It was noted that improving the ratings of debt issuance to investment grade by securitization and other mechanisms could lead to opening the door to large global pools of institutional investment.

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Activities undertaken to date in the field of investment promotion within the context of ongoing integrated programmes have included assistance to eight national IPAs in upgrading their capacities through training and establishment of new programme areas the establishment of one new IPA and the formulation and international promotion of 80 investment projects as joint venture opportunities.

Widely held and controlled companies differ considerably in the governance problems their investors face. In widely held firms, the concern is about opportunism by managers, who exercise de facto control in controlled firms, the concern is about opportunism by the controlling shareholder at the expense of minority shareholders.

The work of OIAs and IPAs is being underpinned by South South international cooperation.

Sarkozy is right that leverage is not necessarily good just because the free market allows it, and that speculators occasionally act in a destabilizing way. But speculators more often act as detectors of changes in economic fundamentals, or provide the signals that smooth transitory fluctuations.

Fourth, an IPA may offer a number of convenience services to investors after the investment has been approved.

To carry out the mission and achieve the Fund's goals and objectives, the Investment Section of the Investment Management Service actively manages portfolios of equity, fixed income, real estate and short term investments, constantly analysing capital markets and investment opportunities.

This agency acts as a one stop shop and as the focal point for investment promotion activities.

Number of countries that introduced changes in their investment regimes

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A study of bidding behaviour in situations where bid rigging is suspected might identify patterns suggesting customer allocation or bid rotation.

The real estate investments of the Fund require legal reviews of each investment opportunity.

To facilitate the process, an IPA may assist an investor in satisfying the investment criteria and thereafter coordinate the grant of the necessary permits and approvals by the various other government agencies concerned.

Of the several IPA functions, investment services and facilitation are the most important.

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System wide consultations take place on a continual basis that provide the scope and opportunity for beneficiary inputs to the reconstruction programme.

Funds are sought for implementing Phase II, which will entail designing sector based investment promotion programmes in cooperation with PIPA over a period of 18 months.

They include misappropriation of public funds, misuse of company assets, financial speculation, unlawful enrichment, laundering of drug money and the complicity of certain credit establishments in receiving funds which have been fraudulently acquired.

Sometimes, the shareholders of the project company may also include independent equity investors not otherwise engaged in the project (usually institutional investors, investment banks, bilateral or multilateral lending institutions, sometimes also the host Government or a State owned corporation).

Personscaughtredhanded, and those proved to be speculators will be shot on the spot by the detachments.

Finally, the discussion on outward investment promotion had shown that it would be useful to have another meeting on cooperation between inward and outward investment agencies, with more active participation by outward investment agencies.

In New Zealand, the authority for police complaints, as an independent body, was obliged to investigate or oversee the investigation of corruption within the police.

The first of them created the Chamorro Registry, which served as the mechanism for registration of the Chamorro people to vote on self determination.

Some OIAs, including development finance institutions, provide technical assistance and funding for feasibility studies, project development and project start up.

In the short term, dollar depreciation does not affect supply and demand, but it does affect speculation and investment in oil futures markets. As the dollar declines, commodities including oil attract investors.

As the dollar declines, commodities including oil attract investors. Investing in futures becomes both a hedge against a weakening dollar and an investment vehicle that could yield substantial profit, particularly in a climate of vanishing excess oil production capacity, increasing demand, declining interest rates, a slumping real estate market, and crisis in the banking industry.

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This could be tackled in various ways, including tax holidays for investments in health care and liberalization of investment in hospital and medical institutions, including financing by banks and financial institutions.

A dominant theme has been that the performance of the energy sector as a whole needs to be improved before it is possible to deal with access and poverty issues, which, for improving rural access in particular, requires significant investments with relatively low returns.

In addition, there was excessive investment in speculative assets, such as real estate and stocks, which rendered the banks and finance companies vulnerable to an economic slowdown.

This means that in order not to miss out on the GII, developing countries need to attract private investors to their telecom sector.

46. Enterprise level diversification in developing countries has often been financed through organic growth , i.e., reinvestment of profits, through loan based investment.

Greater opportunities in trade and investment are even more important than cooperation.

Nonetheless, the European Union believed that the statutes of those agencies should be strictly respected and had therefore abstained in the vote on the draft resolution on that question.

110. The extent of speculation on housing has meant that, for thousands of people, the right to be properly housed has been increasingly difficult to realize.

There has also been a considerable effort to encourage investment, in particular for the establishment of several training institutions (API, APIA, AFI ...) and of a number of assistance funds to provide financing for the projects of small and medium sized enterprises (FOPRODI, FONAPRA, etc.).

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

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4. Other capital providers Capital providers other than commercial banks and international financial institutions may include institutional investors such as insurance companies, mutual funds, pension funds or investment funds.

Now, the Euro was a newly born currency of great opportunity for business, and, of course, for investment.

First, an IPA typically carries out the various activities that give effect to image building and investment promotion campaigns, such as distribution of promotional brochures, advertising in world media, participation in investment forums and the like.

More flexible mechanisms, such as large scale thematic funding for girls' education, are also helping in the acceleration effort.

Can IPAs screen investment and also facilitate it?

UNCTAD began work in 2004 on a new technical assistance project to assist the Palestinian Investment Promotion Agency (PIPA) in implementing an Investment Retention Programme, aimed at providing investment support services to existing enterprises in coping with and surviving the present crisis.