41.   The planned investments could help offset the impact of flagging exports, officials said.

42.   Their investment will help bridge the technology gap between rich and poor nations by lowering Internet access costs, they said.

43.   Tomseth said such investment would help move Laos even farther away from a central economy to one based on market forces.

44.   Trajkovski said Western investment would help the country recover from a conflict last year between Macedonians and the ethnic Albanian minority.

45.   He said the reform of state enterprises was a heavy task for the present generation and that foreign investment could help the process.

46.   Yemen has appealed for investment to help its economic reforms.

47.   The investment also helps Microsoft in its competition with Netscape Communications, the company whose dominance of Internet software design Microsoft wants to challenge.