Since 2001, Bulgaria has managed to attract considerable amounts of Foreign Direct Investment ( FDI ).

Establishment of an attractive business environment leaded to significant inflow of Foreign Direct Investment in the country, facilitating high economic growth rates.

* Round-tripping: Money is deposited in a controlled foreign corporation offshore, preferably in a Tax haven where minimal records are kept, and then shipped back as a Foreign Direct Investment, exempt from taxation.

This means, as the U. S. Dollar accounted for 80 percent in the Thai basket of currencies, the Thai Baht was also depreciated further-making Thailand's export even more competitive and making the country more attractive to Foreign Direct Investment ( FDI ), especially from Japan whose national currency appreciated considerably since 1985.

He attracted the bulk of Africa ’ s Foreign Direct Investment ( FDI ) and made South Africa the focal point of African growth.

* Comparative Analysis of the Use of Foreign Military Sales ( FMS ) and Direct Commercial Sales ( DCS ) in the Procurement of US Defense Articles by the Philippine Government for the Use of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Remegio M. de Vera, June 2004, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL, MONTEREY CA

On August 17, 2006, Foreign Direct Investment magazine ( a British magazine owned by the Financial Times )

Financial Times affiliated Foreign Direct Investment Magazine nominated Kocaeli ( the province of which İzmit is the capital ) among the 25 European Regions of the Future for 2006-2007.

The United States is the number one source of Foreign Direct Investment ( FDI ) in Saudi Arabia with $ 8. 1 billion in 2009, a 56. 5 percent increase from 2008.

* Foreign Direct Investment in Iran

Free market economics were encouraged in the Third World, not only as a measure of countering the spread of socialist ideology during the Cold War, but also as a means of fostering FDI ( Foreign Direct Investment ) and to promote access of foreign companies within the OECD nations to certain sectors of target economies.

In developing countries, governments sometimes reduce or eliminate corporate taxes for the purpose of attracting Foreign Direct Investment or stimulating growth in selected industries.

* Foreign Direct Investment ( FDI ) is permitted between countries, or foreigners are permitted to invest in the commercial operations of a country through a stock or corporate bond market

** Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index: demonstrates the " present and future prospects for international investment flows " via a survey of global executives, whose companies account for over $ 2 trillion in annual global revenue

* Mark Mason, Foreign Direct Investment and Japanese Economic Development, 1899-1931, BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC HISTORY, Second Series, Volume Sixteen, 1987.

Greenfield Investing is often mentioned in the context of Foreign Direct Investment

In addition to these instruments, in 1992 the World Bank adopted Guidelines on the Treatment of Foreign Direct Investment.

Invest Hong Kong () is the department of the Hong Kong SAR Government responsible for Foreign Direct Investment, supporting overseas, Mainland and Taiwanese businesses to set up and expand in Hong Kong.

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Chile's approach to foreign direct investment is codified in the country's Foreign Investment Law, which gives foreign investors the same treatment as Chileans.

The liberal Foreign Investment Act of 1990 provides guarantees against nationalisation, freedom to remit capital and profits, currency convertibility, and a process for settling disputes equitably.

Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency offers support for foreign investors – assists and helps investors in all the necessary legal and administrative procedures.

* Philippines 8th Regular Foreign Investment Negative List

An example was the June 1952 " Basic Policy for the Introduction of Foreign Investment into Japan's Passenger Car Industry " that placed quotas, tariffs and commodity taxes on imports, and when used car imports rose in the mid-1950s, additional measures were used to close that loophole.

Hutchison Whampoa withdrew from its planned purchase of Global Crossing after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States made it clear that purchase by Hutchison would not be approved.

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However, the manufacturing sector is exempted from the Foreign Investment Committee ( FIC ) Guidelines.

* Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust plc ( LSE: FRCL )

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LAAHC is owned by four pre-civil war government bodies: The Libyan National Social Fund ( 30 %), the Libyan National Investment Company ( 30 %), the Libya-Africa Investment Fund ( 25 %), and the Libyan Foreign Investment Company ( 15 %).

CPA Order 39, entitled " Foreign Investment ", provided that " A foreign investor shall be entitled to make foreign investments in Iraq on terms no less favorable than those applicable to an Iraqi investor ," and that " he amount of foreign participation in newly formed or existing business entities in Iraq shall not be limited ...." Additionally, the foreign investor " shall be authorized to ... transfer abroad without delay all funds associated with its foreign investment, including shares or profits and dividends ...."

In 1966 Congress established the International Private Investment Advisory Council ( IPIAC ) under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1966.

It is now the Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust and trades on the London stock exchange.

Concerns were also raised about the monopoly of the Yugoslav Investment Bank and the Bank for Foreign Trade from Belgrade on all foreign investments and trade.

In this role, he was responsible for foreign governmental loans at the State Foreign Investment Administrative Commission.

Li also served as director-general of the Foreign Investment Administration of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade.

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In 1950, he was president of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Council of Europe, and he was vice-president of the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation ( OEEC, later OECD ) in 1948 – 51.

He served as Japanese Ambassador to the OECD from 1988 to 1989 before returning to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he served as Deputy Minister until his promotion to Vice-Minister in 1991 serving until 1993.

He published extensively during the period, including many articles in peer-reviewed journals, and books, such as: Foreign direct investment and industrial restructuring: issues and trends ( co-authored with Winston Fritsch ), published ( also in French ) by the Development Centre Studies, OECD Development Centre, OECD, Paris, 1991 ; and " A Década Republicana: o Brasil e a economia internacional-1888 / 1900 " ( The Republican Decada: Brazil and the international economy, 1888 – 1900 ), published by IPEA-INPES in the series PNPE nº 24.

As Minister for Foreign Trade he was responsible for OECD cooperation, competition and trade policy, consumer affairs and tourism.

The OECD Anti-Bribery Convention ( officially Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions ) is a convention of the OECD aimed at reducing corruption in developing countries by encouraging sanctions against bribery in international business transactions carried out by companies based in the Convention member countries.

In 1965, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes ( ICSID ) was established in the framework of the United Nations, and in 1967, the OECD prepared the Draft Convention on the Protection of Foreign Property although this was not adopted.