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The notion that Russia could become a bridge between Europe and Asia is also vanishing because transport costs between the country's western and eastern half are too high to attract outside commerce.
When the medical-device industry was blocked from producing lucrative products like heart valves, owing to the lack of specialized firms to provide sterilization services, the government used incentives to attract such companies.
This is an implicit subsidy to the industries that use oil and gas intensively and may attract some inward foreign investment.
All members need to be able to exploit comparative advantages within the Single Market, attract capital, and generate jobs.
But more must be done to enable countries to develop a robust project pipeline that supports a stronger public-investment program, which is critical to any strategy to attract substantial resources from the private sector.
Today, a variety of strategic “poles” is available, each with the capacity to attract and influence.
The reality of a multipolar world is that other players can attract and influence.
With congressional support and pro-growth policies, Puerto Rico can attract talented Americans (and legal immigrants) to move to the island, start companies, and work hard.
It needs to reduce the cost of doing business – cut the red tape, encourage investment, and attract people to work (and pay tax in) a beautiful place.
To attract that support, some steps towards freedom of the press have been taken, but censorship remains strict.
With the right credentials and some luck, you could attract investment from a venture-capital fund.
Furthermore, labor-market liberalization, once considered indispensable to attract investors and promote industrial growth, is on the back burner.
Likewise, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who once derided “tax terrorism,” has unleashed the taxman on entirely new categories of victims, including the foreign institutional investors Modi is trying to attract.
“policy proposals,” the former reality television star knows exactly how to attract an angry population struggling to frame its grievances.
But PMFIs seeking to attract private-equity capital emphasized growth over sustainability, lent indiscriminately to people who couldn’t pay them back – and attracted public opprobrium in the process.
For better or for worse, democracy in the region has been accompanied by policies of economic liberalisation and efforts to attract foreign investment, culminating in the signing of the Central American Free Trade Agreement with the US in 2005.
Meanwhile, there are almost no engineers among radical left-wing groups, which are more likely to attract graduates in humanities and social sciences.
As the world’s second-largest source of foreign direct investment, the EU wields considerable influence, with European investors bringing credibility to projects and regions, thereby serving to attract further investment.
Some banks and businesses now offer zero-cost remittance services to attract customers.
The IMF "remedy" so far has been to tighten credit and close banks, on the grounds that tight credit and high interest rates will attract funds from abroad.
Emerging and developing countries, for their part, will need to attract more foreign direct investment, boost domestic investment, and expand their capacity to adopt new technologies.
Lacking in saving and wanting to consume and grow, the US must import surplus saving from abroad to close the gap, forcing it to run massive current-account and trade deficits with countries like China to attract the foreign capital.
This can be achieved through traps and targets (insecticide-soaked screens), which attract the flies to a device that collects and/or kills them.
Researchers also pursued a deeper understanding of the genes involved in sensing colors, in order to help determine which shade of blue – the color that has long been known to attract tsetse flies – would work best for traps.
For starters, it is essential that advocacy efforts to ensure better resourcing of the current GPE model continue, accompanied by a strategy to attract new donor governments and new private-sector and philanthropic engagement.
With a mission-oriented approach and the freedom to experiment – with failure understood to be an unavoidable, and even welcome, feature of the learning process – the state is better able to attract top talent and pursue radical innovation.
The Rain on Russia’s ParadeWASHINGTON, DC – When Russian President Vladimir Putin presides over the military parade commemorating Victory in Europe Day on May 9, he will not attract the crowd he could have expected a couple of years ago.
Unlike hunger or land mines, the cause of rectifying global trade imbalances will not touch the public enough to attract the donations that are necessary to keep NGOs afloat.
Tencent, China’s largest Internet company, is now using the same strategy to compete with Alibaba, with both companies offering high rates of return – often 6-7% annually – to attract as many investors as possible.
As a result, a large number of nonbank financial institutions – such as wealth-management companies and online financial-services providers – are now using promises of high returns to attract small investors.
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