National governments still stick to protectionist investment rules for investment and pension funds, for example.
Instead, we get sentences like these: "Following investment rules doesn't necessarily mean you won't lose sometimes.
Loosening any investment rules for Russian-led energy projects poses thorny questions for the Union.
India's main opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, has opposed efforts to loosen foreign investment rules.
Addressing that company's 65,000 shareholders, he offered them a primer in his investment rules.
"We have foreign investment rules in this country, and we're enforcing them".
By contrast, Mexico has developed friendly investment rules and a relatively efficient bureaucracy, analysts said.
"The foreign investment rules would not have been favorable to us.
There are so many investment rules, personnel and legal issues deterring companies from even thinking about joining the utility business".
In India, Wal-Mart is the subject of an informal investigation into potential violations of foreign investment rules.
(And indeed it liberalised investment rules and cut taxes, though it also strongly favoured cronies over independent businesspeople).
