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Under the auspices of the QSA president H.E Sheikh Hamad bin Jabor
bin Jassim al Thani, QSA has conducted on March 3-4, a training
session for the field researchers who will collect data from foreign
investment companies. Thirty six researchers will deliver
questionnaires to the concerned establishments knowing that the
required data is used for statistics purposes only.
The foreign investment survey will be conducted as part of a global
undertaking in coordination with the International Monetary Fund.
This survey will provide decision-makers with accurate statistics
and recent data of foreign investments and help them to create the
appropriate environment for more investments.
This survey could measure the impact of foreign investment on the
economy of Qatar including aspects of labor force, training, exports
and imports, international services, technology transfer.
In addition, the survey would help identify the establishments that
did not achieve success in certain economic activities and direct
them to other activities. It will define the role of foreign
investment in the current and future development of the national
economy and highlight the impact of this investment on various
economic sectors.
Policy-makers and statistics users have been increasingly demanding
comprehensive information on foreign investment in order to
recognize the scope of globalization.
It is worth noting that the Foreign Investment Survey targets three
types of establishments: companies with foreign direct investment,
establishments with portfolio investments and establishments
including those which are 100 percent Qatari with transactions
abroad in the form of loans.
Foreign investment is a category of international investment in
which an investor in one economy acquires ownership interest that
confers influence over the management of an enterprise in another
economy (defined as holding 10 percent or more of the capital or
voting power). |
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