In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.
When people come and invest in India, they invest on a certain premise, and the fact that the very premise can change worries them a lot.
Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
If a private investor is raising his hand and saying, 'I don't have the conditions with which to work,' then the government has the responsibility to create those conditions.
The U.K.'s reputation as a business destination will suffer if its authorities cannot be relied on to enforce the law.
I am very bullish on India because of its people, its culture, and the leadership. I love the culture and warmth of people.
This is not the time for knee jerk populist reactions to problems. These will only discourage foreign investment and make matters worse.
Saudi Arabia has proved to be the growth engine for Wipro.
We must not have an economy that discourages and chases away investors from investing in South Africa.
One of our priorities is to have an enabling environment for private investment, both domestic and foreign investment, and that means we are going to officially combat corruption because we believe that this scourge, this illness, hinders our efforts to attract private investors.
Good governance is an important precondition for success of government but it is not sufficient. Economic growth is necessary.
Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.
In my experience over the past 30 years in business, investment decisions can be slowed or stopped due to unpredictability in laws and regulatory framework or if free trade and competition is hampered or access to capital restricted.
So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.
We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates.
The evidence is inarguable that Australia is becoming too expensive and too uncompetitive to do export-oriented business. Africans want to work, and its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day. Such statistics make me worry for this country's future. We are becoming a high-cost and high-risk nation for investment.
Germany is the biggest economy of Europe and we need Germany on board for the economic reforms of Europe, including, of course, the deepening of the internal market, resisting protectionism, and supporting further economic policy coordination.
We have enacted many economic reforms but also others that have an impact on the overall investment climate. For instance, I launched a very important constitutional reform on judicial certainty that completely restarted the whole of the courts system in Ukraine.
There is much that remains mysterious about why some countries grow rapidly and some grow slowly.
Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.
An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market
The U.K. is open for investment, but not for exploitation.
South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.
Business follows the flag …. Where there is stability and security, there is likely to be investment.
We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.
