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Lately there has been a substantial increase of interest from scientists and representatives of federal and regional authorities towards Kaliningrad region's development issues. Pronounced positive tendencies in the development of economy of Russia and its regions, accession of Kaliningrad neighbours, Poland and Lithuania to the European Union, a number of other internal Russian and international factors insistently demand drawing particular attention to researching the possibilities and problems of the Kaliningrad region investment potential. In this article analysis of traditional notions of the Kaliningrad region's investment potential is given, investment risk and some disadvantages of such notions are pointed out, the author's assessment of peculiarities of investment potential that are often underestimated or ignored are given. The conclusion is made that such peculiarities can and must be taken into account by Russian and foreign investors, by regional authorities and all participants of the investment process.

The article highlights the issues related to the regional specifics of investment activities in the Samarkand region. Formation and improvement of investment attraction mechanisms for the effective conduct of investment activities in the region, presentation of promising project proposals for a business wishing to invest, development and systematic implementation of high-quality projects, mutually beneficial cooperation with foreign partners, scientifically based proposals and recommendations. to create favorable conditions for the activities of investors, to attract investments.

Local government units (LGUs) in Poland are responsible for the implementation of a wide range of public tasks, which should be carried out in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity at lower management levels. This requires LGUs to incur not only current expenditure for the implementation of various tasks, but also investment expenditure —to provide wider access to infrastructure elementsfor local development. The opportunities for finding funds for development activities (identified with investment) are called investment potential in the subject literature.The aim of the paper is to present spetial differences in investment potential of LGUs in Polanddetermined by operating surplus. In the first part, it presents theoretical issues regarding the investment potential of local government units and the measurement meth-ods. The second one is devoted to the analysis of empirical data for the period 2007—2016 provided by Statistics Poland and Ministry of Finance.According to the study, the level of investment potential diversification both in absolute values and per capita is high, although it has decreased in recent years. The greatest variation is observed among gminas. It is worth noting that investment potential hasa fundamental impact on the volume of investment expenditure incurred by local government, which is confirmed by the results of correlation analysis.

In this article reveals the main directions of development of the agricultural sector during the economic crisis, the impact of innovation and investment, and other factors in the implementation of the State program of agriculture development. The estimation results of the implementation of government measures to support agriculture, the implementation of target indicators of development of animal husbandry in terms of solving the food problem. Analyzed the selection of investment projects to provide state support for agriculture, sources of financing innovations at the federal and regional level, preferential taxation of agricultural production to promote innovation and investment.

Recent literature on foreign direct investment (FDI) indicates increasing levels of FDI inflows can benefit the recipient countries such as through the absorption of domestic labour, transfer of useful technology and improved long-term growth. This phenomenon is noticeable in the Pacific Island countries in recent times. Official statistics on FDI in the Pacific Island countries reveals an increasing level of inflows particularly in the post-2005 period. A contributory factor to this trend is likely to be an improved business environment, amongst others. Long-term Investors usually give priority to choosing investment locations where ease of doing business favours their investment objectives. This study provides an assessment of Pacific Island countries business environment in terms of attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). Several measures of business indicators for the period 2003-2011 are used to assess the attractiveness of the Pacific Island countries business environment. Numerical data for the period 2003-2011 on several business indicators from the World Bank: starting a business, building a warehouse, enforcing contracts, registering a property, paying taxes, trading across borders, and investor protection are chosen in order to qualitatively assess the achievements in the business environment. This study also attempts to empirically ascertain if the business environment matters for FDI inflows on the basis of Dunning's (1988) theoretical framework. The estimation phase pools the data across nine Pacific Island countries. The estimation framework based on panel data estimation methodology is formulated so that key influences on FDI are unfolded. Our findings show that Pacific Island countries have a business environment that is much better than the average for the low and middle-income category of countries but falls short to that of New Zealand. Our analysis reveal some significant achievements in various countries. For example, the cost of business start-up procedures is many times lower in Samoa than those of the other Pacific Island countries and that Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu made the most significant progress in terms of reducing their cost of business start-up procedures. The study also provides empirical support that the time required to resolve insolvency; the time required to build a warehouse; and the strength of legal rights are important determinants of FDI. The implication of this study is that policy makers should formulate strategies to facilitate several improvements in the business environment so as to continue attracting investments from abroad. The reform of the business environment can deliver positive payoffs in the long-run.