The financial case for UNLB over New York is further weakened by the current trend in United States dollar and euro exchange rates.

Reduced rates of return will lower investment rates.

The first is the high return on foreign investment in China.

Our return on investment needs to be impact on our communities.

Foreign direct investment

Foreign direct investment

FDI and Development Policy Issues Related to the Growth of FDI in Services

The Benefits of Chinese FDI

FDI And Development The Case of Privatization Related Services FDI Trends, Impact and Policy Issues

The representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) focused on the investment climate and the creation of an environment conducive to FDI.

Beware of FDI Protectionism

Indian equity participation is largely majority owned.

(q) European direct investment (Eurostat 10)

In the case of ASEAN, intraregional FDI accounts for close to one fifth of the total FDI.

The Expert Meeting will focus on the issues of FDI data compilation and analysis and its role in the formulation of FDI policies from a development perspective.

You have to go in and you have to have a cost benefit analysis, a feasibility study, an ROI study and so forth.

But a demographic dividend is only as good as the investment in your human capital.

One of the reasons for this is that in most Latin American and Caribbean countries, FDI policies focus on attracting large quantities of FDI and do not pay much attention to the nature of FDI.

Ireland showed the importance of foreign direct investment.

The impact of FDI on development

Emerging FDI from developing countries

Obstacles to OFDI

Foreign direct investment flows can, and should, be encouraged.

Effectiveness of Foreign Direct Investment Policy Measures

The investment climate and FDI

Reasons for OFDI now include, apart from seeking markets, to acquire strategic assets like technology, marketing and brand names, and establish trade supporting networks.

Direct public investment in resource protection

Investment policies should extend to both domestic and foreign direct investment.

FDI in safety we were just watching and taking care of the perimeter of FDI and 30 seconds later, it exploded we were hit by RPG's and AK's then began to arrive so far, I saw everything happening where the insurgents appeared, and where were the RPG, ve only dust and dirt everywhere, smoke

See the World Investment Report 2004 for details on the latest trends in foreign direct investment and BPO.

The past 40 years have demonstrated the remarkable return on investment to be gained in collaborative scientific research.

The Government would be following up on the implementation of the recommendations of the IPR, which related to modernizing the FDI entry regime, strengthening Board of Investment (BOI) core functions and reforming the tax regime on investment.

The shift of FDI to services

Outward FDI from developing countries

Table 2. FDI outflows as a percentage of gross fixed capital formation in selected economies, 2001 2003a (concluded)

The case of South South FDI

Drivers and motivation of OFDI

Benefits and costs of FDI for African development

Foreign direct investment flows were still unevenly distributed and there was a strong need for measures to address that problem.

The main factors that motivate firms from the South to invest abroad are similar to those that motivate FDI from developed countries.

) To the extent that these agreements protect investment and open up industries for FDI, they facilitate OFDI from developing countries.

FDI by SMEs involved evaluation of investment locations based on a set of variables which could be clustered under markets, costs, natural resources, infrastructure framework, policy framework and business promotion and support factors.

The former include the decentralization of FDI promotion, the development of training programmes for staff involved in investment promotion, and initiatives to educate civil society about FDI and its development impact.

Two new studies on New developments in African FDI and the World Investment Directory Africa are in preparation.

Luxembourg and Spain, both major recipients of FDI in 2003, received lower FDI inflows last year.