Total direct foreign investment from 1991 through 1996 was $831 million.
A. I think foreign direct investment will go up a lot.
The same is true for foreign direct investment in general.
China has much foreign direct investment in it from other countries.
But direct investment by Japanese companies will be very important.
Foreign direct investment fell last year to $319 million, from $1.8 billion in early 2001.
For the first quarter, foreign direct investment was down 48 percent from the period a year earlier.
Foreign direct investment will go on growing, and probably faster than trade.
This was the first such direct investment in that nation by a French food company.
At the same time, foreign direct investment declined 9.2 percent to $18.6 billion.
The same applies to direct foreign investment in Russia.
He suggested instead that Japan's official aid be used to make those countries more attractive to direct investment from Japanese companies.
South Korea imposed a 10 percent ceiling when it first opened the stock market to direct foreign investment in 1992.
It will roughly double the number of US jobs tied to direct investment by China.
He used this dual position to direct industrial investment to Gaeltacht areas.
But he added that the Forbes trust "directs investment into the more entrepreneurial companies, and over a sustained period that's probably a good thing."
We should beware of directing investment and interfering in companies' decisions on investment.
It is also a question of legal certainty, and an important signal for directing new investment.
The primary criticism against socialism is that it could not direct investment efficiently without speculation in financial markets.
Lange admitted in several places that socialist officials would direct investment arbitrarily.