According to the speaker, the area of greatest expenditure of investment funds occurred in ______.

Investment in the public sector, such as electricity, irrigation, quarrying, public services and transport increased by about 10%, although the emphasis moved to transport and away from the other sectors mentioned. Trade and services recorded a 16- 17% investment growth, including a 30% increase in investment in business premises. Industrial investment is estimated to have risen by 8%.

The world is going through the biggest wave of mergers and acquisitions ever witnessed.The process sweeps from hyperactive America to Europe and reaches the emerging countries with unsurpassed might. Many in these countries are looking at this process and worrying "won’t the wave of business concentration turn into uncontrollable anticompetitive force?"