1.   Anything that clouds consumer confidence or impedes business investment will just delay recovery.

2.   Poor infrastructure and red-tape, especially in the provincial and lower level administrations, also impeded investment, he said.

3.   Chernomyrdin said limits on land ownership are holding back economic reforms and impeding foreign investment.

4.   Chernomyrdin told an agricultural fair in St. Petersburg the issue must be resolved soon because limits on land ownership are holding back economic reforms and impeding foreign investment.

5.   Estrada had vowed repeatedly not to abandon his goal of removing constitutional restrictions on foreign ownership of land and key industries, saying they impede investment in the country.

6.   Fossil fuel subsidies in many developing countries, for instance, impede private investment in companies offering renewable sources of energy.

7.   But the officials managed to agree on supporting a programme of dialogue with business, aimed at removing infrastructure bottlenecks impeding investment in Asia-Pacific countries.

8.   Poor infrastructure, an antiquated legal system and corruption are impeding Japanese investment in India despite its reforms, a Japanese trade mission said here Friday.