Promoting and financing investment in ICTs

Investment opportunities, innovative financing, and policy incentives

Financing South South trade, technology and investment flows

(3) significant fiscal expenses and investment and financing acts and

(2) such insurance fund operation as guarantee, financing and investment, etc.

A combination of technical cooperation, financing investment and other inputs would be necessary.

A combination of technical cooperation, financing, investment and other inputs would be required.

3. Stresses the role of private investment in financing development

More investment in immunization was needed, particularly through new financing mechanisms.

These resources could be complemented by external financing through international trade and investment and official development assistance.

In that regard, the Bank was spearheading efforts to develop an appropriate investment framework for clean energy and sustainable development and identify pragmatic investment and financing options.

Thus, remittances by African migrants could provide significant financing for consumption and investment in their home countries.

Private investment, both domestic and foreign, was the most important source of long term financing for development.

The amount of resources provided to developing country Parties, including financing for technical assistance and investment projects

Foreign direct investment (FDI), it was noted, is a particularly beneficial source of financing.

The Centre helps countries prepare investment projects for international financing by the World Bank and other development banks.

In addition to participating directly in financing investments, IDC helps companies identify investment opportunities abroad.

United Nations Financing for Development Office (2004). Workshop on mobilizing private investment in developing countries.

Reaffirming the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development, which recognizes sustainable debt financing as an important element for mobilizing resources for public and private investment,

16. An ECE study on trade and investment financing in transition economies covers the financing of FDI and includes recommendations for improving access of foreign affiliates to local and foreign financial sources.

The Capital Investment Institute of New Caledonia shall retain its current role and functions in respect of development financing.

17 United Nations, Financing for Development Office, Workshop on mobilizing private investment in developing countries (2004).

International financing institutions could increase overall resource commitments to water and sanitation, as well as reorient their portfolios, making use of dedicated financing initiatives for greater investment in rural and smaller settlements.

For starters, banks current retrenchment of long term investment financing is likely to persist. After all, many of the advanced country banks, especially in Europe, that dominated such investment for example, financing large scale infrastructure projects are undergoing deep deleveraging and rebuilding their capital buffers.

55. During the 1996 1997 biennium, FAO prepared a number of investment projects and programmes for financing by the multilateral financing institutions total investments mobilized for those projects amounted to some 411 million.

Emphasizing the need for additional stable and predictable financing to help developing countries undertake investment plans to achieve internationally agreed development goals,

Emphasizing the need for additional stable and predictable financing to help developing countries undertake investment plans to achieve internationally agreed development goals,

In the absence of efficient sources of financing, the transaction costs of South South trade, technology and investment flows will be increased.

Emphasizing the need for additional stable and predictable financing to help developing countries undertake investment plans to achieve internationally agreed development goals,

But there are fundamental reasons to believe that the eurozone s investment rate will remain permanently depressed. The often invoked investment gap is mostly a result of wishful thinking, and the remaining barriers to investment have little to do with a lack of financing.

The climate friendly technology financing facility in China, establishing a venture capital fund to address the financing barriers by providing equity investment and technical assistance to Chinese enterprises through financing transfer, commercialization and application of new technologies and innovations with high clean energy impact at the industrial scale

It requires sizeable and critical amounts of external financing, such as grant assistance, loans, export earnings and foreign direct investment or other capital market flows.

The three sub themes were (i) Policies and strategies (ii) Trade, investment and private flows and (iii) Official development assistance (ODA), innovative sources of financing and debt.

Improved regulatory conditions for long term investments and savings would help. So would expansion of financing instruments for infrastructure investment for example, by substantially increasing the supply of project bonds supported by the European Investment Bank.

45. The Government of Bermuda is also examining a variety of approaches to encourage investment in new and existing hotel properties, including tax incentive financing.

An environmental offset investment is a financial programme in which one country foregoes a domestic environmental investment in favour of financing a more cost effective programme in another country addressing a global environmental problem.

The measures outlined in the areas of financing for development, debt cancellation, trade promotion, investment and other specific areas of development need to be fully implemented.

A country with a record of rapid economic growth, for example, may exhibit a negative financial transfer because domestic saving (roughly, the supply of financing) increases faster than domestic investment (roughly, the demand for financing).

In addition, SADC is focusing on increasing sustainable agricultural financing and investment in line with the African Union Maputo Declaration on Agriculture and Food Security of July 2003.

Ideally, the reinvestment of profits, or the absorption of profits by fiscal measures and their utilization for financing development, should provide channels to bolster investment, incomes and savings.

In this context, two particular aspects of IFAD apos s capacity are important (a) its ability to participate substantively in terms of amount of financing and experience in investment programmes and (b) its close familiarity with the operations of international financing institutions and bilaterals.

The government is using a variety of instruments, including financial sector credit discipline, to rein in investment demand. Essentially, the government guarantee associated with financing public sector investment is being withdrawn as it should be.

The third issue is that of re establishing some sort of financial framework so that the people in the country can bring about investment, from micro credit through to financing small and medium sized industry or, indeed, attracting outside investment.

The International Conference on Financing for Development brought together issues that used to be tackled separately, such as trade, debt, investment, official development assistance and systemic issues.

Recalling also the International Conference on Financing for Development and its outcome,Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18 22 March 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex. which recognizes sustainable debt financing as an important element for mobilizing resources for public and private investment,