The challenge for the developing countries is to respond to this new reality so as to attract foreign direct investment and maximize its contribution to development.

A number of laws have been adopted to improve the investment climate, attract foreign investment and enhance the taxation regime.

Government investment in infrastructure, both alone and in partnership with private firms, will also directly benefit growth and attract larger inflows of foreign investment.

To be sure, such steps can also attract new settlers.

The country has sought to attract FDI for many years, establishing special economic zones for foreign investment.

She emphasized that TNCs were increasingly looking to developing countries for new markets, supplies and labour, and that governments for their part should work to create a favourable investment climate to attract TNCs.

This work would be relevant to enterprises eager to attract investment regardless of their legal form or size.

These factors considerably limit those countries' ability to attract foreign direct investment and other international private capital flows.

This enhancement of Asia's financial infrastructure will facilitate greater trade for the region and will attract greater investment.

Recognizing further the important role foreign investment should play in those countries, and stressing the need to create an enabling environment to attract more foreign direct investment,

ODA is especially important in those countries which currently have limited capacity to attract private and foreign direct investment.

Some have even designed policies and new services to attract women as customers.

How can developing countries take full advantage of the clean development mechanism to attract investment and achieve national sustainable development objectives?

Recognized that African countries have sought to attract productive foreign direct investment (FDI), with the objective of contributing to the enhancement of the economy and to long term development, by alleviating resource constraints, and helping to avoid further indebtedness, create jobs, acquire new technologies, build linkages with the rest of the economy, crowd in domestic investment, stimulate new export opportunities and reduce poverty

Uganda, for example, has adopted a wide range of measures to improve the investment climate, including the setting up of the Ugandan Investment Authority, a one stop facilitator for investors, whose aim is to attract, promote and facilitate investment.

Some of them are just countries who believe that deregulation or no regulation is the best way to attract investment, promote trade.

Without certain basic infrastructure, LDCs would never be able to develop properly and attract the investment necessary for sustaining long term growth.

Implementing the IPR recommendations could improve Benin's capacity to attract FDI and benefit from FDI by reforming the regulatory and institutional investment framework.

If you want us to be able to compete with China and to attract investment, we could probably attract four to six billion dollars quite easily in the textile sector, if there was zero tariffs would create the type of job.

The efforts to attract FDI are, more often than not, marred by the conspicuous absence of a vibrant domestic investment base in developing countries.

In this regard, he shared the importance of economic diversification and the need to attract investment in targeted sectors such as agribusiness and ICT.

Special efforts have to be made to help developing countries, and especially those in Africa, to build an environment able to attract foreign investment.

Recognizing the important role that foreign direct investment can play in those countries, and stressing the need to create an enabling environment, both domestically and internationally, to attract more foreign direct investment to those countries,

Recognizing further the important role foreign direct investment should play in those countries, and stressing the need to create an enabling environment, both domestically and internationally, to attract more foreign direct investment to those countries,

Digital and broadband technology has the ability to leapfrog Nigeria to new heights by delivering a critical mass of products in a sustained and uninterrupted fashion, the Nigerian film industry is likely to experience huge growth and attract massive private sector investment.

Recognizing further the important role that foreign direct investment should play in those countries, and stressing the need to create an enabling environment, both domestically and internationally, to attract more foreign direct investment to those countries,

Circumstances have forced more and more investors to look for new investment opportunities by adding unconventional asset classes and applying new investment theories and technologies to meet their investment requirements.

I'm also interested in creating new technologies for the arts and to attract people to science and technology.

It is critically important that public services, public investment, and public policy are well managed. Countries that attract and motivate skilled public managers outperform their peers.

25. Encourages developed countries and other partners to support the promotion of private investment in African countries from their countries, in particular in the key productive sectors of the economy, to provide investment guarantees for such investment and to support policies of African countries aimed at promoting a conducive environment to attract foreign investment

Most regional member countries have policies to develop p ublic private partnerships (PPP) and attract foreign direct investment (FDI) with some are already benefiting from substantial flows.

Until now, less than 2 of the Maghreb countries foreign trade has remained within the region. If the region s new leaders can integrate their economies, a market of more than 75 million consumers would attract more foreign investment and trade with the rest of the world.

Jordan appreciated UNIDO's efforts to build capacity and competitiveness, attract investment and promote the private sector, issues that were in line with the priorities of the Jordanian Government.

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

It was noted that the development of domestic skills and innovation capabilities is essential not only to attract FDI in R D but also to benefit from such investment.

It will accomplish this by enabling cities, slum dwellers, financial intermediaries, Governments and the financial service sector to package their upgrading projects in ways that will attract private investment.

In the modern era of globalization, export led growth is supplemented by policies to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), a combination that has been particularly successful in China. Such FDI policies include investment subsidies, tax abatements, and exemptions from domestic regulation and laws.

The country had established a number of mechanisms to attract foreign investment, providing material support for those investing in priority areas and for eight technical centres covering all industrial sectors.

The leaders affirm their ongoing effort to improve the climate for investment in order to attract more investment to the region and thereby stimulate economic growth, job creation to address the problem of unemployment, and a more active role for the private sector in development.

(e) Implementing policies at the national and international levels to attract both public and private investment, domestic and foreign, that enhances knowledge, transfers technology on mutually agreed terms and raises productivity

(e) Implement policies at the national and international levels to attract both public and private investment, domestic and foreign, that enhances knowledge, transfers technology on mutually agreed terms and raises productivity

Most disappointing, even countries that have put their macroeconomic house in order and have made progress in governance have found it difficult to attract investment outside of the natural resource sector.

After business came to a halt, many bathhouses added new facilities, such as saunas and exercise equipment, in an effort to attract customers.

More investment in immunization was needed, particularly through new financing mechanisms.

(e) To implement policies at the national and international levels to attract both public and private investment, domestic and foreign, that enhances knowledge, transfers technology on mutually agreed terms and raises productivity