Dangling an economic lure, the company promised its project would create 10,400 jobs, 75percentt of them for local residents, and would account for 1percentt of Singapore's entire economy.
Or it could be that Cuba has no strong economic lure for corporate interests, while China represents a potential market of more than one billion consumers, cheap labor and plentiful natural resources waiting to be exploited.
Be it economic (the lure of in-state tuition or lower transportation costs), psychological (not far from one's family and comfort zone) or simple serendipity (the right school happens to be down the street), many students are appreciating the benefits of landing within propeller distance of their helicopter parents.
In other aspects, policymakers can claim that they simply stuck to the international orthodoxy for economic success – lure in foreign capital wherever you can, pursue your comparative advantages (which in Dublin, as in Reykjavik, came to be seen as finance) and remain open.
The city has turned its evident charms into a significant economic asset, luring dozens of big conventions every year.
Balram Halwai, the narrator of this spry jaunt through modern India, is an economic migrant lured to the big city in search of the wealth his country's embrace of capitalism has promised him.
For years, India's government has tried with mixed success to increase industrial output by developing special economic zones to lure major manufacturers.
Kush Kumar Joshi, president of the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, said his group was trying to establish special economic zones to lure Chinese manufacturers to Nepal — and for Indian companies, too.
But the momentum to clinch a deal pretty soon is unmistakable and is largely due to the economic and political lure of joining the EU.The Turkish-Cypriot government, in particular its 78-year-old leader, Rauf Denktash, is still resisting the UN plan, which, it says, will prompt a mass displacement of Turkish-Cypriots and the "Hellenisation" of the island.
The Nikkei slid by 3.8% after Shinzo Abe fired the so-called 'Third Arrow', while the yen remains below the ¥100 mark against the US dollar. in a much-anticipated speech, Abe said he would: create special economic zones to lure foreign businesses to Japan.
In an era in which cities now compete with each other globally to attract talent and lure economic activity, the Urban Observatory provides a level of comparative information not seen before and one likely to transform how we see the places in which half the human population now lives and works.
