especially the small ones.

21. Urges the Transitional Authority and all Afghan groups to ensure the safety, security and free movement of all foreign and local United Nations and associated personnel, as well as of all foreign and local personnel of humanitarian organizations, and their safe and unimpeded access to all affected populations

Encouraging participation by foreign investors is a quick way to jump start local bond market activity.

These regulations can be found at the federal, state and local levels, and usually apply to domestic and foreign operators alike.

Apart from domestic local investment, there has been significant foreign investment from the European Union, particularly from Germany and Italy.

Gaston Tong Sang has called all parties to help end the instability in local politics, a prerequisite to attract foreign investors needed to develop the local economy.

The World Bank may indeed be more concerned about local landholders rights than other foreign investors are.

Local Somali administrations, or faction leaders conclude licensing arrangements with foreign countries, companies or individual fishing vessels.

All substantial projects involving foreign investment should have local resource development as part of the contractual agreement.

Such incentives are targeted at foreign investors and the local elite, with the aim of stopping or even reversing capital flight.

Local bond markets provide alternative sources of financing for companies and Governments, which avoid exchange rate risks inherent to foreign financing.

A possible way to facilitate the match between local and foreign partners could be the setting up of databases which would list domestic companies that wish to establish partnerships with foreign partners.

Partnerships with foreign companies were designed to allow local businesses to benefit from technology transfer and training, while creating the most favorable conditions for local producers to add value to domestic production and exports.

Registration requirements may also hinder the participation of foreign bidders in ERAs as they often impose local conditions.

Only in the Philippines do state failure, chronic insurgency, and proliferating ties between local and foreign terrorists come together in a lethal cocktail.

These different government programmes would contribute to bridging the gaps between SMEs and large firms, as well as between local and foreign firms.

Foreign voter participation is clearly bound to work best at a local level, where the issues are more concrete.

Elements of this plan would include identifying clusters of economic actors (both foreign and domestic ones) and ways and means of strengthening these clusters (e.g. by encouraging foreign supermarkets to source locally and to boost local production capacities).

Nonetheless, local and foreign NGO s are now starting to play a role in filling the gap between government policies and front line healthcare delivery.

And this month, the Russian Foreign Ministry s Diplomatic Academy will host a conference in Moscow, with local and international experts discussing the same subject.

The administration of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner generates a great deal of distrust among local and foreign investors, who fear arbitrary measures.

But they must tread lightly, lest they be drawn into a shooting war, which would catalyze new alliances among local and foreign militants.

Related to this comply or explain rule, some countries now require companies with foreign listings to disclose the extent to which the local governance practices differ from the foreign listing standards.

This is a serious accusation, given that one of the big attractions of foreign direct investment is local job creation.

Neither local nor foreign buyers usually know anything about these primates, their endangered status, or that the trade is illegal.

When the bombings had ceased, it had disregarded their opinion and held official meetings with foreign investors and local construction companies and promoting Vieques land sales, thereby subordinating the local population's interests to those of United States agencies and corporations.

Even so, not only foreign investors and local big businesses are worried by his rise in opinion polls. The United States is also concerned.

Foreign investors hope to use large mechanized farms to produce output for export, leaving little or nothing for the local populations.

Moreover, East Asian countries exported increasing quantities of parts and components and capital goods to foreign owned enterprises in China that produce for the local market.

The report was officially launched in more than 30 countries, engaging Heads of State, key policymakers, local Governments and private sector players, both foreign and domestic.

He met the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, representatives of various ministries, representatives of the judiciary, and local government representatives from Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo and Sapporo.

In order to reduce the risks associated with investing in Afghanistan, the government must create a system that benefits local communities and foreign investors alike.

One component is the jihadists, some of them foreign and some local, with direct ties to al Qaeda or, at least, sympathy with its worldview.

Few foreign journalists venture in it is too difficult and too dangerous for them to work inside the country and local reporters are harassed by the authorities.