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posted on Sunday, 29 May 2011 by Site Editor Comments Off

Rolf Gohdes is an independent economic and business consultant. He spent the last 7 years in Berlin with Germany Trade & Invest leading an intercultural team charged with attracting foreign investors for the chemicals and healthcare sectors. …

posted on Sunday, 29 May 2011 by Site Editor Comments Off

Enda Connolly has accumulated more than twenty years’ senior management experience and success in leading business critical functions for IDA Ireland, both at home and overseas. He has an in-depth understanding of strategic …

posted on Friday, 12 Nov 2010 by Alessandro Ravanetti 1 Comment

The Foreign Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs) of six countries from the south east of Europe (Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia) have created last year a network to improve the investment opportunities for the region …

posted on Saturday, 30 Oct 2010 by John Hanna 1 Comment

Ireland shows its determination to drive the value end of its economy by supporting its new crop of tech start up businesses. As reported in Silicon Republic, twenty five Irish technology firms will next week meet with representatives of over 85 venture capitalists and other investors from …

posted on Thursday, 28 Oct 2010 by Alessandro Ravanetti 1 Comment

New investments worth a total of US$9.7 billion have been acquired in the last three months from July when the efforts to improve the country’s investment promotion started, the Taiwan’s Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) said.

Over …

posted on Monday, 25 Oct 2010 by Alessandro Ravanetti Comments Off

Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK), a department of the Hong Kong Government responsible for foreign direct investment, will host a business conference on October 27 in New Delhi, India, with the collaboration of the Guangdong’s government, to show the …

posted on Friday, 8 Oct 2010 by Site Editor Comments Off

APIU Croatia to close

It’s hard to believe!  But Croatia’s government has decided to close TIPA/APIU, the trade and investment promotion agency after just a few years of activities.  If the rumours are true …

posted on Saturday, 2 Oct 2010 by John Hanna Comments Off

IDA Ireland is undoubtedly amongst the most sopisticated and professional of IPAs in the business. Their experience comes from 40+ years in the business of investment attraction. They know how to work their huge American diaspora. their track rcord in FDI …

posted on Friday, 1 Oct 2010 by Christina Knutsson Comments Off

Just in the last few weeks we’ve seen changes emerging from latin American IPAs. After four years of life, last month the government of Argentina buried its national IPA ProsperAr. Its director Beatriz Nofal found out she lost her job by reading the change of decree in the Boletin …

posted on Saturday, 26 Jun 2010 by Ruben Anton Comments Off

June 26, 2010. Both FDI registered and disbursed capital decreased in June compared to May, however, in the past six months, FDI disbursement showed an increase of 5.9 percent against the same period last year.

Following the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) report, …