will encourage both investment in new capacity and greater efficiency of both production and consumption. The overall …

and regulatory functions, and maintains tight control over the sector’s infrastructure and over information flows within … commerciales et de réglementation, et contrôle étroitement aussi bien l’infrastructure que les flux d’information à l’intérieur du …

decade, alongside a successful strategy of attracting foreign investment. Broad statistical measures show no signs of …

. For the four countries that are members of the OECD (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovak Republic), accession …

development. Weaknesses in the regulatory framework, infrastructure bottlenecks and poor governance continue to weigh down on … investment. Policies have been put in place to address these problems, but much remains to be done. An important recent … initiative is the enactment of the Investment Law in 2007, which strengthened the foreign investment regime. This paper argues …

on capital deepening and technical progress by examining the impact of regulations on investment (domestic and foreign …-competitive reforms tend to increase both investment and multifactor productivity and, through both these channels, they can lead to …

drivers of prosperity – investment, skills and ideas – to New Zealand. The reforms of the 1980s and 1990s laid much of the … paper, namely international trade, the business climate for domestic and foreign investment, public sector efficiency …, infrastructure, innovation and natural resources management. This paper also evaluates the recently legislated emissions trading …