direct foreign investment

基本解释

And we’ve seen an unprecedented level of direct foreign investment in China.
外国在华直接投资也达到有史以来的最高水平。
The spread of the tobacco epidemic is facilitated through a variety of complex factors with cross-border effects, including trade liberalization and direct foreign investment.
烟草的流行通过各种具有跨境影响的复杂因素得以迅速扩散，这些因素包括贸易自由化和外国直接投资。
Then, as excess capacity mounted, direct foreign investment would disappear and deflation would reign.
而后，资本容纳性过度增加，国外直接投资就会消失，进而出现通货紧缩。

But analysts say foreign direct investment is hampered by high corporate taxes and a legacy of socialist-era policies and bureaucracy.
But the trend has reversed. From April to June, India received about $15 billion in foreign direct investment, the highest since 2007.
It led to a rapid decline in foreign direct investment in Georgia and a rapid decline in growth, reinforced,of course, by the economic crisis.

Najib also sees that direct foreign investment and ownership, as practiced by neighbor Singapore, spur growth.
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