Second, institute laws that protect foreign investments and guarantee the repatriation of profits and dividends.
Still, Buffett said it was one of about five foreign investments he has made recently.
Any foreign investments of more than 12 billion rupees must get this committee's approval.
Low taxes, cheap labor, good schools and an aggressive scheme to attract foreign investments.
Prosecutor Rakesh Somaia said Dickinson promised returns to investors by trading in foreign investments.
Mantega said recently that they were not considering more taxes on foreign investments in fixed income.
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Foreign investments contribute a mere 8% of group revenues, barely more than they did in 1996.
And 80 percent of all foreign investments that were directed to Central Asia ended up in Kazakhstan.
"With the dollar still weak, many foreign investments get a boost when rendered in dollars, " says Brown.
Business confidence has floundered, with foreign investments declining about 40 percent in the first half of 2012.
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Foreign investments are classified into two categories: foreign direct investment ( FDI) and foreign portfolio investment (FPI).
One is to modernize China's economy, for which it needs foreign investments, foreign markets -- and regional stability.
The effect of the downgrade on interest rates and foreign investments in Treasuries is also uncertain as of yet.
Making things worse is a highly government controlled telecom industry that prevents foreign investments, particularly for wireless and broadband services.
One of the measures is another increase to the financial transactions tax on foreign investments into fixed income, Barros reports.
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Under its procedures, lower-level career officials in the departments study proposed foreign investments to see whether they pose any security threats.
The government recently has simplified rules governing foreign investments in local bonds to attract capital flows and narrow its current-account deficit.
Diplomatic relations between Vietnam and the United States had normalized, and direct foreign investments were beginning to drive economic growth there.
But it will be hard to wean politicians off the headlines and pictures generated by the announcement of big foreign investments.
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City financial firms, happy to channel Libya's foreign investments now, want to develop financial services in the North African country too.
Since September, the government has eased foreign investment restrictions in key sectors such as retail and civil aviation to attract foreign investments.
Generally, these foreign investments will become saturated when all the tax incentives are exhausted and the attractive local labor progressively becomes expensive.
Of this, 4% is used domestically, and 6% goes into foreign investments.
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Without getting too snarky, Ukraine has a track record in terms of effectively managing large-scale foreign investments that is decidedly less than perfect.
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For years, many Americans have used the bank secrecy laws of countries such as Switzerland or Liechtenstein to avoid paying taxes on foreign investments.
These foreign investments in turn help to finance a variety of products essential to economic growth, such as small business loans and home mortgages.
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Since 2006, when new investment laws came into play for China investing, very few, if any, wholly-owned foreign investments have been approved for listings.
"The North Korean officials who came to see South Korean businessmen were asking serious questions on how they should approach attracting foreign investments, " he recalls.
"We view foreign investments as a source of technology, finance and means of creating gainful employment in the country, " Trade Minister Anand Sharma said Monday.
Strange as it sounds, their goal is to raise the effective tax rate on foreign investments by U.S.-based multinationals to zero, or close to it.
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