There was also a lively exchange of views on the role of incentives in investment promotion.

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Such markets can stimulate investment and encourage new private sector enterprises to emerge and prosper.

But cheap credit promotes bad investment and excessive debt, which borrowers often are unable to repay. More fundamentally, investment is a bet that cannot pay off if growth is structurally depressed.

But it does not automatically follow that governments should pour money into public infrastructure projects or foster private investment by adding further incentives amid already auspicious market conditions. At a time when private income has shrunk, public resources are scarce, and debt burdens are heavy, plans to stimulate investment should be carefully scrutinized.

Offering incentives to attract private investors to the telecommunications sector and assigning them a definite role in expanding and upgrading the system have also been considered.

More money for education will spur economic growth.

Those agreements served as trade bridges between Israel and its partners and had stimulated foreign investment.

In addition to providing more stability, bond markets are expected to stimulate domestic savings and investment.

Increased public sector investment could help to spur private sector investment, which is also severely depressed. In the United States, investment barely exceeds pre crisis levels, even though GDP has risen by 10 .

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These projects are expected to generate a higher level of employment, boosting construction and its support industries and providing a stimulus to private investment.21

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Thus, neo Keynesians have tried to spur more housing investment through rock bottom interest rates, more auto purchases through securitized consumer loans, and more shovel ready infrastructure projects through short term stimulus programs. When investment spending does not budge, they recommend that we turn excess saving into another consumption binge.

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Paraguay's legal tax structure recognized the same rights for both foreign and domestic investment, and offered incentives to new investment and reinvestment in a wide range of sectors, including bio fuel and outsourcing.

28. Large scale tourism construction projects are in progress or due to begin, and new investment projects are expected to stimulate tourist arrivals.

We have long recognized that export trade is the most sustainable source of resources for development as well as the best stimulant to investment and employment.

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The growth in domestic investments would not only enhance national wealth, but would also spur the demand for foreign capital and technology in an escalating, mutually reinforcing manner that makes investments demand driven.

It should be possible to reach this target, but that would require improving the investment climate and promoting exports to push economic growth up to 5.4 per cent, the growth rate the country had achieved during the 1960s and 1970s.

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The Bogey of Fiscal Stimulus

The Case for Fiscal Stimulus

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Its objective is to identify ways and means to stimulate investment and trade in biological resources as a means of furthering the three objectives of the CBD.

Since there is a lack of investment decision opportunities at early stages of development he argues, investment in strategic industries provides a stimulus to other industries through their forward and backward linkages.

Although the import content of such investment may be lower than for tradeable goods sectors, the investment could nevertheless give a strong stimulus to imports through its effects on aggregate demand and economic activity.

25. The representative of Bangladesh recalled his country apos s liberalization experiences and noted that, despite the efforts made and the numerous incentives offered to investors, only limited FDI inflows had been attracted to the country.

Investment promotion reflects the growing competition for FDI.

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