The objectives of our plan promote the MDGs. A number of laws have been adopted to improve the investment climate, attract foreign investment and enhance the taxation regime.

Liberia s strategy to attract large scale foreign investment in mining, agriculture, and forestry will help rebuild infrastructure and boost employment and tax receipts.

Foreign direct investment was valued at 8.3 billion in 2006.

There are practically no restrictions on foreign investment.

On average, it is five times the level of foreign investment.

Without high speed Internet, foreign investment and indigenous entrepreneurship are almost impossible.

Private investments, including foreign investments, were the key to sustained growth and employment generation.

Africa's share of global trade continues to be marginal, and while the region has recently witnessed positive developments in attracting foreign direct investment, those gains need to be consolidated through a facilitative international framework of support for efforts on the continent to create an environment conducive to investment.

Private investments, including foreign investments, were the key to sustained growth and employment generation.

If one looks at foreign direct investment, it is clear that the two sides of the Atlantic are closely integrated.

Do you see foreign investment and acquisitions in America as a positive development or a potential peril?

In 2005, Foreign direct investment in Kraków has reached approximately 3.5 billion USD.

Foreign direct investment flows can and should be encouraged to a wider circle of developing countries.

Of course, foreign investment in the TAR is a drop in the ocean relative to that in China as a whole.

Rapid economic growth is to be based on the private sector, including foreign direct investment.

Secondly, foreign direct investment has been concentrated in, and is becoming almost confined to, the larger, faster growing developing countries.

Licensing requirements for foreign investment have also been reduced, making investment easier for enterprises.

Foreign direct investment from developing countries to other developing countries seems to be growing more rapidly than that from developed to developing countries.

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Russian corporations foreign investments have already generated a heated debate in both the United States and Europe even when investment was done by a private company.

The third issue is that of re establishing some sort of financial framework so that the people in the country can bring about investment, from micro credit through to financing small and medium sized industry or, indeed, attracting outside investment.

While an estimated 1.5 trillion of Arab funds are invested abroad, the inflow of foreign direct investment to the Arab region in 2002 was only 4.5 billion, a mere 0.7 per cent of the world's total foreign direct investment.

Foreign investment is limited in sectors that the EU considers to be strategically and politically important.

Similarly, long term foreign investors have had reason to pause.

However, it was also argued by some participants that foreign direct investment often did not benefit the poor.

Participant at a seminar on Foreign Investment Negotiation at ILI, Washington, D.C., United States of America.

This land grab, which is occurring mostly in Sub Saharan Africa, constitutes a major threat to the future food security of the populations concerned.

One of the objectives of NEPAD is to attract high and stable inflows of FDI.

It should be a matter of great concern to all of us that Africa continues to have the lowest share of global foreign direct investment flows.

Africa, in particular, is likely to show a modest increase in foreign direct investment inflows but here again those investments remain largely concentrated subregionally and sectorally.

In the nineteenth century, the United States restricted foreign investment in several sectors, including finance.

But, over the past several years, a number of sub Saharan countries have attracted unprecedented inflows of foreign capital.

The agriculture of Angola is currently expanding due to the end of the Angolan Civil War in 2002, and the growth of foreign investment in the sector.

By June 2005, Chinese total direct investment in Africa had reached 1.025 billion.

As globalization advances and economies become more tightly integrated, worries about the effects of foreign competition through trade or through foreign investment have fueled economic nationalism and protectionist sentiments.

It is possible that, before the end of the decade, China s current account surplus will move into deficit, as the country imports more than it exports and spends its foreign investment income on imports rather than on foreign securities.

To what extent any such agreement could hold in the scramble for limited FDI remained debatable, however.

Some estimates indicate that by the end of the past decade, more than a third of the foreign direct investment going to developing countries came from their peers.

Furthermore the US, the EU member states and the East Asian countries all regulated inward foreign investment and imposed capital controls.

Foreign investment has grown recently from 1.5 billion (2004) to 2.5 billion (2005).

CAMBRIDGE China s current account surplus the combination of its trade surplus and its net income from foreign investments is the largest in the world.

That would make it possible to provide a sustainable source for our financing and would help create the proper scenario for increased direct foreign investments to improve productivity.

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The government hopes that these foreign investments will set the stage for the banks to go public on stock exchanges in Hong Kong and elsewhere during 2006, whereas foreign banks are investing with an eye to penetrating the enormous Chinese market.

Liberia has the highest ratio of foreign direct investment to GDP in the world, with US 16 billion in investment since 2006.