1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION:
In Ecuador, foreign individuals or corporations in general are permitted by law to invest, except in the so called “strategic sectors of the economy”: electricity, water and sewage, highways, airports, ports and railways infrastructures, oil and others. However, those fields can also be given in concessions or associations by the State for a certain period of time and by payment to the State of a royalty according to the respective contracts negotiated with the State after the corresponding biddings....
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