In addition to participating directly in financing investments, IDC helps companies identify investment opportunities abroad.

They also help companies take informed business and investment decisions.

Outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) by Singaporean companies has a long history.

Investment and technology choices made by companies are shaping the global economy.

Governments and pharmaceutical companies should increase investment in order to provide affordable treatments to people in developing countries.

UNCTAD and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) launched in March 2005 a Joint African Investment Initiative to encourage greater investment by Japanese companies in Africa.

China is providing investment insurance and tax breaks to companies that invest abroad.

Companies such as Airbus S.A.S. and French oil giant Total have cancelled billions of dollars in investment in Iran.

European companies in the relevant sectors are thus expected to make up a significant part of CDM investment.

Foreign investment in Croatia was constitutionally protected and regulated under the law on trading companies and other provisions.

An enabling environment encourages entrepreneurship, allows local companies to thrive and attracts foreign investment.

Second, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) must screen investments in or acquisitions of US companies by foreign companies, including Chinese companies, for national security risks. Such screening is a common and justifiable practice around the world.

We will work together with Irish industry and partner companies in Africa to promote trade, investment and technology transfer.

Thus, Malaysian home country measures are closely linked to Malaysian companies and investment in countries in the South East Asian region.

To be sure, the fact that companies are holding on to their cash, rather than paying it out in dividends, signals that they expect investment opportunities to return a far more positive situation than in Japan, for example, where companies lack cash to invest. But European companies remain hesitant, despite low interest rates, keeping private investment well below its previous peak.

In addition, a number of initiatives have been launched by several development agencies, private companies and NGOs to encourage investment in developing countries.

These instruments include tax exemption on income remitted into the country by Malaysian companies investing overseas, the provision of investment guarantees and investment promotion missions abroad.

Registered investment companies and investment advisers are required to adopt strong compliance controls, managed by a chief risk officer and administered by a chief compliance officer.

Uncertainties about the economy are likely to insert an element of caution into companies investment decisions. In short, it is more likely that moderating investment will exacerbate the consumer slowdown than that an acceleration of investment will offset it.

In 2010, Chinese direct investment in the EU totaled only 1.3 billion. Today, when governments and companies in Europe are opening their arms to foreign investors, Chinese companies eager for markets, technologies, and diversification should find rich pickings.

By an executive order of 15 March 1995 the President of the United States banned any foreign trade or investment in the Islamic Republic, including the trade in Iranian oil by American companies or their affiliated foreign companies

17. It was noted that investment by health service providers, including insurance companies, from developed countries in developing countries was a growing trend.

Foreign direct investment accounts by more than 1,000 overseas companies translates into 145,000 jobs in Ireland, 70 of total exports, and 2.8 billion in corporate tax receipts. These companies spend 16 billion per year on goods, services, and wages in Ireland.

Fundline includes portfolio investment funds, private equity funds and companies, venture capital funds, mutual funds and other equity vehicles.

Foreign expansion of retailers has been mostly through acquisitions of domestic chains in other countries, some greenfield investment, and joint ventures with local companies.

The security companies registered in South Africa include Combat Force, Investment Surveys, Honey Badger Arms and Ammunition, Shield Security, Kas Enterprises and Longreach Security.

Lack of information on investment opportunities and the host investment environment (including unfamiliarity with the legal system and OFDI regulations in the host country) is a more serious problem for SMEs than for large companies.

24. In cooperation with other international organisations, development banks, donor agencies, local governments, NGOs and private investment companies, the UNCTAD secretariat has undertaken a census of microbanks worldwide with the aim of identifying potential recipients of private investment funds, as well as appropriate investment instruments.

Reducing the tax rate for companies substantially, while eliminating targeted business tax preferences and broadening the corporate tax base, would increase both investment and workers wages. Allowing multinational companies to repatriate overseas profits without paying additional US tax would also bolster investment and job creation at home.

Finally, the TPP seeks to bring into the ambit of a trade and investment agreement new and emerging issues. These include trade and investment in innovative products and services, including digital technologies, and ensuring state owned enterprises compete fairly with private companies and do not distort competition in ways that put US companies and workers at a disadvantage.

In addition, UNCTAD's work on TNC SME linkages was considered crucial to help domestic companies in developing countries to take advantage of new trade and investment opportunities.

The increasingly fierce competition seems to make investment in foreign markets more and more of a necessity in order for companies to maintain or strengthen their competitiveness.

In addition, there was excessive investment in speculative assets, such as real estate and stocks, which rendered the banks and finance companies vulnerable to an economic slowdown.

This encourages local companies to explore overseas investment opportunities that will enable them to enhance their competitiveness expand and grow.

In some developing countries, such as Ghana, India, Lebanon and Nigeria, there are positive trends with evidence of companies considering philanthropic activities as social investment.

35. Japan gives priority to the countries in which Japanese companies have decided to carry out productive investment programmes, such as the Philippines and Thailand.

In addition, fostering linkages between foreign and domestic companies is a crucial component of a policy that aims to maximize the beneficial effects of foreign direct investment.

The EDB also has an investment arm that acts as the visible hand of the Government in promoting the productivity, innovativeness and competitiveness of companies in Singapore through different channels.

Second, the private sector did not respond by increasing business investment and hiring enough new workers. Instead, companies hoarded vast cash reserves, mainly in tax free offshore accounts.

For overseas branches, the net amount due to the local parent companies is taken as an approximation of the magnitude of direct investment.

The sharp deterioration in the external environment not only shattered the profitability of the fledgling manufacturing sector, choking investment prospects and increasing its vulnerability to further shocks, but also constrained investment in the primary sector, where much production was organized through state owned companies.

In the advanced countries, the fall in asset values and, more generally, fear of what comes next has shattered consumer and business confidence. Consumption is dropping, and companies are cutting investment.

As normal commercial companies, cooperatives in Germany compete with other commercial companies.

38. With respect to paragraph 50, it was observed that companies wishing to have access to loans provided by investment funds and other so called quot institutional investors quot , such as insurance companies, collective investment schemes (e.g. mutual funds) or pension funds, typically had to fulfil certain requirements, such as having a positive credit rating.

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