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climate factors as important compared with respondents based at the companies’ global headquarters (figure 1C.6). In particular, these are transparency and predictability in the conduct of public agencies, investment protection guarantees, investment incentives, and having bilateral investment treaties.
Notes 1. This broader definition and use of FDI typology will be further elaborated in a forthcoming World Bank Group publication. 2. In this chapter, “efficiency-seeking” investors are those respondents who said that lowering production costs and establishing a new base for exports was one of their motivations for setting up an affiliate in a developing country. 3. Echandi, Krajcovicova, and Qiang (2015) provide a literature review of local content requirements including studies from UNCTAD (2007), Moran (1998, 2006, 2011), Hufbauer and others (2013).
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