This has increased investor confidence in some developing regions.

Foreign investments are also more likely among SMEs that already have some international experience.

87. The Investment Code, the Labour Code and collective agreements contain no provisions reserving certain jobs for women or prohibiting women from access to certain jobs.

While the political and macroeconomic stability in Benin were important factors in attracting FDI, the IPR nevertheless highlighted certain weaknesses relating to the investment framework.

In the area of the protection of investment, efforts are being made to provide investors with assurances and guarantees concerning certain aspects of the treatment of their investments that are of particular importance to them, including commitments in the area of dispute settlement.

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.

Calculates the interest paid on a given period of an investment.

He noted from the Meeting s agreed conclusions that some countries were more successful in attracting FDI than others, and that FDI inflows were concentrated on a small group of countries.

She also referred to the increasing outward investments from developing countries and said that although 90 per cent of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the world still originated in developed countries, some developing countries had emerged as significant investors.

There have been some significant developments on economic issues that have helped, to some extent, to improve the investment climate, including in the areas of privatization, access to loans from the European Investment Bank, and long term lease possibilities for investors.

Why have certain countries that had never before concluded BITs decided to start this practice now?

But, provided that the returns are positive, such investments are still worth making. Given near zero interest rates and idle workers, it is time for the state to undertake the rebuilding of infrastructure.

Experts also observed that, for home countries, the most important purpose of bilateral investment treaties is to secure predictable conditions for their investment abroad, including certain standards of treatment and protection, and independent third party means for the settlement of investment disputes.

Experts also observed that, for home countries, the most important purpose of bilateral investment treaties is to secure predictable conditions for their investment abroad, including certain standards of treatment and protection, and independent third party means for the settlement of investment disputes.

Attracting development assistance is in some respects as competitive as encouraging foreign direct investment by developing countries.

Despite the importance of remittances in some economies in the developing regions, there has been a dearth of systematic efforts to utilize those resources for development purposes and to generate investments.

Most developing country micro enterprises operated outside legal frameworks, but the assets of these enterprises were greater than the FDI flows to some developing countries.

Indeed, economic investment often directly benefited the inhabitants of a given region.

Not only was a considerable amount of investment required, but a country might also have to face restrictions in acquiring certain technologies.

All call for substantial capital investment.

The emerging trend of increasing outward FDI from some developing countries also provides opportunities to attract investment flows, however these trends and their impacts are still poorly understood

3.What has been the experience with respect to investment facilitation under BITs?

Some of the Asia Pacific and Latin American and Caribbean countries have begun to issue long term, local currency bonds to promote investments.

The factors driving outward FDI have been in place in some developing countries in an embryonic form for decades.

Returns the number of periods needed for an investment to retain a desired value.

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38. With respect to paragraph 50, it was observed that companies wishing to have access to loans provided by investment funds and other so called quot institutional investors quot , such as insurance companies, collective investment schemes (e.g. mutual funds) or pension funds, typically had to fulfil certain requirements, such as having a positive credit rating.

And it's investments, not donations, not loans, but investments that have a dynamic return.

While it was noted that the recent export upturn has helped some countries raise their investment levels, such events could prove to be one off gains.

As regards investment incentives, it was only when countries had met a certain number of basic criteria in terms of a healthy economic environment and an adequate legal investment framework and infrastructure that they could attract increased FDI, and incentives alone were not sufficient.

The investment policy reviews and investment guides produced by UNCTAD had been valuable in improving the investment policy environment in those countries.

The investment policy reviews and investment guides produced by UNCTAD had been valuable in improving the investment policy environment in those countries.

The main characteristic of BITs is that they are exclusively concerned with investment.

(c) What are the steps in undertaking an investment from plans to operations and how can these steps be facilitated so that potential investors do not lose interest?

The sector s difficulties were attributable, among other things, to a reduction in international investment, delays in the execution of some oil projects, the cancellation of some tender contracts, technological shortcomings and an increase in negotiating expenses.

In part, this means that existing infrastructure projects that are supposed to be financed from national budgets could be funded by the EIB. By removing some of the burden from national budgets, the current decline in public investment could be reversed.

These large scale investments may account of a significant portion of OFDI from Singapore to Hong Kong (China).

An UNCTAD 1996 survey of 80 investment promotion agencies (IPAs) wordwide shows that 73 per cent of the IPAs have a system of some sort for identifying and attracting investors, and assessing their economic and financial strengths.

These objectives were achieved by means of the following investments

Based on the valuable investment previously made in the Fund's accounting software, it is likely that some of the main tools required will already be available.

UNCTAD's assessment was that with regard to the investment framework, the majority of the recommendations had been fully implemented and in some areas had even surpassed expectations.

Some reports provided relevant background information.

2 Includes some salary charges related to previous biennium