While FDI numbers increased in the Middle East and Africa in 2011, capital investment was down slightly and job creation only showed a slight rise.
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Growth in Asia-Pacific FDI hampered by disaster-stricken 2011
Countries including India, Indonesia, Pakistan and South Korea experienced significant growth in FDI in 2011, but both Japan and Thailand suffered on the back of natural disasters.
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Setting the benchmark for biotechnology
An fDiIntelligence evaluation into biotech FDI between 2003 and 2011 shows that although the US is the dominant country in the sector, Asian cities lead in attractiveness for projects, competing on both quality and cost.
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Poland on the rise in shared service centre rankings
fDi Markets' shared service centre rankings show that Poland is the industry's rising star. India remains the leading destination for SSC projects, though it has experienced a dip in recent years.
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FDI continues its march to recovery: 2011 greenfield data
fDi's annual greenfield investment figures are in for 2011, revealing that global FDI continued its slow but steady recovery in most regions of the world last year.
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US corporates show strong appetitie for investing in emerging markets
A study shows that US corporate interest in emerging markets has continued to increase in the first half of 2011, with US-based companies completing the most merger and acquisition deals with emerging and high-growth market companies.
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Emerging economies help global FDI inflows to a gradual recovery
Figures from the UN Conference on Trade and Development suggest that global FDI inflows are making a gradual recovery, with developing economies accounting for more than half of global FDI inflows in the first half of 2011.
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Healthy growth of international tourism in first half of 2011
All world regions have seen sustained demand in international tourism, with the exception of the Middle East and north Africa.
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BRICs to make up 40% of world GDP
Brazil, Russia, India and China are set to overtake the developed economies of the G-7 in terms of gross domestic product.
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/ Kazakhstan
Astana remains central to Kazakhstan's development, says city's mayor
Imangali Tasmagambetov, the mayor of Astana, tells fDiwhy the new capital is vital to the development of Kazakhstan and what incentives it can offer investors
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