With increasing competition for FDIs, it is important to develop an attractive package to match the needs of investors.

Similarly, it is usually the poor and deprived areas within countries that are not attractive to investors.

However, while financial stringency proved attractive to foreign investors, a tight monetary and fiscal stance did little to stimulate domestic investment or to improve export prospects.

With regard to the role of regional cooperation, at its session ECE was of the view that such initiatives can play an important role in improving the business climate and in making countries attractive for investors.

Europe, gripped by a tremendous banking and debt crisis, is not an attractive destination, and loose monetary policy in the US has produced ultra low bond yields there. As a result, many emerging countries, with their higher interest rates and promising growth prospects, have become irresistibly attractive to investors.

Foreign investors are repatriating their funds on an unprecedented scale. Ironically, the measures being taken to resolve the crisis in advanced countries are making it more attractive to bring money home, making life harder for emerging market countries.

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All of this not only enhances confidence that strong US growth will persist it also reinforces the belief that the US Federal Reserve will begin raising interest rates, conceivably as early as April. For investors, this makes buying dollars even more attractive.

The share of manufacturing in India's GDP was increasing at a rapid pace, and a liberal foreign direct investment (FDI) policy and continuous rationalization and lowering of taxes and duties had made India an attractive destination both for domestic and foreign investors.

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These measures were positive signs for foreign investors.

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For this purpose, creating an attractive investment climate should be a high and urgent priority.

As for the number of new investors, there were about 310,000 new investors each week in July, which still stayed at a low level.

Some argued that regional cooperation may offer opportunities for smaller countries to make themselves more attractive.

I have been conducting surveys of US investors under the auspices of the Yale School of Management, asking what percentage change they expect for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The expected one year increase in the Dow in 2005 averages 4.8 for institutional investors and 4.3 for individual investors.

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These markets can become a strong source of financing for longer term domestic investment, including in infrastructure, thereby reducing currency risk for borrowers and investors. But strong and sustainable development of these markets cannot occur without institutional and regulatory reforms that ensure an attractive environment, as well as capacity building in both the public and private sectors to facilitate further market development.

The domestic food retail market is expected to grow at an annual rate of 14 per cent over the period 2004 2010 this makes the Russian Federation a country with an attractive market for both domestic and foreign investors and one where the retail sector offers business opportunities next only to oil and gas in terms of potential.

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Even though the younger workforce is ready to work for lower wages, the existing system is not attractive.

Among economic factors, labour productivity based on low labour costs (for efficiency seeking investors) and high GDP growth rates (for market seeking investors) have been the most important determinants (Dasgupta and Ratha, 2000).

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There is also a risk that foreign investors, who already are starting to like Mexico, might come to love it a little too much. A huge influx of capital could lead to a significant appreciation of the peso s exchange rate, causing an increase in Mexico s currently very attractive labor costs.

Currently, new investors' interest is picking up, and some investors established before 1998 have dramatically increased capacity.

It was evident that the prevailing working conditions were not sufficiently attractive for staff to speedily take up their assignments.

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Such councils would provide a direct channel for communication between potential investors and policymakers.

Market based solutions to the climate challenge run the very serious risk of undermining development objectives, precisely because they aim to raise the price of energy services in order to make renewable energy sources attractive to private investors. Indeed, the protectionist elements tacked on to these proposals make them decidedly anti development.

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The weaker US made investing in crude oil, which is priced in US , more attractive, underpinning oil prices for the day.