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...Dabbagh is working to remove other barriers as well and crack the Top 10 on competitiveness lists prepared by the World Economic Forum and the World Bank. Since 2005, SAGIA has been pressing the notoriously sclerotic government bureaucracy to become more investor-friendly, simplify procedures and cut back on paperwork. Dahlia Khalifa, an economist on the World Bank team that produces the Doing Business report, credits Saudi Arabia with "consistent reforms over the past three years...
...Saudi Arabia is still some distance from being an investor's mecca. The kingdom ranks a woeful 137th on the World Bank's list when measured by ability to enforce contracts. For many investors, that will be a red flag. Saudi Arabia has also fared poorly on other lists that investors parse: it has slipped to 80th place on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index for 2008, from 70th in 2005. By that reckoning, Saudi Arabia is one of the most corrupt places in the Middle East...
...calculation does not include gains that some of the funds may have made in Monday's rally, but analysts say those won't be nearly enough to make up for the hundreds of billions of dollars that the funds are down. "The losses should concern every investor because these are supposed to be the smartest guys out there," says Charles Gradante, co-founder of hedge-fund advisory firm Hennesse Group. "If they can't manage their investments, how is an average person with a 401(k) supposed to cope...
...only worsen inflationary pressures. Despite the sky-high oil prices, Venezuela is not able to grow its production because the government has used all the money for clientelist programs, rather than securing future investment. Unsurprisingly, less than two years after Chavez’s oil nationalizations, no sound international investor is eager to pour money into Venezuela. And in an election year, this may mean the beginning of the end for “twenty-first century socialism...
...flawed premise - that thousands of companies are moved by the same forces, and those forces create a cohesive narrative. In recent days, that premise hasn't been quite as far-fetched. As credit markets seized and governments the world round rushed in to prop up financial institutions, investor panic - and, on Monday, euphoria - swept aside most other concerns about companies' fundamentals. "It was indiscriminate selling," says Art Hogan, chief market analyst at Jefferies & Co. of last week's market activity. "It didn't matter what your company did. It was everything for sale...