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Still, an investment-grade rating is handy if, like India, you run a current-account deficit and hope to attract foreigners to help finance your vast infrastructure needs over the next decade.
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Seen originally as a huge inward investment project, it was built with foreign money and government funds in the hope of creating a world-standard private hospital to be used by wealthy foreigners.
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More importantly, locals hope that Nagoya's new international airport will ease foreigners' access (tourist magnets such as Kyoto, Nara and Kanazawa are fairly easy to reach from Nagoya), without having to pass twice through Tokyo and its Narita airport.
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