A. The Foreign Investment Law has yet to be passed and the debate so far is healthy.
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The establishment of a Foreign Investment Law has been bogged down over disagreements about the terms and conditions for foreign investors.
Last year, after much wrangling, it eventually passed a foreign-investment law to attract them.
Myanmar has begun opening up to increased foreign investment and a new law passed late last year after months of debate has codified some of the rules for foreign capital.
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To cap it all, a new investment law lets foreign contractors bring in labour from abroad but export all profits.
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Other investors are still wary of diving into the swiftly reforming country of about 60m people, where a law on foreign direct investment is now stumbling towards approval.
Even in Ethiopia, one of the prime recipients of land-based foreign direct investment in Africa, the law does not allow private ownership of the land, which belongs to the State.
Venezuela was once a growing economy that exported food, welcomed and rewarded foreign investment, and maintained the rule of law.
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In an attempt to attract foreign investment, in March Libya approved a law that will introduce Sharia-compliant banking and stimulate the country's private sector, according to the ruling National Transitional Council.
But, China continues to welcome and encourage foreign investment, and there are many accounting, law firms and other experts that can help navigate the bureaucracy.
There's a lesson here: Don't count on U.S. law to bail you out of a foreign investment.
But he foresees a "revolution" in the Indian industry, including an influx of foreign investment in research and clinical testing--if the Indian government implements the patent law.
It reintroduced the antique land-ownership law despite knowing that its flawed design would almost halt much-needed foreign investment.
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The "spaghetti bowl" of UK tax law is to be simplified to cut the burden on business and attract foreign investment, George Osborne has said.
Critics claim that the oil law will mark the end of a cautious opening of Venezuela's nationalised oil industry to foreign investment.
Mainstream Islamists, such as the economy minister, Abdullah Shamia, speak not of imposing Islamic law but of respecting contracts with foreign oil companies, diversifying the economy away from oil dependence, wooing investment, and regulating the labour market to block a new influx of migrant workers seeking passage to Europe.
Opposition parties have disrupted most of the proceedings in the past few sessions of Parliament over issues such as corruption, derailing the government's plans to bring in legislation to ease foreign-investment rules in sectors like pensions and insurance and amend a more-than-a-century-old law on acquiring land for industrial and infrastructure projects.
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