Foreign direct investments

A.T. Kearney s Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index. 

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The Chinese chemical market is attracting huge foreign direct investments. Between 1993 and 2003, investment projects amounted to around EUR 20 billion of contractual FDI, with Bayer, BASF, Shell, and BP the four biggest investors. Over the last ten years, five percent of foreign direct investment was into the chemicals sector. Multinational corporations (MNCs) tend to enter via joint ventures partially driven by the need for feedstock access, but wholly foreign-owned enterprises will become more common following China s membership of the WTO. 

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A continued upward trend in sales abroad in both food and industrial markets appears promising. Several firms are expanding their foreign direct investments in com refining operations and participating in joint ventures with foreign firms. 

GNP has grown more slowly due to the impact of foreign direct investment. However as the Kyoto Protocol applies to emissions within the national territory GDP is the most accurate indicator against which to mark performance. 

The treatment of new entrants was particularly important from the perspective of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, who wanted to ensure that the introduction of the ETS would not act as a barrier to future foreign direct investment. The Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources (responsible for energy policy) was also keen to ensure that the ETS was implemented in a manner that did not obstruct the ongoing liberalisation of the electricity market and the need for new generating capacity caused by concerns over generation adequacy. Therefore the consultants recommendation that new entrants buy all of their allowances on the market,... 

Foreign direct investment in chemicals and allied products in the United States has increased more than sixfold from 1980 through 1994, as shown in Table 9.12. New investment outlays by foreign companies amounted to about 80 billion in 1996 but declined to about 70 billion in 1997. European companies in the United Kingdom and Germany are the heaviest investors. Japanese... 

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The final two chapters in this part are broader, and both also reflect some West African experiences. Chapter 6 asks an important question What can help to bring more foreign direct investment to the pharmaceutical industry in Africa, with particular reference to Indian... 

Pharmaceutical production was already taking place before the advent of independence in 1963, as Chapter 1 described. The early firms were mainly foreign direct investments (FDI). The newly independent country then continued to implement policies of ISI that had started during the colonial period. 

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