The best Scottish operations are more likely to attract foreign investment, and get bought over.
Some of the changes are seen as a way of trying to attract foreign investment.
Brazil is trying to modernise these industries, partly by using tax breaks to attract foreign investment.
The Indian government has tried to attract foreign investment by loosening its grip on the retail sector.
When it privatised the line in 1999, the government of President Alberto Fujimori was eager to attract foreign investment.
Interior Minister Socrates Hasikos said his ministry is looking to cut red tape in order to attract foreign investment.
The man who pleads Taiwan's case to the world says his homeland's ability to attract foreign investment is crucial.
And China is able to maintain its export-led economic growth, generating jobs for its growing urban population, while continuing to attract foreign investment.
But instead, the unit believes that other Chinese cities are likely to attract foreign investment, to the detriment of Hong Kong.
In one way, as Mr Wolf acknowledges, it militates against it, by suppressing regulatory competition as when states compete to attract foreign investment.
But without the ability to compete on interest rates, says Mr Sheng, China will anyway find it hard to attract foreign investment in banking.
To attract foreign investment and help foreign firms avoid garment-export taxes, Bangladesh's government set up special economic zones in Dhaka, the capital, and surrounding cities.
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At a time when Washington should be pursuing policies designed to attract foreign investment capital to American shores, politicians seem intent on driving it away.
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Prompted by fears that growth may slow further, the government has announced reforms to attract foreign investment in key sectors over the past few weeks.
The report added that many mineral-rich countries needed "urgently to review the design of their tax regimes", which were designed to attract foreign investment when commodity prices were low.
In an attempt to attract foreign investment, in March Libya approved a law that will introduce Sharia-compliant banking and stimulate the country's private sector, according to the ruling National Transitional Council.
Since September, the government has acted aggressively to attract foreign investment and improve its weak financial position, raising hopes that such steps would allow the RBI space to ease monetary policy and revive economic growth.
His priorities now are to attract foreign investment and increase trade while defending his army against allegations of war crimes committed during the final stages of the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
And Russia has a strong incentive to rewrite the rules, since it agreed to generous terms for projects like Sakhalin back in the 1990s, when it had no money to develop its resources itself and was desperate to attract foreign investment.
He's the former president of Iran, one of the wealthiest men in Iran and a cleric who was one of the architects of the Islamic Revolution, so it was pretty surprising when he ran on a pretty Reformist platform pledging to open a new chapter of detente with the United States and to attract foreign investment and relax social restrictions on the youth.
They built economic development structures to attract foreign direct investment, streamlined bureaucracy, then traded land and labor for investment.
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Nor is the deal likely to attract much foreign investment to South Africa.
The scandal comes at a time when Peru plans to attract more foreign investment through Free Trade Agreements (FTA) and International Tourism projects.
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.
In a further attempt to attract more foreign investment into the markets, Mr Gou said the regulator was also considering raising the investment cap on individual QFIIs.
It's difficult to guess how the political scene will pan out, but definitely Prime Minister Mahathir or whoever takes over will want to still attract foreign investment.
Countries that already have relatively open economies, such as Singapore and Thailand, view the grouping as a means to increase the competitiveness of their exports, and so to attract more foreign investment.
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.
Colombia has lobbied hard for passage of this agreement because it would make permanent the trade preferences they now have, and to attract long term foreign investment.
Most business leaders agree with the prime minister that the UK needs to retain its place in that market, especially if it wants to continue to attract so much foreign investment.
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