BERI: Taiwan’s Investment Environment the 5th in the World

　　According to the first investment environment risk assessment issued by Business Environment Risk Intelligence (BERI) in 2005, Taiwan shares the fifth place with Norway in the Profit Opportunity Recommendation rating. This means that Taiwan is a low-risk country that is suitable for investment.

　　Among the 50 countries included in the BERI report, Taiwan ranked behind Switzerland, Singapore, Holland, and Japan. The report puts Taiwan’s overall investment environment score at 72, leaving it in the highest 1A rating category. In both score and ranking, Taiwan’s position is unchanged from the previous assessment. BERI feels that the mainland Chinese military threat against Taiwan is abating, and that society is in a state of stability. With investors keeping up their confidence in Taiwan, foreign direct investment (FDI) is expected to continue growing. The BERI report forecasts that one year and five years in the future Taiwan’s investment environment assessment score will climb to 73 and 74, respectively, putting the island in the 4th and the 5th place globally in those two years.

　　The report ranked Taiwan the 3rd in Asia, after Singapore (the 2nd worldwide with a score of 78) and Japan the fourth (with a score of 73). Taiwan was far ahead of mainland China and Malaysia (sharing the 19th place with a score of 59), South Korea (the 21st with a score of 58), and Thailand (the 28th with a score of 49).

　　BERI’s investment risk assessment is compiled according to three major indexes—operating risk, political risk, and remittance and repatriation risk—and 22 sub-indexes. From the viewpoint of multinational enterprises, what the assessment measures is a country’s suitability for investment and the profit that can be earned from investment.

　　In its most recent report, BERI also pointed out that Taiwan’s labor productivity was in the 3rd place globally, a position the island shared with Switzerland after only Singapore in the 1st place and the United States in the 2nd place; and the second in Asia. For more related information, please visit http://twbusiness.nat.gov.tw/2005beri_1.doc.

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