Loss of and defaults on investments, which will have longer term financial consequences

The growing trend towards South South investment flows would also lead to an increase in South South investment disputes.

This has resulted in limited financing for investments needed for private sector growth, especially small and medium sized enterprises.

As a result, the issue was no longer whether trade led to FDI or FDI led to trade but how firms accessed resources and where they located their value added activities investment and trade flows were determined simultaneously by the locational decisions of TNCs.

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The risk was a less than optimal allocation of scarce resources, or a waste of resources.

There is an outflow of capital from developing regions either to meet those rising costs or to be invested in the developed world, leaving those regions woefully short of capital for investment.

Executive Outcomes apos tendency is, naturally, to grow and expand its interests, and this leads to its involvement in armed conflicts in the countries it assists and to its participation in internal affairs, such as the economy, resource development and capital investment.

2.Apart from promoting investment through granting legal protection and guarantees, to what extent have BITs led to additional measures aimed at promoting investment flows between treaty countries?

Debt constrained structural adjustment policies compounded the problem through a decline in agricultural investment.

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The expert indicated that Korean OFDI had led to a trade surplus because of intra firm trade.

In the absence of a reliable and comprehensive intelligence assessment, substantial misconceptions might arise and resources might be misallocated.

It is also discouraging foreign direct investment, as is the discrediting of Egypt s police forces. As a result, still more sources of working and investment capital are disrupted, amplifying the impact of domestic capital flight.

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28 Bilateral investment treaties which include bonds in the definition of investment can lead to claims against debtors for expropriation in the context of debt restructuring.

quot Noting that increased cross border trade and investment leads to greater incidence of cases where enterprises and individuals have assets in more than one State,

In this connection, overexposure to OFDI activities could lead to inefficiency and decline in competitiveness.

Finally, high finance allows for portfolio diversification, so that individual investors can seek high expected returns without being forced to assume large, idiosyncratic risks of bankruptcy and poverty.

There are several reasons for the difference between SMEs' OFDI behaviour and that of large enterprises.

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Evidence shows that, compared to FDI from large enterprises, FDI from SMEs is more likely to lead to multiplier effects through linkages to local industry (UNCTAD 1998).

The immediate cause of Chile s slowdown is the decline in investment, particularly in mining but the underlying problem is that the failure to diversify the economy sufficiently makes it far from clear what new kinds of investment, and which new exports, will take up the slack.

Such tax induced distortions would lead to an inefficient regional allocation of investment and possible tax competition.

First, they were trapped in a vicious circle of low income, low savings and low investment, leading to low productivity and low growth.

Discussions had been held on issues such as a possible multilateral framework on investment and its development dimension, export processing zones, targeting investors, locational decisions of investors, outward investment promotion measures and investment incentives.

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.

Market reform often translates into lower consumer prices which can encourage more consumption and discourage energy efficiency investments.

33. The resulting fall in total investment, especially private investment, led from the mid 1970s onwards to a restriction in the expansion of modern productive activity, which could not continue to create sufficient employment.

Other emerging countries are also unlikely to absorb much of China s capital. Notwithstanding its advocacy of public investment spending, even the IMF accepts that a sudden increase in public investment is more likely to cause developing country indebtedness than growth.

54. His Government was concerned that financial liberalization and restrictive monetary policies had uncoupled finance from international trade and investment, leading to short termism and its concomitant lack of commitment to investment in productive assets.

Capital importing countries conclude BITs in an effort to attract foreign investment in the interest of development, by protecting it and thereby demonstrating their commitment to providing a favourable investment climate.

Critics of Bachelet claim that this agenda is already depressing business investment and is responsible for relatively slow economic growth. And they worry that foreign and domestic investors will be discouraged by the new labor rules.

Meanwhile, enormous investment did not bring about the corresponding economic benefit, which was a key factor leading to poor quality and benefit in economic growth.

The guiding principles and policies governing United Nations are applicable to all United Nations offices holding responsibility for investments.

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22. Such a system will not lead to savings in and of itself.

Third, the corporate sector faces a glut of capacity, and a weak recovery of profitability is likely if growth is anemic and deflationary pressures still persist. As a result, businesses are not likely to increase capital spending.

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If fiscal rebalancing is accomplished in part by cutting investment, medium and longer term growth will suffer, resulting in fewer employment opportunities for younger labor market entrants. Sustaining investment, on the other hand, has an immediate cost it means deferring consumption.

It can result in the loss of control over biogenetic resources.

The Meeting had provided useful guidance for the work of the UNCTAD secretariat and had agreed that UNCTAD s Advisory Services on Investment and Technology could provide technical assistance in specific areas of investment promotion, as well as collaborating with UNIDO and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA).

Economic constraints have, in effect, led to under investment raising questions about institutional capacity to deliver on children's entitlements.

That, we hope, will lead to an increase in financial support and investments capable of speeding up the attainment of the MDGs within the established time frame.