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Fraser Institute Annual

22 Feb 2019

While it is useful to measure the attractiveness of a jurisdiction based on policy factors such as onerous regulations, taxation levels, the quality of infrastructure, and the other policy related questions that respondents answered, the Policy Perception Index alone does not recognize the fact that investment decisions are often sizably based on the pure mineral potential of a jurisdiction. [...] The bottom When considering both policy and mineral potential in the Investment Attractiveness Index, Venezuela ranks as the least attractive jurisdiction in the world for investment. [...] Given the survey’s very broad circulation, its extensive press coverage, and the positive feedback we receive from miners, investors, and policymakers about its usefulness, we believe that the survey broadly captures the perceptions of those involved in both mining and the regulation of mining for the jurisdictions included. [...] The PPI (table 2 and figure 4) provides the data on policy perception (see below for explanation on how the index is calculated), while the rankings from the Best Practices Mineral Index (table 3 and figure 5), based on the percentage of responses for “Encourages Investment” and a half-weighting of the responses for “Not a Deterrent to Investment,” provides the data on mineral potential. [...] Table 1 details the relative trends observed over the last five years for the performance of each of the jurisdictions on the Investment Attractiveness Index.
politics economics united states economy mining science and technology canada employment mining engineering non-tariff barriers social sciences tax taxes human activities territorial province provinces and territories of canada northwest territories australian australia’s latin american countries
ISBN
9780889755383
Pages
86
Published in
Vancouver, BC, CA

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