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Caption titleAt head of title: Economic Development. Indonesia. Doc. Control No. C/54-21. Benjamin Higgins. October 27, 1954"L2-127"--handwritten on leaf [1]The United States Department of Commerce has undertaken two studies which throw light on the problems that must be overcome to encourage a substantial flow of American capital to under-developed areas. The first of these was entitled: Foreign Investment of the United States, and the second, Factors Limiting U. S. Investment Abroad, both published in 1953. Th later report incorporates findings of several months of investigation undertaken in compliance with Section 516(C) of the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended. That sub-section directed the Department of Commerce to conduct a study of the legal and other impediments to private investment abroad and the methods and means whereby these impediments can be removed or decreased"--leaf [1]