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In both, strong investment and export drives reflected an expanded role for market based incentives.

(b) Financial incentives provide finance for new investment or to defray capital or operation costs.

Incentives to encourage foreign investment could be given foreign investment was important, in that technology acquired from abroad could be adapted to meet local needs as long as incentives for local investors were balanced against that.

It has, at the same time, created incentives for national and foreign private investment in the health sector.

(e) Is there a role for international cooperation in encouraging greater transparency in the granting of investment incentives?

In a globalizing world, competition for foreign direct investment focuses on the establishment of a good business environment and investment incentives, consistent with national development objectives.

Regionally funded investment guarantees and non discriminatory region wide tax incentives would also impact favourably on the region's investment climate.

7. With regard to the role of incentives, experts noted that the pros and cons of incentives for inward investment have never been conclusive and are unlikely ever to be so.

Late in 1996, the Government instituted special incentives to encourage investment on that island.

In response to this, we have introduced incentives to attract investment from both internal and external sources, and we have established an investment promotion authority to act as the catalyst for rapid investment growth.

Special efforts were needed to assist African countries to strengthen their domestic environment for investment and provide incentives for investment, with the aim of addressing that imbalance and lack of development resources.

Solving the problems in developing countries calls not only for improving agricultural productivity, but also for financial incentives to encourage investment in agriculture.

Given the dilemma inherent in the competition for FDI whereby countries tend to overbid through investment incentives governments would collectively maximize welfare by cooperatively agreeing in principle to limit the amount of incentives offered.

There was also a lively exchange of views on the role of incentives in investment promotion.

The paper also considers the role of incentives in investment promotion.Many governments offer incentives to investors, though their costs and benefits are not easily calculated and evidence suggests that they are not of fundamental importance in influencing investment decisions.

Incentives for participation

Paraguay's legal tax structure recognized the same rights for both foreign and domestic investment, and offered incentives to new investment and reinvestment in a wide range of sectors, including bio fuel and outsourcing.

In some economies, structural rigidities adversely affect investment incentives and returns. Similarly, regulatory opacity and, more broadly, uncertainty about the direction of economic policy has discouraged investment.

Incentives for female entrepreneurs

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.

Discussions had been held on issues such as a possible multilateral framework on investment and its development dimension, export processing zones, targeting investors, locational decisions of investors, outward investment promotion measures and investment incentives.

Indeed, it is misleading to term this situation a savings glut, for that would imply that countries running current account surpluses should reduce domestic incentives to save. But if the problem is weak investment, then a reduction in such incentives will lead to excessively high real interest rates when the factors holding back investment dissipate.

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5. A number of least developed countries had made strong efforts to attract foreign direct investment through the liberalization of their economies and the provision of enhanced investment incentives.

Need for appropriate economic incentives.

Subsidies for innovative projects (incentives)

UNCTAD had been requested to analyse trade related questions of investment and incentives in the agricultural sector of African economies.

The Trade and Development Report 1997 shows clearly the importance in the successful East Asian countries of government tax incentives and other incentives to enterprises in all sectors so that they retain and reinvest profits. Retained earnings are commonly the most readily available source of capital for corporate investment. High levels of private investment are a necessary condition for rapid economic growth.

Important drivers include improvements in the home country OFDI regulatory framework, capital account liberalization (relaxed exchange controls), signing of trade, investment and taxation treaties, and incentives (e.g. tax rebates and investment insurance for OFDI) by home governments.

A lower rate would strengthen incentives for investment and job creation in the US, and weaken incentives for tax avoidance. It would also reduce numerous efficiency reducing distortions in the US tax code, including substantial tax advantages for debt financing over equity financing and for non corporate businesses over corporate businesses.

That investment, primarily from the private sector, has been fostered through a programme of State sponsored education, research and financial incentives.

Facilitate, by way of incentives, the involvement and investment of the private sector in the exploitation of opportunities involving space technologies.

The reason for this is incentives.

For once, your incentives are aligned.

Governments offer incentives to attract FDI, to steer it into favoured industries or regions, or to influence its character, for example, when technology intensive investment is being sought.

For tax incentives, the programmes administrated by IE Singapore such as Double Deduction for Overseas Investment Development Expenditure (DD) allow a double deduction of up to S 200,000 per approval against the income of approved expenditure incurred in initiating and developing investment outside Singapore.

Policy options include tax incentives, R D funds, economic development agencies, incentives for networking and joint ventures.

The open economic environment combined with a more realistic exchange rate and substantial investment incentives attracted unprecedented flows of both foreign aid and foreign investment which have helped to generate new employment opportunities.

Tax incentives or subsidies for efficient equipment

The role of incentives for biodiversity conservation