These could also help attract foreign capital and narrow the country's current-account gap.
The eagerness to attract foreign capital to the project fits with the desperate need for Russia to boost its credibility with international business.
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Ratings provide a proxy measure of country risk and demonstrate a country's commitment to transparency, both of which should help attract foreign capital.
With Libya's youthful population set to double in the next 25 years, job-creation is a driving force behind the campaign to attract foreign capital.
India also needs to keep rates high enough to attract foreign capital and offset the current-account deficit, in order to keep the rupee from weakening and making inflation worse.
That has not stopped Chinese Internet companies from adopting byzantine corporate structures to allow stockmarket listings overseas, in Hong Kong or on America's Nasdaq, designed to attract foreign capital.
India also needs to keep rates high enough to attract foreign capital and offset the current account deficit, in order to keep the rupee from weakening and making inflation worse.
Once, Chinese leaders worked hard to attract foreign capital.
While the opportunities are immense and varied, President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his team will have to work to create a condusive investment climate in order to attract foreign capital and investors.
At a time when Washington should be pursuing policies designed to attract foreign investment capital to American shores, politicians seem intent on driving it away.
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For years, the strength of the dollar and the buoyancy of asset prices in America helped to attract inflows of foreign capital.
Higher interest rates are likely to attract yet more foreign capital, fuelling domestic liquidity, and so perversely undermining the impact of higher rates.
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India has been looking to attract more long-term foreign capital to lift economic growth from a decade low of 5%.
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Firms are being forced to turn to the bond market and thanks to this year's financial deregulation compete with foreign firms to attract capital.
Before you can implement wizzy state-of-the-art technologies at Skolkovo and hope to attract more foreign investors to a revitalized financial capital, you have to have a functional infrastructure that is not deformed by corruption.
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The government recently has simplified rules governing foreign investments in local bonds to attract capital flows and narrow its current-account deficit.
Since September, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government has taken several measures such as easing foreign investment restrictions in retail and civil aviation to attract overseas capital and boost growth.
It eased foreign investment restrictions in retail and civil aviation to attract overseas capital, and set up a panel of ministers to clear large industrial projects caught in bureaucratic red-tape.
The first initial practical efforts have already been taken, foreign companies can hopefully be able to make loans and attract capital in the Russian ruble market starting this year.
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