They built economic development structures to attract foreign direct investment, streamlined bureaucracy, then traded land and labor for investment.

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Suzhou city officials saw the value in developing the fertile ground needed to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), but they could not do it alone.

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With an estimated 40% unemployment rate, Swaziland's need to increase the number and size of small and medium enterprises and attract foreign direct investment is acute.

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Mr. Kenny is likely hoping to attract foreign direct investment with his upbeat comments but the truth is that big corporations rely on a lot more than magazine articles when making important investment decisions.

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Presumably, countries that attract more foreign direct investment suffer less than those that have a greater amount of footloose portfolio investment or short-term bank lending.

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Another is its inability to attract significant foreign direct investment.

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But Turkey has not been able to play a similar role for Europe because it has never managed to attract the heavy foreign direct investment that would be needed.

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China can go on doing this for some time ahead without worrying about any reform of its unproductive state sector and public finances, because it will continue to attract huge dollops of foreign direct investment(FDI).

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He reiterated the government will stick to its fiscal correction roadmap--of reducing the fiscal deficit to 3% of gross domestic product by March 2017--and that it was also reviewing its foreign direct investment policy to attract more overseas investors.

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