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Investment obstacles 2010

A significant amount (41 percent) of the entrepreneurs indicated that they experience investment obstacles. As can be seen in the figure, these are mainly due to a shortage of financial resources (increased from 15 to 19%) and a poor market forecast of 14 percent. Also government policy (from 12 to 13%) and obtainment of work permits are important obstacles for investments, the latter increased from 10 to 12 percent.