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causing to decrease in importance or value

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Mathur and Singh (2007) and Campos and Lien (1999), stating that corruption has a detractive effect on FDI, come to the conclusion that the 'helping hand' is valid in some cases.
We cannot afford to compromise our values." The head of the ruling National Congress Party's (NCP) parliamentary bloc, Ghazi Salah Al-Din Al-Atabani, described the UNSC resolution as malicious and detractive of Sudan's rights.
(151) The theory focuses on how imitation stimulates the production of goods while ignoring the detractive effect imitation has on a designer's profit.
Other state policies which can be attractive or detractive for FDI include regulations of business environment indicating the level of bureaucracy in the country.
They also were quicker to express supportive or detractive analogies regarding the authors' arguments.