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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The use of higher payload commercial vehicles was also identified.

(iii) Booklets, fact sheets, wallcharts, information kits foreign direct investment inflows in the ESCWA region

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.

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.

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.

ISAR noted that an enterprise's environmental performance could affect its financial health and hence its sustainability.

First, spending on high return public investments should be increased.

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.

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

The Investment Management Service is responsible for the day to day management of the assets of the Fund and for the maintenance of detailed accounts of all investments and other transactions relating to the Fund.

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.

US and European policymakers do not trust that foreign governments (and their sovereign wealth funds) invest solely on business grounds.

The World Bank supports through its power sectors priority investments project the delivery of least cost, high quality electricity service through improvements in the Timor Leste electricity generation capacity and distribution efficiency.

It is far too simple to generalize institutions elsewhere are much stronger, poverty and particularly extreme poverty have been diminishing, and the battle over natural resources has been largely settled. Even in places like Venezuela, with both huge oil reserves and a traditional minded nationalist government, the status quo allowing for foreign investment in energy resources has survived nearly eight years of President Hugo Chavez.

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).