If they are successful, China may earn returns on its investment abroad as well as at home.
This might discourage investment abroad in normal times, but it will not stop capital flight in a crisis.
Foreign investment in the U.S. dwarfed American investment abroad by the biggest margin on record for much of last year.
For example, it wants to limit funds to a certain size, and to keep a lid on their investment abroad.
The slow and bumpy recovery of the global economy, weak global demand and elevated risks related to regulatory policy changes continue to reinforce the wait-and-see attitude of many multinationals toward investment abroad, UNCTAD said in a statement on their website yesterday.
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Because of restrictions on investment abroad and a dearth of high-yielding instruments at home, such money as has accumulated has been invested mainly in the domestic banking system, where it earns a rate of return far too low to meet the government's pension promises.
Portfolio investment and foreign direct investment by Indians abroad has tailed off sharply since 1996 (see chart).
As the weak-dollar trend embedded itself during the Fed's ultralow interest rate days in 2003--05, corporate investment plans shifted abroad.
Following criticism that too much regulation is driving foreign investment to markets abroad, the U.S. Treasury Department is drafting a plan to streamline regulations and boost competitiveness.
People would avoid downtowns, visitors would stay home, children would be sent abroad, investment flows would cease.
That last point raises another free-lunch possibility: If we would lower the U.S. tax on foreign source earnings, much of them would flow back to the U.S. for investment here rather than abroad.
With political stability, a fair infrastructure and a large tourist potential, it could expect investment and other support from abroad.
The first five relate specifically to the ongoing housing collapse that is driving the whole economic and investment outlook, here and abroad.
Agreed, a current-account deficit is not necessarily bad: an economy may be borrowing from abroad to finance investment that will lift future growth.
It is not a bail-out fund, he insists, because independent experts from abroad would make the investment decisions.
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But it may decide case by case to move some of its research abroad, leaving its investment in Britain to wither on the vine.
That has required us to make up the difference between our national investment and national saving by borrowing abroad in the form of the capital inflow that finances our trade deficit.
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If enacted, the Grassley bill will encourage companies to place more engineers and other skilled foreign nationals abroad, where more investment dollars will flow, which will not be good for U.S.-born professionals in the technology field.
Mr Lee argues instead that America's slow growth will be the consequence of its terrible savings rate on the grounds that America cannot borrow from abroad to fund its investment for ever, and investment drives the growth rate.
It relies on Western investment and markets, and seeks stability abroad.
Eager to curry favor with the next batch of global leaders, ensuring a future supply of investment banking fees, capital to expand abroad is now increasingly available from international sources.
In particular, large budget deficits and growing debt would reduce national saving, leading to higher interest rates, more borrowing from abroad, and less domestic investment which in turn would lower income growth in the United States.
To cap it all, a new investment law lets foreign contractors bring in labour from abroad but export all profits.
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The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) sought to ensure that companies investing abroad would receive compensation if they were nationalised as well as equal treatment with domestic firms.
Meanwhile, remittances from abroad, self-employment, tourism, foreign investment and the informal economy have lifted the incomes of a large group of Cubans.
That would promote job creating investment in the U.S. at home and from abroad, as investors would know they would not suffer losses from a declining dollar.
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But the group's reputation would benefit if it were to seek a quotation abroad and follow the rules of those countries whose investment it is hoping to attract.
Power may shift in two other directions: abroad and, to a lesser extent, to boutique investment banks.
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