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International Investments:
Is Policy Pendulum Swinging Back?
By Kavaljit Singh
Despite the dominant trend towards greater liberalization of investment flows, nowadays certain kinds of investments have come under closer scrutiny by policy makers. In several countries (both developed and developing), there are moves to tighten existing investment rules or to enact new rules to regulate foreign investments and protect "strategic sectors" from foreign investors
