The Long Term Investment Challenge

Europe s Roadblocks to Long Term Investment

Investment strategy is simply the long term allocation of monies among the various asset types and investment markets.

Outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) by Singaporean companies has a long history.

Investment in human development is an investment in long term competitiveness, and a necessary component of a stable and progressing society.

The cropping of oilseeds takes place annually, thereby reducing long term investment requirements.

The representative of the Secretary General cautioned against focusing on short term results and reiterated that investment returns should be looked at over the long term as the Fund had long term investment objectives.

Governments in the developed countries should facilitate long term investment flows to developing countries.

Governments in the developed countries should facilitate long term investment flows to developing countries.

The long term investment objectives of the Fund are, first, to preserve the principal of the Fund in real terms and, second, to obtain an optimal investment return over the long term while avoiding undue risk.

Any investment loss can be recovered over time as long as the Fund's assets are untouched.

So, how should the US economy s jobs deficit, investment deficit, and long run fiscal deficit be addressed?

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

For example, standardizing regulations relating to covered bonds, green bonds, and cross border investment through real estate trusts could encourage more long term investment. In a more indirect way, a general regulatory push that increased the availability of projects suitable for long term investment and harmonized local insolvency regimes could also have a positive effect.

the adoption of long term trade, aid and investment policies that help empower marginalised groups and promote participation.

The unsolved regional dimension affects perceptions about long term stability, which is necessary for private investment to thrive.

The government, well aware of the overcapacity problem, focused the country s stimulus package on investment in infrastructure, rather than new factories. But infrastructure is a long term investment, revenues from which will be lower without accompanying investment in manufacturing capacity.

Investment in environmental and natural resource sustainability has been proved to yield very high returns in the long term.

Unfortunately, there is often a conflict between long term investment directed against climate change and short term food security.

In the long term, they would help change the way investment, credit, banking, research and other activities were conducted.

(8) As regards long term equity investment, it is required to separately list the beginning balance, ending balance and current and accumulative amounts of unrecognized investment losses of each invested entity.

Second, the Chinese production mix does not correspond to domestic demand, and investment in long products has outpaced demand growth.

Some countries in North Africa received together about 7 billion in portfolio investment and other forms of long term capital.

(c) The ratio of long term capital flows to gross domestic investment to reflect dependence on external funds to finance development

Without certain basic infrastructure, LDCs would never be able to develop properly and attract the investment necessary for sustaining long term growth.

Such firms, with long term corporate strategies to expand abroad, are therefore suitable targets for investment promotion, particularly by large host countries.

In the US, public investment spending has been slashed. Neither the federal government nor the states have political mandates, funding strategies, or long term plans to catalyze investment in the next generation of smart, clean technologies.

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.

Incentives to encourage foreign investment could be given foreign investment was important, in that technology acquired from abroad could be adapted to meet local needs as long as incentives for local investors were balanced against that.

In general the absence of a long tem strategy posed problems for the sustainability of the project, or the security of the investment.

The establishment of accountability systems is a long term effort and requires investment of resources on the part of States and international actors.

These institutions normally have large sums available for long term investment and may represent an important source of additional capital for infrastructure projects.

It should not be regarded as charity, but as a long term investment and developed countries had a moral responsibility to provide it.

If a country is poor and underdeveloped, it is important to focus on long term potentials and relate these to current investment opportunities.

If a country is poor and underdeveloped, it is important to focus on long term potentials and relate these to current investment opportunities.

Investment growth that surpasses an economy s absorption capacity will lead to a rapid deterioration in the efficiency of investment, which in turn will harm long term growth prospects. Evidence of this in China today is all too prevalent.

In the medium to long terms, that is the new phase of investment that the international community should focus on in assisting Timor Leste.

We have long been aware of the potential that the outer islands could have if there were only more investment in sustainable development projects.

Similarly, IFAD has a long standing agreement with the Investment Centre of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for the identification and formulation of investment projects in agriculture and rural development and for other advisory services.

The indirect negative effects of such regulations on long term investment are, by nature, more difficult to discern, but they can be just as harmful as the direct effects especially if they leave investors with fewer funds available for long term investment. Margin requirements for derivatives transactions have this effect, as do regulations that increase banking costs.

In that way, we can make investment and social spending sustainable in the medium and long term and thereby reduce our dependence on external resources.

This approach enables the investment decision maker to establish a strategic asset allocation (a long term policy guideline), in accordance with the fund's liability structure.

Given a weak domestic accumulation dynamic, it is also possible that the two sets of investment decisions have different effects on long term growth prospects.

Although expensive in the short term, such an investment will result in much larger savings in both financial and human terms in the long term.

There have been some significant developments on economic issues that have helped, to some extent, to improve the investment climate, including in the areas of privatization, access to loans from the European Investment Bank, and long term lease possibilities for investors.