21.   Critics say it discourages investment.

22.   Depending on upcoming regulatory decisions, the government could either encourage or discourage investments in poorer, more remote areas.

23.   Developing country debt prices edged lower, on concern that plunging Asian currency and stock markets could discourage investment in emerging markets.

24.   Entoven said legal rules made it easy for juries to impose damages on businesses but did not take account of the fact that such verdicts discourage investment.

25.   Elsewhere, in places like Nigeria and Angola, pervasive corruption has cheated ordinary citizens and discouraged needed investment.

26.   Federal expenditures are now made through an operating budget, which he says discourages investment.

27.   Formal partition would reduce even further the freedom of movement and commerce between the Serb and Muslim-Croat entities, and discourage foreign investment.

28.   Government borrowing at high rates limits the amount of cash available for companies, and the guaranteed high yields discourage investment in riskier stocks.

29.   Higher rates, in turn, discourage investment and slow the economy.

30.   Higher interest rates discourage investments in the stock market, as they raise borrowing costs and attract capital into fixed-income investments.