Second, an IPA usually also undertakes activities related to investor targeting, including identifying potential investors preparing investment profiles and feasibility studies making direct contact with prospective investors and bringing to bear all kinds of marketing and selling skills to generate an investment.

Roughly half of the surveyed IPAs conduct feasibility studies.

Hearings on possible multilateral framework on investment

The representative of Afghanistan underscored that institutional reforms to promote predictability and transparency in the investment area had been put in place in his country, and an IPR under an Invest in Peace type of initiative could help his country to pursue reforms and adjustments to attract FDI.

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.

Green Municipal Funds and other revolving funds could provide grants and loans for feasibility studies and investment in innovative projects.

(d) Making strategic investments to build capacities for the future.

(d) Make strategic investments to build capacities for the future.

Finally, creating an investment friendly environment by having political, social and economic stability would greatly enhance the possibilities of foreign investments in emerging markets.

Technical assistance consists primarily of partial support for feasibility studies and also some start up support, particularly for smaller or less experienced investors.

It was clarified that the direct investments made by the foreign investors from their allocated profits included the equity investments made by the foreign investors from their allocated profits, such as capital increase, new construction, and share acquisition, but excluded the new shares, turning point increase shares, and acquisition of shares from the listed companies except the eligible strategic investments.

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

The SBI may wish to seek further views from NGOs and from Parties as to the feasibility of such funding.

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.

An investment grade rating reflects the credit rating agencies' belief that the probability of payment of the bond is high and the financial risk associated with the investment is low.

In terms of this Retention Licence, the investors must submit annual reviews of their feasibility study to demonstrate that the project remains uneconomic.

He saw a major role for international investment agreements in creating stability and predictability, and agreed that there was no real contradiction between investor protection and development objectives.

Investment costs are significant for the establishment of viable processing plants and for undertaking marketing efforts.

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.

6. Notes that the Board encouraged the Investment Management Service of the Fund to adhere to the principles of the Global Compact to the extent possible without compromising the four established investment criteria of safety, profitability, liquidity and convertibility, and urged the Investment Management Service to continue its efforts to collect tax refunds from several Member States

Reforming subsidies that encourage unsustainable water use could encourage water conservation and investments in water saving technologies and practices.

Investment pooling has permitted Treasury to limit very short term deposits to approximately 20 to 25 per cent of investments, allowing the remainder to be held in marketable fixed income securities.

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

It requires extensive research to identify firms that are likely candidates to invest in the country and ways in which those investments can be made to meet investor needs and development objectives.

In that regard, the Bank was spearheading efforts to develop an appropriate investment framework for clean energy and sustainable development and identify pragmatic investment and financing options.

The Government has made a strategic and productive investment in education.

Above all, let us not forget the need to invest in development.

Many projects, from airports to university campuses, benefit from returns over decades, which implies that weak demand in the short term will have only a limited impact on their overall viability. Even among more near term projects, some for example, retrofitting buildings with more energy efficient features could become viable with action from policymakers.

Financial liberalization would attract foreign capital seeking high returns in capital scarce countries, allowing them to invest more than they saved.

We can offer people the grand continuity of experience and personal investment.

That's not a very nice thing to do, the investment banker added.

This called for a new, multilateral approach to FDI that would provide the predictability, consistency, transparency and stability required to expand investment flows, including to developing countries, and WTO should initiate work in this regard.

By realigning the Fund's investment, infrastructure and team configuration, a number of the audit recommendations made to the Investment Management Service in the past few years can be implemented.

An UNCTAD 1996 survey of 80 investment promotion agencies (IPAs) wordwide shows that 73 per cent of the IPAs have a system of some sort for identifying and attracting investors, and assessing their economic and financial strengths.

(a) How effective are the various tools of the trade advertising and media campaigns project profiles and feasibility studies investment forums and missions making direct contact with specific investors or groups facilitation and aftercare?

Also, an investment team specialized in developing countries and in alternative investments would increase the probability of higher investment returns and would also offer a better risk management capability as a result of further diversification.

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?

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Obviously, the impact companies can have in these areas depends on the nature of the investment (with the likelihood of linkage creation being higher in domestic market seeking FDI than in export oriented FDI) and on the quality of the local suppliers.

In addition, individual investments can lead to sequential investments by the same investor or associated investment by other firms thus creating agglomeration effects.

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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.

(b) In order to establish accountability, the Investment Management Service should either (i) ensure that the fixed income investment officer acts with greater independence in the management of the portfolio or (ii) consider outsourcing the fixed income portfolio while maintaining the investment officer to monitor the performance of the outsourced portfolio (AS2003 801 02 011)

Bilateral investment treaties and their relevance to a possible

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