Executive Summary of the Economic Policy Paper on
Foreign Investment Protection Policies and Anti-Expropriation Measures

 Paving the Way for a Better Environment: How this May Come About (Recommendations)

1. Advocacy and Commitment

• National political consensus
• Law and order situation

2. Measures to ensure good Governance

• Extortion must be eliminated
• Corruption must be ended

3. Domestic Investment in Tandem with Foreign Investment

• Domestic Investment must be supported to create appreciating economic and infrastructural precondition
• Efforts to eliminate mistrust between domestic and foreign Investors
• Establishment form to exchange views between domestic and foreign Investors

4. Enforcement of Policy and Strategies: Act and Rules

• Measures to ensure policies
• Strategies to implement policies

5. Institutional Mechanism: Monitoring and Co-ordination Aspects

• Establishing National Council to review Industrial Development Policy
• Establishing a Cell to review development of foreign and domestic Investment
• Establishing a legal support Unit
• Providing Information about TRIPS
• Providing Information about national Anti-Expropriation Law
• Establishing an Orientation and Training Center

6. Administrative Measures

• Restructuring and Empowering BOI
• Reactivating Embassies abroad to improve political and economic image of the country to attract foreign Investments

7. Measures to gain Support and Assistance of the Donor’s Agencies to encourage Foreign Investments

8. Realistic and Appreciating Measures to improve Labor-Business Relations