How effective are they in attracting FDI?

A. Panel on Attracting FDI for development lessons for LDCs

Joint high level session with WAIPA Attracting FDI in service clusters

Experts also discussed the role of incentives in attracting R D related FDI.

They do so partly in the hope of attracting much needed services FDI.

In any event, successfully attracting FDI can only be part of the story.

Consequently, attracting FDI is not the same thing as building a dynamic investment climate.

Accordingly, getting the investment climate right for Africa has become synonymous with attracting more FDI.

The project Needs Assessment to Attract Asian FDI to Africa provides assistance to African countries in formulating policies favourable to attracting FDI from Asia, including SMEs.

Specifically, it examined the determinants of FDI in the services sector and why some locations had succeeded in attracting FDI to service clusters while others had not.

3.Do BITs prevent countries from attracting the types of FDI that they consider particularly beneficial for development?

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.

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.

Assistance is required to support national investment related institutions and policy advice to create regulatory frameworks conducive to attracting FDI.

From a sustainable development perspective, the two principal concerns of developing countries with regard to foreign direct investment (FDI) are (a) attracting FDI as a source of long term capital, and (b) enhancing the role of FDI in advancing social and environmental objectives.

The issue of the size of host countries was mentioned by various experts as a factor in attracting R D related FDI.

In this context, attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) has assumed an increasingly prominent place in strategies of economic renewal for the region.

Attracting FDI to international production networks could be one option in some circumstances, including in the context of export processing zones (EPZs).

Again, simply leaving this to market forces through standard policy recipes of rapid liberalization in the hope of attracting FDI will neither achieve economic development goals nor maximize any potential gains from hosting FDI.

While the focus of most investment promotion efforts are on attracting FDI, the promotion of outward investment has become more prominent in recent years.

While the focus of most investment promotion efforts are on attracting FDI, the promotion of outward investment has become more prominent in recent years.

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 addition, the presence of reliable infrastructure is a key factor in attracting FDI and multinational enterprises, which, in turn, creates an upward spiral effect.

As stressed by UNCTAD in various issues of the World Investment Report, policies matter not only for attracting FDI but also for benefiting from it.

He shared the view that although bilateral investment agreements could contribute to attracting FDI, their impact was limited by the fact that they did not provide for active policies for the promotion of FDI or the transfer of technology.

Many participants stressed the crucial role of infrastructure in attracting FDI and said that international financial support for infrastructure development, including cross border projects, was needed.

Political stability, structural reform, a growing economy, increasing average income and the adoption of new consumption patterns have characterized the Russian market and services in attracting FDI.

Moreover, the uniformity of views on FDI contrasts with the growing body of opinion that the benefits and costs of FDI are country and sector specific and that measures aimed at attracting foreign firms should only be introduced once the full extent of externalities associated with FDI have been fully examined and assessed.

The case of Mexicali, in Mexico, which was diversifying into attracting FDI in research and development activities clustered around its core base of investors in manufacturing, was highlighted.

In India, the existence of reputed national research institutes and the management style of local companies, for example, were also mentioned as specific factors attracting FDI in R D.

The preponderance of small sized economies and the creation of economic space for investors and entrepreneurs remain an important challenge in attracting large flows of foreign direct investment (FDI).

19. Since the mid term review, certain African countries have encouraged privatization as an instrument of resource mobilization, while others have created a more enabling environment for attracting FDI.

First, not only is the story of attracting FDI through greater openness and downsizing the state open to serious empirical reservations, it also tends to deflect attention from more fundamental determinants of FDI such as market size and growth, industrial dynamism and infrastructure development.

The São Paolo consensus underlined that there was not just one method of development, and Benin should benefit from the best practices and experiences of other countries in attracting FDI.

Accordingly, there is an urgent need to rethink the emphasis on attracting FDI and its replacement with a more balanced and more strategic approach tailored to African conditions and challenges.

He observed that the better performance of Cambodia, among the least developed countries, in attracting FDI in 1996 could have been due to its proximity and prospective membership of ASEAN.

(a) An examination of the country s objectives and competitive position in attracting FDI, providing a dynamic, medium to long term perspective on how to tap emerging regional and global opportunities

In many developing countries, IPAs do not pay adequate attention to the potential for attracting FDI that could contribute to knowledge accumulation but focus rather on capital accumulation in tangible assets.

The representative of Benin, speaking on behalf of the least developed countries (LDCs), drew attention to the importance of government policies, the macroeconomic environment and the regulatory framework for attracting FDI.

The joint high level session of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) with UNCTAD's Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues focused on attracting FDI in service clusters.

Incentives were almost compulsory in attracting FDI, although other elements were undoubtedly important, such as size of market and a stable economic and political environment, but the parameters differed among countries.

The representative of Benin, speaking on behalf of the least developed countries (LDCs), drew attention to the importance of government policies, the macroeconomic environment and the regulatory framework for the attracting FDI.

In this context, the emphasis on liberalization should also raise questions of the development needs of host countries, especially as regards human resources and infrastructure, which were also required for attracting FDI.

11. With the exception of a few individual cases of success, often due to the sale of domestic companies to foreign investors, the experience of Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS as a whole in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), as measured by its share of total world flows, has been disappointing. Member Governments continue to attach a high priority to ECE work on attracting FDI in recognition of its economic benefits.

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