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Oil and gas helps fuel foreign direct investment in 2010

Spurred in part by a steady appreciation of the Canadian dollar over most foreign currencies, direct foreign investment in Canada increased by 2.6% to $561 billion in 2010.

Foreign direct investment is deemed to occur when a foreign company owns at least 10% of the voting equity in a domestic company.

The recent gain in foreign direct investment was largely due to a 5% rise of investment from the United States which accounted for 54.5% of total foreign investment during the year. It is worth noting that although the share of US investment in Canada increased from 53.2% to 54.5% …

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Total value of projects in our database
Commercial Projects (total value)
Pre-Bid Phase:$1,412,061,931,282
Bid Phase:$33,398,505,213
Post-Bid Phase:$2,147,052,850,714
Civil Projects (total value)
Pre-Bid Phase:$273,482,419,655
Bid Phase:$13,638,360,803
Post-Bid Phase:$1,029,854,026,044
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Oil and gas helps fuel foreign direct investment in 2010
Spurred in part by a steady appreciation of the Canadian dollar over most foreign currencies, direct foreign investment in Canada increased by 2.6% to $561 billion in 2010.

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Canadian Project Leads
Total value of projects in our database
Commercial Projects (total value)
Pre-Bid Phase:$519,825,662,906
Tender Phase:$3,495,741,228
Post-Bid Phase:$61,168,372,488
Civil Projects (total value)
Pre-Bid Phase:$335,577,250,239
Tender Phase:$612,858,080
Post-Bid Phase:$66,247,704,816
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While the benefits of project management are clear, it must be noted that a good project management system — whether manual or computerized — cannot be implemented without an investment of money and time on the part of corporate management. It is, however, an investment that brings a definite and positive return. It is certainly worthwhile to review some of the common problems associated with developing better project management.

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