Sentences with phrase «attracted foreign»

The sectors which attracted foreign investment in 2013 are service, automobiles, pharmaceuticals, construction development, computer software and hardware, telecommunications, chemicals and power.

If the UK suddenly changes its law, this creates a paradox to the very thing that attracted foreign investors in the first instance — the UK having a stable regulatory and legal system.

The summit attracted foreign and local investors including; the Consul General of the Embassy of France in Nigeria, Laurent Polonceaux; the Nigerian Director of a French Group known as Proparco, Olivier Follin; the Irish Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Sean Hoy, as well as director of an Irish organisation, Sustainable Food Systems Ireland.

In spite of the resistance from conservatives, Deng supported policies that attracted foreign investment, privatized agriculture, and boosted private entrepreneurship.

Other Korean firms have attracted foreign investors and pushed into Europe, such as Dr.Jart +, partly backed by Estee Lauder and whose products are sold in the beauty chain Sephora.

Past Malaysian governments largely succeeded in lifting the country from poverty and attracting foreign investors, part of a long - term goal of reaching developed world income status.

Historically, the U.S. has had to do very little to attract foreign tourists and their money.

Yousuf Mohamed Al - Jaida, the CEO of the Qatar Financial Center, a business and financial center located in Doha, told CNBC Friday that the country has moved to attract foreign investment by making it easier to get business visas and buy real estate.

New York, in particular, attracts foreign visitors, and that can be attractive to Under Armour — which still generates a vast majority of sales in the North American market but wants to do more business abroad.

Back in the 1980's, the government of Ireland went overboard trying to attract foreign investment in their country.

Somalia has been at war for decades and until the last few years it has struggled to attract foreign investment.

If international regulators want to stamp out tax avoidance, Lew said countries with «very low» rates in hopes of attracting foreign companies are «part of the problem.»

«We don't just work to attract foreign tourists... but above all to improve local people's quality of life.»

In line with Li's statements, the State Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs released a list of 22 new policies to attract foreign investment in the new year.

Even with the recent jump in capital, the success of the program and others that attract foreign entrepreneurs, is causing a shortage in funding.

To attract foreign manufacturers, the authorities provide plant buildings at nineteen industrial parks scattered around Singapore.

Argentine President Mauricio Macri has imposed unpopular austerity measures in an attempt to stimulate a stalled economy and attract foreign investment.

The coffee - and - beverage - service market in the United States was consolidating, even attracting foreign competition.

Perhaps the most significant barrier to attracting foreign capital, not to mention the region's broader economic development, is the inadequacy of transportation infrastructure in the Russian Far East.

Lacking in domestic savings and wanting to grow, the US must import surplus savings from abroad, and run massive current - account deficits to attract the foreign capital.

In 2016, the Far East Federal District's trade with China amounted to $ 6 billion, accounting for 25 percent of its foreign trade volumes.47 In a meeting with the vice premier of China's State Council, Putin stated that Chinese investment in the Russian Far East has exceeded $ 3 billion since 2015.48 According to Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East Alexander Galushka, as of November 2017, the number of projects in the PDAs and the Free Port of Vladivostok involving Chinese capital tripled in the past year to twenty - eight projects worth $ 4 billion that account for 85 percent of foreign investment attracted to the Russian Far East since 2015.49 At the Third Eastern Economic Forum in September 2017 — an annual conference to attract foreign investment to the Russian Far East — Putin even used these investment figures in jest to encourage Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to increase Japanese investments in the Russian Far East.50

Governments may seek to attract foreign investment yet also discriminate against it.

The event concluded with a roundtable conversation between Schneider - Ammann and various speakers discussing the promotion of the blockchain ecosystem in Zug, as well as challenges for creating jobs and retaining and attracting foreign talent.

While the program has many supporters who argue it attracts foreign capital and creates jobs at no U.S. taxpayer cost, congressional overseers and Homeland Security have raised sharp concerns.

«Based on the innovative model from Start - Up Chile, Start - Up Chile launched with a mandate to attract foreign entrepreneurs to the local consumer market and foment domestic entrepreneurial culture»

And when they ran trade deficits or undertook military campaigns, central banks restricted the supply of domestic credit to raise interest rates and attract foreign financial inflows.

Economist and White House aide Peter Navarro has argued that Trump's economic policies will somehow both reduce the trade deficit and attract foreign investment.

A weaker dollar may also be necessary to attract foreign buyers.

Mr. Russell said higher taxes on dividends or capital gains would run counter to the government's pledge of boosting innovation by attracting foreign capital and talent.

Here, particularly in southern European economies, governments are actively looking to attract foreign buyers to help stimulate ailing mainstream property markets and boost economic growth.»

The government intends to attract foreign investors from countries like Poland, Denmark and Norway, as -LSB-...]

As much as Canada is a leading destination for international study, the fact is that China has already overtaken Canada in attracting foreign students, and very few Canadians avail of opportunities to study in China.

In terms of attracting foreign investments, India continues to face competition from other emerging economies with prospects for strong growth, including South Africa and Nigeria.

the solution lies in the scaling systems of Blockchain technology, and China's largest retailer JD.com at the end of February announced the launch of a business incubator for start - UPS to attract foreign projects Blockchain.

The United Arab Emirates pioneered the growth of GCC free - trade zones, which are helping to attract foreign direct investment.

A massive «movie metropolis» billed as China's answer to Hollywood opened on Saturday, aiming to boost the domestic film industry and attract foreign producers.

Macri's mission to make Argentina great again has already led him to abolish currency controls, return to world credit markets, attract foreign investors and set in motion a plan to reduce the fiscal deficit.

Since the 1960s the U.S. Government itself has encouraged American banks to set up branches in Caribbean hot - money centers and more distant islands as a means of attracting foreign money into the dollar.

The group attracts foreign volunteers from the US, Great Britain, and other Western countries, Reuters reports.

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He added that, «it is also an incentive to attract foreign direct investment to boost the Nigerian economy.»

At the same time, it has recently been argued that China's objectives in concluding IIAs should be shifting from attracting foreign investors into China to protecting the interests of Chinese companies intensifying their own global investment activities.

«We are mindful of the need to attract foreign investment, and public private investment, especially in the area of provision of infrastructure.

Delivering the keynote address at the 2nd edition of the UK - Ghana Investment Summit, organized by the UK - Ghana Chamber of Commerce, on Tuesday, 17th April, 2018, President Akufo - Addo told the gathering that his government is keen on establishing a business - friendly economy to attract foreign direct investments to exploit Ghana's great potential on mutually satisfactory terms.

It does not need to be overstated that Nigeria can ill afford the reputation of a lawless destination at a time the President Buhari Administration is almost recording a breakthrough in its valiant effort to attract foreign direct investment into the country.

He said government was making effort to attract foreign investors into the economy, noting that steady power remained a prerequisite for growth and development.

China is famous for attracting foreign direct investment; however, recent research indicates that the tide is turning.

The Welsh National Party (Plaid Cymru) has made a commitment to reducing tourism VAT «to make holidays at home more affordable and attract foreign tourists, creating up to 7,000 jobs».

He noted that what the militants and leaders from the Niger Delta should be concerned about now was how to attract foreign investors to build factories in the region to create employment for the ex-militants, youths and graduates.

Director - General of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), Mr. Frank Nweke Jr. told THISDAY that the theme of this year's summit, «Attracting Foreign Direct Investment through Global Partnerships», «is the heart of President Jonathan's transformation agenda and vision to grow Nigeria into one of the 20 largest economies in the world by 2020.»