Austria As Location For CEE Holdings - Why, How, When?

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As a result of the financial and economic crisis, global foreign direct investment (FDI) has been declining since mid-2008. With a certain delay, the decline also struck CEE in 2009. Most recent reports, such as the UNCTAD World Investment Report 2009, do however forecast an end of the downturn by as early as 2010 and a recovery in 2011 at the latest. Companies that have already done their homework induced by the crisis are therefore well advised to prepare themselves now for the expected resurgence.