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.FDI to the foreign investor owns part or all investment in the project on this addition to its participation in the management of the project with the national investor in the case of joint investment or total control of management and organization in the case of absolute ownership of the project investment.




.Known as the World Trade Organization and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development foreign direct investment as a stable investment activity in a given country (country of origin), which earned or possessed assets in another country (the host country or the future), so as to the conduct of these investments, , which we define foreign investment as investment, which leads to a long-term relationship and reflects the benefit and permanent control to the foreign investor or parent company in a foreign branch based in a host other than those which belong to nationality, and FDI is, in fact, the ownership of equity capital and reinvested earnings and loans from the parent company's subsidiaries in the host country as long as they are conducive to the control of the assets used in production abroad.
.Due importance of FDI for its services to economic development and alleviate the burdens and contribute to the generation of savings, While it represents Anciabah addition to the volume of real resources available for use, it includes the possibility of increasing the efficiency of local resources and the resulting operation of the idle resources may also lead to raising the productivity of resources actually used. و يعد .And foreign direct investment is also an important source of external funding for particular countries in which the level of domestic savings to finance an adequate level of investments required to achieve high rates of growth and economic development.
اما:The factors affecting the inflow of FDI, given the intensity of international competition to attract FDI States concerned to know the fundamental factors that affect the flow of IDE and be provided inside the country, and in this connection there are two basic factors governing the investment decision are :
1.1. مدى .The availability of good opportunities for investment, as foreign investors are expected from such opportunities to achieve a good return than might accrue alternative opportunities in other countries or other sectors, and requires proven the feasibility of the project investment opportunity in all its aspects-how, financial, administrative, marketing.
2.2. .The availability of appropriate investment climate, meant the overall investment climate conditions and the political situation and economic and social, institutional, legal and procedural issues also could affect the chances of success of an investment project in a certain area or, and the aforementioned conditions are overlapping elements affecting and affected each other and most variable component creates interaction or escalation of the premises of various new situations and translate the outcome as attractive for investment or centrifugal, and it should be noted that the degree of influence of these factors on the decision of the foreign investor differs from one country to another, and there is no doubt that the degree of influence of the aforementioned shows clearly when comparing between a developed and other developing countries.
- - In terms of attracting investments.
.These conditions enabling conditions for investment must be met in order to attract foreign investment, which could not be provided in the absence pending the arrival of investors, national or foreign. .The first requirement would be to provide political and economic stability, providing stability of the political system is an essential and irreplaceable role and depends on investment, even if the expected profitability of investment can be substantial investment in the absence of political stability, Then there is economic stability in second place after ascertaining the extent to which political instability, and even that was difficult to separate between them, and the economic stability achieved in the macroeconomic balances and provide appropriate opportunities for successful investment, and one of the most important economic indicators adopted in judging the economic climate for investment recall the following elements, elements of the macroeconomic balance any budget (control budget deficits), the balance of payments, controlling the rate of inflation.
اما لـ IDE ، و .The second element is economic elements to attract investment and the free transfer of funds (especially the profits) of fiscal and customs incentives for investment, social laws for the organization of work, administrative procedures associated with the investment (term investment to obtain a license or establish an economic) The third element is in terms of attracting primary IDE must emphasize the need independence of the judiciary system and provide transparency in the economic sphere (public transactions), while we find that complementary conditions for attracting foreign investment, The availability of the basic conditions for investment must ensure additional conditions, which allow the country to catch up with a possibility of attracting told IDE, and these conditions can be grouped in four elements : first, market size and growth rate, that is what motivated companies to invest in a country that is linked to the size of the market but the size of the market does not matter per se as much as concern over the evolution and growth of the market in the future, foreign investors are more Angzaba areas experiencing large and dynamic expansion of markets and providing new opportunities for investment, no, it is not enough to be significant market size is a prerequisite but it must be dynamic market, which applies to the states of Southeast Asia, secondly providing qualified human resources, global companies using production techniques and sophisticated high-value-added products and thus providing job offer low-cost and low qualifying is not considered an attractive investment, as was the case at the beginning of the 1960s of the last century in the free zones as Hong Kong, now that the search for cost minimization through component work not only occupies pride of place in determining the direction of investment, III provides a sophisticated means of communication (telephone, Internet), transportation (land, air, sea, rail) The nature of international treaty imposed to ensure permanent contact between good and all branches, Fourthly provide the fabric of local institutions successful, could provide a network of SMEs is one of the important conditions to attract investors, as the availability of this network of local institutions open the opportunity for international companies to carry out mergers and acquisitions, which amount to about half the volume of foreign direct investment annually. The privatization of these institutions attract more foreign investors, and advantages of small and medium enterprises is its role as a supplier of large enterprises through attribution and subcontracting, which allows the reduction of fixed costs of major institutions.

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US military takes Iraq war to YouTube


By Laura Smith-Spark
BBC News, Washington



The US military has taken the war in Iraq into cyberspace, with the launch of its own channel on the video-sharing website YouTube.
Its 25 brief clips include footage of US soldiers firing at unseen snipers in Baghdad, handing out footballs to Iraqi children and rescuing an Iraqi family injured by an explosive device.
In two months, the Multi-National Force-Iraq channel has climbed to 16th in YouTube's most subscribed-to listing and has, the military says, just passed the 1 million video views mark. With titles like Battle on Haifa Street and Iraqi Boy Scouts Prepare for Jamboree, the clips are intended to show a "boots on the ground" perspective of Iraq, a statement on the site says.

The channel is also a perhaps belated attempt to move into the territory of Islamist extremist groups which have used the internet to post footage of hostages or attacks on US forces.
But, sceptics ask, will it give audiences a truer picture - or is it just an attempt by the US military to shift the focus in Iraq to the positive developments it accuses the mainstream media of neglecting?
Cyberspace battle
Lt Col Christopher Garver, a spokesman for US forces in Iraq, told the BBC News website the project's initial motivation was simply to get the "great footage" being shot by the military's combat cameramen in Iraq out to a wider audience.
The YouTube clips include firefights - and more peaceful scenes


However, it also serves to show another side of operations in Iraq beyond news reports of "the car bomb of the day", he says - and to counter the messages of anti-American sites.
Lt Col Garver acknowledges the US military has been slow to try to combat the influence of extremist groups on the internet.
"The cyberspace battle space was not one that we were particularly operating well in," he says. "This was one of the first public steps into that cyberspace."
The footage is not picked specifically to show the military in a good light, he says, and is only edited for reasons of time or content too graphic to be shown on YouTube.
And while all the clips currently posted have been shot by the military's combat cameramen, soldiers and marines have been invited to submit their own clips.
Spin or reality?
As on any YouTube channel, viewers are free to comment positively or negatively on the clips posted on MNF-Iraq.
Remarks are usually only taken down if they are profane, Lt Col Garver says, and not because they are critical of the military.
One militant group posted an image of a doll claiming it was a hostage


"About 80-90% of the comments left generally approve of what we have done in terms of trying to get information out into the public domain.
"Generally we see a lot of debate... and in an open society debate is a good thing, so we tend to try to let it go."
A look at the comments posted beneath the clip Troops Give Gifts to Iraqi Children reveals a wide range of opinion.
One viewer posts a one-word reaction: "Propaganda."
Another says: "No matter how you spin it, it is a 'Winning the hearts and minds' campaign. We did the same thing when I was there. Yes it's to pass along a gift, but also to buy them off so they don't toss grenades or other explosives at us or into our compound."
A third viewer responds: "When I was there I spent like an hour a day blowing up soccer balls for those kids, not buildings. Unfortunately our media is too busy selling the idea that we are 'bombing buildings', so all you know us as are baby killers. Unbelievable."
Chasing the enemy
There is no shortage of comment on the US-led war in Iraq already posted on the internet. However, there has been debate about how much freedom active-duty soldiers should have to blog on their experiences, with some officers concerned it could impact on security and morale.

So what is the reaction in the blogosphere to the military establishment's own move into the internet "battle space"?
Blogger, writer and former US soldier Bill Roggio says it is really just an extension of the US military's attempt to reach the public through mainstream media.
"It's really a smart move. One thing that al-Qaeda does very well is put its own videos of attacks on Americans or Iraqis up on their own websites. They dominate that terrain and they get the hits."
By getting a good YouTube and Google rating, the US military will improve the chances of theirs being the first site people go to when they search on topics relating to Iraq, he says.
"They are very slow, very behind the times in things like blogs," he argues. "But they are starting to move forward and recognising the medium - they have to, the enemy is doing it and they have to counter that."
The military wants to shift the focus from the many car bombs in Iraq


Mr Roggio - who has been embedded with the military in Iraq three times since the 2003 US-led invasion - says he is willing to give the US military the benefit of the doubt over its choice of videos.
"Some of these are very military friendly but not all of them are," he says.
He points to one clip where the footage is murky, one of the soldiers looks scared and the viewer is left wondering what is going on.
"It certainly wasn't a recruiting commercial. I think it was a pretty frank look at what combat looks like in our generation.
"I don't think they are going to put something up that shows them in a bad light, but I do think they are trying to give you a little snapshot of 'one day in the life of...'." Lt Col Garver would agree. "All I'm looking to provide is another view of things that are happening here in this very complicated, very complex place that is Iraq."

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The Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation recently published which indicated that the rates of inflation exceeded 70%, which continues to climb .. .Drawing on the prices of goods and foodstuffs in local markets in Baghdad and other governorates.


The dinar has appreciated 220 dinar in the last 6 months and has not stoped inflation ....not even slowed it down !!!! Whats next !! ????? any ideas ???

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The Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation recently published which indicated that the rates of inflation exceeded 70%, which continues to climb .. .Drawing on the prices of goods and foodstuffs in local markets in Baghdad and other governorates.


The dinar has appreciated 220 dinar in the last 6 months and has not stoped inflation ....not even slowed it down !!!! Whats next !! ????? any ideas ???

The people area still living basically a poverty stricken life......time for the ole rv

Kurdistan maintains oil money to pay provincial governments

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The Integrity : $ 1.5 billion «thefts» refineries in the north and south ... Kurdistan maintains oil money to pay provincial governments and rejects the principle of transfer to the Federal Ministry of Finance for distribution

Baghdad-Hussein life-13 / 05 / 07 / /

Dr Mahmoud Othman, the Kurdish new dispute between the central government and the government of Kurdistan region in the bill of oil and gas controversial stressing that the American pressures against it by the parties to adopt the law at the time confirmed that the integrity of the oil sector «one of the largest government sectors experiencing havoc administratively and financially».

He told «life» that «new dispute, which arose between Baghdad and Erbil, is the validity of the National Oil Company and the acting oil imports Source».

He said that the three wanted a reference contained in the law, to make 90% of the oil reserves in Iraq under the control of the National Oil Company consternation of the Kurdish government. He added that recognized «mean we go back to the central system, which has hindered the attraction of foreign investments and in this case we do not need the oil».

Othman stressed that the dispute over the acting oil imports is the desire of the Kurds to pay money to the government of the Kurdistan region directly and not through the Ministry of Finance pointed out that federal «slow central government in the province pay dues paying Kurds to claim so».

Osman pointed out that a high level delegation from the government of Kurdistan, headed Nigervan Barzani, Prime Minister of the province, will visit Baghdad this week to coincide with the visit of the Minister of Oil Hussein Shahrastani to Kurdistan to discuss the new draft law on oil.

Renewed Accord Front, which expressed reservations on the draft law of oil and gas, rejection of the law, said Salim Abdullah spokesperson told «life» The Front «believes that the current situation is not appropriate to approve the bill» pointing out that the Front to consider the new draft law with suspicion and concern, especially as it deals with oil investment, which is the most important element of the Iraqi national income.

Abdullah stressed that the front view of this Act as a catalyst for the division of Iraq and that stems from our belief that federalism and the distribution of wealth to divide Iraq.

He pointed out that the discovery of vast reservoirs of oil and gas in Sunni areas, as recently announced, «would not change our position and we feel that foreign companies have had a role in the approval of the draft law to serve the interests of hand as we reject the call for the law to allocate oil sector».

In turn, criticized Attorney Alehyale Noureddine, a member of the oil, gas and natural resources in Parliament, the draft law, pointing out that it focuses on exploration and production in oil fields discovered not being invested because of the embargo that was imposed on Iraq since 1991. He added that the law focused on the issue of production through contracting with foreign firms also referred to the bill as «contracts and production» pointing out that more than half of the proceeds of these fields «will go to those companies».

He pointed out that «international pressure exercised on the government to raise the level of production to the maximum extent in order to flood the market and reduce the global oil price per barrel to the lowest level for achieving political interests are directed against the oil producing countries».

Meanwhile, the official spokesman for the integrity of carp «life» that the oil sector «witnessed the havoc financially and administratively range during the past four years was the vast smuggling of oil and its derivatives, oil refineries not subject to the central authority».

A carp that the body had received a report from the Inspector-American in the value of money wasted in the oil sector indicates that the Baiji refinery alone witnessed wasting more than $ 1 billion in addition to half a billion dollars in South Refineries.

He attributed the causes of carp financial corruption in the sector that most of the major oil refineries are located in areas not subject to heated control, notably Baiji refinery in the north and oil refineries in southern Basra, and the intensification of the conflict there. Stressing that it is difficult to know the full value of corruption and size.

The newspaper published «York Times» report yesterday issued by the American government accounting office pointed out that employ between one hundred thousand and 300 thousand barrels of lost Iraqi production of two million barrels per day, I mean, so that between five million and 15 million dollars «stealing» daily. The report pointed to the loss of billions of dollars since the American occupation of Iraq in March (March) 2003.

The bill oil new amendment to the previous draft, which is to revive the national oil company of Iraq in addition to the establishment of a joint fund for oil revenues highlighted the axes of this law, in addition to the new division of oil wells, where they will be granted production rights in 52 oil wells in working to the national company, would compete with foreign companies to invest 26 wells human unproductive after alongside Neil exploration licenses.

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Basra Governorate Council awaits the arrival of a parliamentary committee to resolve crisis

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Basra-Aziz called life-13 / 05 / 07 / /

Sources in Basra Governorate what has been rumored about the appointment of one of the characters from the Sadri trend adviser to the Governor of Basra impact of the political crisis between members of the existing Islamic Virtue Party, which continues to cast a shadow over the overall situation in the city.

According to other sources, a list of Islamic Basra, which led conflict dismiss the city's governor, still awaiting the arrival of the promised Parliament sent to the city for consideration in finding a solution to the crisis hanging on the circumstance where everyone awaits the announcement of elections in the governorates where it is believed he will dilemmas concerning the distribution of powers between the council members and governors.

A source close to one currents actors within the Basra Governorate Council members that the majority of the list of Basra Islamic Picture not practiced for a long time and that some of its members left Iraq to Iran. With left some members of the Iraqi List to Kuwait Council members remained of the Virtue Party exercising their work regularly.

A security patrol found a British Army ammunition cache on the remnants of the former Iraqi army in the northern town of Zubair, 30 km from the city of Basra.

A statement by the multi-national forces to patrol the British FME routine in the region discovered military trench contains more than 20 bomb 120-mm mortar rounds and ammunition in addition to 30 different artillery shells have been destroyed in the explosion cache controlled by the British experts.

A source in the Iraqi police said that a bomb had exploded on a British patrol in the area Altumaimih caused damaged one of the mechanisms without casualties among the soldiers.

He added that the two explosive devices were bombs exploded, one near the House citizen working in the police to combat crime in the Kiss (7 km from the city center) and the second near the house of a policeman working in the ports Palmakl. So police were able to liberate the town of Zubair Australian citizen of Iraqi origin who had been kidnapped two days ago.

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Kirkuk police chief refuses to comply with the resolutions of Baghdad isolating officers

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Campaigns out wide in search of the Kurdistan «Ansar al-Islam» ... Kirkuk police chief refuses to comply with the resolutions of Baghdad isolating officers
Kirkuk, Sulaymaniyah - Mohammed al-Tamimi life-13 / 05 / 07 / /

Student Arabs living in Kirkuk, to reconsider the formation of the administration of the city and the text of the draft normalization and forbidding Iraqi blood and forced displacement, rescind decisions «failure to appoint Arabs in jobs and government institutions» in Kurdish cities witnessed campaigns search and storming extensive search of the group «Ansar al-Islam» Kurdish Troops The Kirkuk police chief refused to comply with the resolutions of the Iraqi Interior Ministry special downgrade 266 officers from the Kurdish employees of the Interior in the city or isolate them.

A statement of the Arab parties in Kirkuk on the need to «reconsider Article 140 and in accordance with constitutional amendments accomplishments and to stop the implementation of article because of deteriorating security and the government's preoccupation with the Iraqi security plan». The «referendum scheduled end of November next« gateway to claim some neighboring countries such Iraqi cities of Mosul and Irbil Alaadtin to Turkey in the past as well as Sulaymaniyah, Amarah and Basra to Iran means fragmentation of the country ».

He pointed to the need «reconsider current management of Kirkuk, according to the demands of the Arabs and Turkomen and the security institutions Kurdish Arbil and Sulaymaniyah and the formation of a national security directorate ethnically balanced» refused «all resolutions issued by the Kurdish government in regard to the situation of Kirkuk administrative and security service, a claim the Kurdish responsible disclosure of the fate of the detainees Arabs and Turkomen in prisons in Irbil and Sulaymaniyah, Aqrah ».

The Advisory Board denied Arab allegations regarding the formation of troops from the Arab tribes in the city, Sheikh Abdel Rahman Asi Minstrel «that the formation of any additional troops would overrun the deteriorating situation and the rule of law».He called for «a militia (s) held by Kurdish parties in Kirkuk and returned to Kurdistan and the Iraqi army and police security functions in spite of the meager rate of Arabs and Turkmen against Kurds in which».

The Board pointed out that «parties and organizations, the Arab tribes prefer the language of dialogue and understanding violence and other practices».

On the other hand refused to Kirkuk police chief Major General Circo Shaker comply with the decision of the Interior Ministry in Baghdad sector downgrade 266 Kurdish officers belonging to the police and security.

He stressed in a press statement on «it is not permissible to downgrade military issued according to a presidential decree and is not entitled to the Ministry of Interior to take such decisions».

The official said that the Kurdish «officers covered by the resolution are not qualified may be punished, but must be rewarded».

The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior Major General Aydin Turkmen Khaled Kassem decided downgrading officers Kurds also spent decision to cut military jobs to the degree «policemen», «return to Arbil and Sulaymaniyah in the event refrained competent authorities to carry out orders».

The Shaker refused earlier to comply with the decision of the Interior Ministry special exemption from the city police, pointing out that the decision of his «American desire was not one has the right to exempt him from office».

The authorities announced the arrest of the brother of Kurdish outlet truck bombing in Irbil last Wednesday, a security source reported «forces carried out wide campaigns in the district Koysanjak search of the Kurdish group Ansar al-Islam extremist».

It was reported the existence of elements of the group banned in the Taqtaq during a process Irbil at the time of Department decided to send Peshmargas thousand fighters to the border with Iran, where a prime minister «Najirfan Barzani» security agreement to prevent the infiltration of fighters «Qaeda» Army of Ansar Al-Islam and the Kurdistan last week.

He said ministry spokesman Major General Jabbar aide-de-camp that «s leadership of the Assembly has decided to send brigades Chehrbazir and Chehrzur to support the forces controlling the border with Iran and 500 soldiers will be permanently stabilized at the border and the other will traverse the area detachments in the form of ambushes and patrols to prevent infiltration of terrorists into Kurdistan».

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The Integrity : $ 1.5 billion «thefts» refineries in the north and south ... maintains oil money to pay provincial governments and rejects the principle of transfer to the Federal Ministry of Finance for distribution

13/05/07//Baghdad-Hussein life-13 / 05 / 07 / /

Dr Mahmoud Othman, the Kurdish new dispute between the central government and the government of Kurdistan region in the bill of oil and gas controversial stressing that the American pressures against it by the parties to adopt the law at the time confirmed that the integrity of the oil sector «one of the largest government sectors experiencing havoc administratively and financially».

He told «life» that «new dispute, which arose between Baghdad and Erbil, is the validity of the National Oil Company and the acting oil imports Source».

.He said that the three wanted a reference contained in the law, to make 90% of the oil reserves in Iraq under the control of the National Oil Company consternation of the Kurdish government. He added that recognized «mean we go back to the central system, which has hindered the attraction of foreign investments and in this case we do not need the oil».

Othman stressed that the dispute over the acting oil imports is the desire of the Kurds to pay money to the government of the Kurdistan region directly and not through the Ministry of Finance pointed out that federal «slow central government in the province pay dues paying Kurds to claim so».

Osman pointed out that a high level delegation from the government of Kurdistan, headed Nigervan Barzani, Prime Minister of the province, will visit Baghdad this week to coincide with the visit of the Minister of Oil Hussein Shahrastani to Kurdistan to discuss the new draft law on oil.

Renewed Accord Front, which expressed reservations on the draft law of oil and gas, rejection of the law, said Salim Abdullah spokesperson told «life» The Front «believes that the current situation is not appropriate to approve the bill» pointing out that the Front to consider the new draft law with suspicion and concern, especially as it deals with oil investment, which is the most important element of the Iraqi national income.

.Abdullah stressed that the front view of this Act as a catalyst for the division of Iraq and that stems from our belief that federalism and the distribution of wealth to divide Iraq.

He pointed out that the discovery of vast reservoirs of oil and gas in Sunni areas, as recently announced, «would not change our position and we feel that foreign companies have had a role in the approval of the draft law to serve the interests of hand as we reject the call for the law to allocate oil sector».
In turn, criticized Attorney Alehyale Noureddine, a member of the oil, gas and natural resources in Parliament, the draft law, pointing out that it focuses on exploration and production in oil fields discovered not being invested because of the embargo that was imposed on Iraq since 1991 He added that the law focused on the issue of production through contracting with foreign firms also referred to the bill as «contracts and production» pointing out that more than half of the proceeds of these fields «will go to those companies».

He pointed out that «international pressure exercised on the government to raise the level of production to the maximum extent in order to flood the market and reduce the global oil price per barrel to the lowest level for achieving political interests are directed against the oil producing countries».

Meanwhile, the official spokesman for the integrity of carp «life» that the oil sector «witnessed the havoc financially and administratively range during the past four years was the vast smuggling of oil and its derivatives, oil refineries not subject to the central authority».

A carp that the body had received a report from the Inspector-American in the value of money wasted in the oil sector indicates that the Baiji refinery alone witnessed wasting more than $ 1 billion in addition to half a billion dollars in South Refineries.

He attributed the causes of carp financial corruption in the sector that most of the major oil refineries are located in areas not subject to heated control, notably Baiji refinery in the north and oil refineries in southern Basra, and the intensification of the conflict there. Stressing that it is difficult to know the full value of corruption and size.

The newspaper published «York Times» report yesterday issued by the American government accounting office pointed out that employ between one hundred thousand and 300 thousand barrels of lost Iraqi production of two million barrels per day, I mean, so that between five million and 15 million dollars «stealing» daily. 2003.The report pointed to the loss of billions of dollars since the American occupation of Iraq in March (March) 2003.

The bill oil new amendment to the previous draft, which is to revive the national oil company of Iraq in addition to the establishment of a joint fund for oil revenues highlighted the axes of this law, in addition to the new division of oil wells, where they will be granted production rights in 52 oil wells in working to the national company, would compete with foreign companies to invest 26 wells human unproductive after alongside Neil exploration licenses.



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