Chemicals management

Having concluded its consideration of complaint No.

The Coming Productivity Revolution

The United Nations will continue its efforts to provide the necessary support for the upcoming referendum and national elections.

231. Costs of agricultural inputs and labour are high (i.e. costs of production have steadily gone up).

(2) Where a securities firm undertakes collective investments with assets of several clients or invests its client s assets in specific targeting products without any approval.

Forthcoming also is the signing of the Convention on the Protection of the European Cultural Heritage.

Furthermore, the upgrading support for TML's SME suppliers features the following elements declaration of supplier status, technical support for development as well as quality, project guidance, tooling support, financial support, training support, guaranteed business and raw materials support in special nature. The TNC constantly monitors the quality of its suppliers' products and processes.

The Sino US stem cell project will be officially put into operation at the end of the year.

Item 5 of the provisional agenda will be allocated to the Committee and it will be expected to begin its work immediately.

What are the likely implications of including portfolio investment under a BIT in terms of investment protection and, where applicable, in terms of admission of investment?

And I'll leave you with one final slide, that is how do we scale this up?

Furthermore, several new production projects are expected to come on stream, with large capacity increases expected in Latin America as well as Australia, and production capacity is also expected to expand in both Chile and Peru.

Even abundant domestic savings in the future would not guarantee higher investment. Firms eagerness to invest depends on how much additional output they can get out of that investment, and recent productivity growth in Latin America as in the US has been disappointing.

The ratio of permanent that is, unelected to non permanent, or elected, members would increase from 1 2 to almost 1 1.

The investment officer who covers the emerging markets would be assigned to head the team dealing with emerging markets, real estate investments and alternative investments.

Third country companies are prohibited from selling to Cuba goods or services in which United States technology is used or which require United States products exceeding 10 per cent of their value, even where their owners are third country nationals

One of the two investment officers who together cover the European equity markets would be assigned to real estate investments.

Some laws require a market valuation of an asset through sale, whereby the highest price available in the market for the asset is obtained via tender or auction.

Project sponsors and lenders will be interested in obtaining assurances that the facility will generate sufficient revenue to repay the project company s debt, recoup the investment and allow them a reasonable profit.

The expected output would be the report for the tenth session of the Conference, as well as an input to the World Investment Report 1999

The cost of the Investment Management Service space would therefore be fully charged against the assets of the Fund.

Investment in China s manufacturing sector was low in December, but infrastructure investment improved slightly. As such, fixed asset investment for the month will remain the same as that in November.

Moreover, changing systems always required additional investment, even in situations where savings might exist in the future.

The EFSI will be equipped with 5 billion in start up capital, produced through the revaluation of existing EIB assets, and will be backed by 16 billion in guarantees from the European Commission. The fund is expected to leverage this to acquire roughly 63 billion in loans, with private investors subsequently contributing some 5 for every euro lent bringing total investment to the 315 billion target.

Governments should therefore invest in R D a minimum of 1 per cent of GDP.

Large investors diversify their asset portfolio in order to optimize their risk return ratio.

(b) An allocation to high yield bonds will provide further diversification benefits to the portfolio, more than compensating for the risk of this asset category

The RCF will be subject to a triennial review, which will take place during the third year of its operation, i.e., 1999.

Such products cannot be placed on the market unless it has been determined that their properties are in conformity with technical requirements.

2025 Mexico will invest over two per cent of GDP in research and development activities.

By providing for cooperation between the courts and the other competent authorities of States involved in matters of international insolvency, the Model Law would attain its main objective, which was to give trade and investment a greater degree of certainty.

All the king's horses and all the king's men ...

I'm going to talk briefly about two of them the prisoner's dilemma and the tragedy of the commons.

Our investment in trying to prevent pandemic flu is affecting the distribution of possible outcomes.

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There is no investment officer to cover real estate investments.

Even large enterprises may experience such problems, as illustrated by the experience of Korean firms, some of which divested their early investments in the United States and moved facilities to other host countries with business conditions similar to their own, such as Mexico.

A necessary complement to this is an environment conducive to channelling the savings to productive investments.

This would require an investment of 25 per cent compared to the present rate of 18 19 per cent of GDP.

These all require raw materials or basic processed horticultural products as inputs and have long established supply relationships with producer countries.

Hydroponic farming is being promoted as an investment opportunity and overall the sector is expected to contribute 5.23 per cent of GDP in 1998.19

Parliament had recently passed the Property (Right of spouses) Act, soon to enter into effect, which allowed for the equitable division of property between spouses on the breakdown of marriage.

Even large producers may be deterred from making product and process investments if the prices they can get from large retailing conglomerates prevent them from securing an adequate return to cover their costs.