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In fact, foreign
direct
investment in Africa has been on the rise since the early 2000’s, increasing fivefold in 2000-2010.
Foreign
direct
investment (FDI), for example, can aid growth, because it is long term, involves investment in the real economy, and is often accompanied by technology or skill transfers.
Moreover, the transfer and diffusion of technology has been facilitated greatly over the last few decades by increased foreign
direct
investment, the information revolution, which has facilitated access to knowledge, increased trade, and the globalization of financial markets.
The Islamic State has exploited long-standing Sunni grievances to challenge the territorial integrity of Iraq and Syria, creating a strategic vacuum in which Russia, Iran, the United States, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia now vie for power, sometimes through proxies, but increasingly through
direct
military intervention.
This is a
direct
result of the international production network based on each economy’s comparative advantage.
Several African countries are already experiencing reduced rainfall, soil degradation, and the depletion of precious natural resources, which has a
direct
impact on the livelihoods of two-thirds of Sub-Saharan Africans.
Although China remains far less open to foreign
direct
investment than most advanced economies, the OECD’s composite indicator shows that there has been continuous, albeit sluggish, improvement.
But what would an appreciation of the renminbi do to China’s inward and outward foreign
direct
investment (FDI)?
Berkeleyside, in Berkeley, California, recently raised $1 million from its readers through a
direct
public offering.
As long as the Greek people have to be asked to accept one austerity package after another, they might wonder when they will have a
direct
say on this matter.
As its behavior since 2014 suggests, the Russian government considers the post-revolutionary status quo in Ukraine – in particular, the country’s headlong rush toward the West – a
direct
threat to Russian national security.
At a time when a slowing economy is creating greater uncertainty for China, it cannot afford to provoke tensions with the US over anything that is not in its
direct
interests, such as its territorial claims in the South China Sea.
The perpetrators are indifferent as to whether their victims, both
direct
and indirect, are Muslim or non-Muslim; their goal is to terrorize and eventually to destroy a way of life in the name of a nebulous Dar-al-Islam, a utopian entity that will supposedly solve all of life’s problems.
Every percentage-point fall in growth has
direct
social consequences, whether on nutrition levels, infant mortality, or school attendance.
In China, for all of its massive problems, things continue to go right not least because of huge inflows of foreign
direct
investment and the imminent benefits of WTO membership.
In addition to
direct
help for small farms, donors should provide more help for the research and development needed to identify new high-yielding seed varieties, especially to breed plants that can withstand temporary flooding, excess nitrogen, salty soils, crop pests, and other challenges to sustainable food production.
Of course, no one wants a return to Cold War-style confrontation, but Russia’s behavior poses a
direct
challenge to European and international order.
Direct
talks should concentrate on two parallel tracks.
If he succeeds – Syria’s chemical weapons are destroyed, a peace conference ends the civil war, a transitional government takes power, and the US and Iran launch
direct
negotiations about Iran’s nuclear program and regional stability in the Middle East – he will truly deserve his Nobel Peace Prize.
If they now want to modify the social contract (and assuming that
direct
democracy remains impossible), change ought to be based on a clear, historically grounded sense of which innovations European democracy might really need – and of whom Europeans really trust to hold power.
But as China’s society progressively emancipated itself from
direct
state control – with the notable exception of sectors viewed by the CPC as crucial to maintaining its monopoly on power – citizens increasingly appealed to the law for protection against arbitrary administrative interference and to limit the bureaucracy’s discretionary powers.
It would increase confidence in Ireland and allow us to increase the existing flow of inward foreign
direct
investment.
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.
But the recent tsunami of Venezuelan refugees is causing massive problems for Colombia, beyond the
direct
costs of policing, ensuring urgent medical care, and providing other services.
New and innovative industrial-development strategies, as well as carefully tailored measures to attract foreign
direct
investment, must be introduced.
This money is mixed with knowhow as foreign
direct
investment, and the return to both is more like 9%, compared to the 4% or less paid to lenders.
Although the ECB does not have to deal with
direct
legislative oversight, it is now clear that there are members of its governing board who would oppose higher interest rates, and that there is political pressure from government leaders and finance ministers to keep rates low.
And in recent years, the EU has at least started to reduce the market support prices of some foods, while compensating farmers by making
direct
income supplement payments instead.
Indeed, the rules have been carefully crafted to prohibit such adventures, while allowing Japan to work more closely with the US on
direct
threats to Japanese security.
China and Russia have welcomed news of the
direct
talks, but Japan is uneasy.
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