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

It is also discouraging foreign direct investment, as is the discrediting of Egypt s police forces. As a result, still more sources of working and investment capital are disrupted, amplifying the impact of domestic capital flight.

Foreign direct investment

Foreign direct investment

(a) Different types of capital flows (foreign direct investment, portfolio investments, borrowing etc.) have very different degrees of beneficial effects.

23. There is an urgent need for policies that will both inhibit the flow of volatile short term capital and encourage long term capital, especially foreign direct investment.

In particular, capital expenditure revived in many countries and foreign direct investment inflows into the region also increased sharply in 2004.

C. Investment and capital flows

INCLUDING CAPITAL FLOWS INVESTMENT TRADE

(c) Allowing foreign direct investment (FDI).

Direct public investment in resource protection

It requires sizeable and critical amounts of external financing, such as grant assistance, loans, export earnings and foreign direct investment or other capital market flows.

Statistics show that, in these countries, remittances represent the second most important source of capital lagging behind only foreign direct investment and surpassing ODA flows.

In 2004, China's direct investment in Africa reached 135 million, a record high for China's annual direct investment in Africa.

All call for substantial capital investment.

Review of direct investment in real estate

I. Recent developments in foreign direct investment

a) Promotion of inward foreign direct investment

b) Promotion of outward foreign direct investment

I. PROMOTION OF INWARD FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT

II. PROMOTION OF OUTWARD FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT

Net foreign direct investment in 1992 1996

25. Furthermore, direct foreign investment remained highly concentrated.

item foreign direct investment and development in a

Foreign direct investment flows can, and should, be encouraged.

Direct public investment in resource protection 39 41 19

That will enhance Africa's attractiveness to foreign direct investment.

I. Promotion of inward foreign direct investment 7 41

II. Promotion of outward foreign direct investment 42 50

Movements of private capital portfolio investment and direct investment were playing a growing role, while concessional assistance as a share of capital inflows, which had been continuously declining since the 1960s, had remained virtually stagnant, and commercial bank lending had practically dried up since the debt crisis of the 1980s.

(1) Trends in foreign direct investment, in particular to least developed countries, their determinants and impediments, and policy implications for the promotion of foreign direct investment

Against the background of global and regional foreign direct investment trends and on the basis of an analysis of the interrelationships between foreign direct investment and trade, the Commission will discuss national and international policy measures designed to increase the contribution of foreign direct investment to development, including, especially, measures to encourage foreign direct investment flows to developing countries, especially least developed countries.

Flows of foreign investment capital contributed significantly to industrialization.

Development assistance was a source of financing in countries whose capacity to mobilize resources from the capital market and foreign direct investment was constrained by their low level of development.

13. The rapid liberalization of international trade, the growth in direct foreign investment and the changes in world capital flows had had an impact on poverty alleviation in developing countries.

Case study on outward foreign direct investment by Singaporean firms

Case study on outward foreign direct investment by Singaporean firms

This study refers only to outward foreign direct investment (FDI).

3. Recent developments in foreign direct investment trends and policies

(d) Increase resource flows to Africa, including foreign direct investment

B. Promotion of the private sector and foreign direct investment

2. The privatization being gradually implemented by the Governments of developing countries would require foreign private capital in the form of external loans to the private sector or foreign direct investment.

In all developing regions, however, foreign direct investment remained geographically concentrated.

Outward foreign direct investment by Indian small and medium sized enterprises

ODA could not be replaced entirely by increased foreign direct investment.