Medium-sized foreign firms that rushed to create a beach-head in China may consider going offshore again.

ECONOMIST: Pharmaceuticals in China

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.

FORBES: Swaziland

Executive Branch slush-fund for medium-term loans to foreign governments.

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To many bankers, particularly foreigners who have been keeping an eye out for opportunities in Japan, the government's inclination to obstruct reform has been sharply illustrated by last week's order by the Financial Services Agency, a regulator, to Shinsei, a bank now owned by foreign investors, to increase lending to small and medium-sized companies.

ECONOMIST: Japan's banks

Sri Lanka is pursuing a combination of government directed policies, private investment, both foreign and domestic, to spur growth in disadvantaged areas, develop small and medium enterprises, and increase agricultural productivity.

FORBES: Sri Lanka

In the medium term these seem certain to involve a greater role for markets and foreign investment in the state-dominated economy.

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And though foreign observers dismiss them as mindless entertainment for children or the uneducated, Natume says they can be as sophisticated a medium as film or literature.

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