An investment facilitation body is Invest Australia. Most countries
have agencies whose function it is to facilitate investment,
particularly, but not exclusively foreign investment.
I'm trying to find discussions about investment facilitation as a
method of discovery of problems with regulatory processes - in any
developed country. I am seeking both the references (preferably with
urls) and relevant quotes. An example of such a quote - though it is
applied to export faciliation rather than investment facilitation is
as follows.
[W]hen export performance was deemed satisfactory, policies were left
unaltered; when however it appeared that export growth was faltering,
changes were instituted until satisfactory performance was again
observed. . . . The means chosen [to encourage exports] varied
pragmatically in accordance with the degree of success then being
achieved. . . . As those urged to export protested at various
disabilities or disadvantages, means were found for removing such
disadvantages; when exports lagged, new incentives were introduced or
the value of existing incentives increased in order to spur export
performance. Krueger, A., Krueger, A. O., 1979. The Developmental
Role of the Foreign Sector and Aid, Harvard University Press,
Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
