C. Investing in physical infrastructure

TRADE AND INVESTMENT, TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE AND

As a result, massive infrastructural investments were made, dramatically improving the quality of the telecommunications infrastructure.

Cuba supported investment that created infrastructure and contributed capital, market and technology elements.

(iii) Encourage the participation of foreign private investment in infrastructure development

C Investment climate and international competitiveness

It has to be investing in low carbon technologies and infrastructures.

China s investment consists of mainly three broad categories manufacturing industry, infrastructure, and real estate. In late 2008 and 2009, at the height of the global financial crisis, stimulus fueled infrastructure investment sustained output growth.

It includes accelerated construction of roads for those settlements, a multi year housing investment plan and new infrastructure.

First, is the possibility of setting up an Asian Investment Bank to meet the region's infrastructure needs in the light of the slowdown in infrastructure development in the region.

(c) Poverty alleviation by, inter alia, increasing investments on infrastructure and basic services

Lastly, running and investment expenditure will have to comply with a Master Infrastructure Plan.

Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure and discipline.

Efforts could also be made to develop physical and economic infrastructure and human capital in order to attract and absorb foreign investment flows.

The economy grows, government accumulates more resources, and the government can invest in infrastructure rather than infrastructure being a cause for economic growth.

Infrastructure projects require extensive planning and significant upfront investment.

Investing in the development of national S T education and training infrastructure

Foreign direct investment is one of the important sources for building infrastructure.

Concurrently, greater investment in infrastructure is also necessary to achieve higher rates of growth.

African agriculture requires substantial investments in and maintenance of infrastructure, which cannot always be undertaken by the private sector.

Investments in infrastructure and human capital are the bedrock for increasing average productivity and for ensuring high growth over a sustained period of time.

Details of the cooperative rangeland management programme are indicated in annex I to this report.

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Before gaining access to markets, countries must establish a fundamental economic base, including infrastructure and a capacity to attract foreign investment.

A large scale program to reboot America s crumbling infrastructure would go a long way toward addressing this gap between assets and liabilities, providing pension funds with investments with long time horizons (and thus guaranteeing the incomes of tomorrow s retirees) while leveraging private capital for the public good. In fact, US pension funds are already investing in infrastructure, but they are doing so in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.

Inadequate physical infrastructure also continues to cast a shadow over efforts to improve the investment climate.

Governments will continue to be the main investors in the development of large scale water infrastructure.

Foreign investors preferred to invest in countries with better infrastructure, which was not available in least developed countries.

A holistic approach to sanitation could include measures for changing attitude and behaviour as a complement to investments in sanitation facilities and infrastructure.

PRIVATELY FINANCED INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS

Only a revival in US infrastructure investment can create a sustained global economic recovery. The US has the necessary scale to absorb China s surplus, and its inadequate infrastructure provides plenty of avenues for fruitful investment.

Weak infrastructure is an impediment to investment in manufacturing but it can also be an attractive opportunity for the international infrastructure industry.

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This included basic commercial infrastructure (electricity, water, telecommunications, transport facilities, etc.), as well as a legal and regulatory framework which stimulated investment.

As part of the campaign, the Council had also invested some NIS 4 million in infrastructure development.

(a) Engineering infrastructure products, including economic infrastructure roads, bridges, ports, energy infrastructure, water supply and sanitation systems government infrastructure (office buildings, customs facilities, barracks) social infrastructure (education and health services infrastructure, community buildings)

Communities may also be able to mobilize in kind labour contributions for system construction and maintenance and to pool savings for investments in sanitation infrastructure and other community infrastructure.

51. Private investors will not be interested in financing the creation or upgrading of telecom infrastructure unless a critical mass of users can be expected to generate traffic on such infrastructure.

Also, UNCITRAL prepared the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Privately Financed Infrastructure Projects17 and the associated Model Legislative Provisions on Privately Financed Infrastructure Projects18 to assist countries in establishing a legal framework favourable to private investment in public infrastructure.

We should always keep in mind that it is much more cost efficient to invest in modern infrastructure than to pour money into peace enforcement and peace building operations.

ODA remains the major source of investment in infrastructure development in landlocked developing countries.

The scale of the investment required to gain full access to the GII is substantial.

Priority is given to measures to attract foreign investors to ensure the development of the NII, including the telecommunication infrastructure, ICT applications involving software development and human resource training.

The region must further commit itself to a co investor role, mixing private and public investment in physical, technological and institutional infrastructures.

But the pace of investment must take financial constraints fully into consideration. More important, China can and should invest more in social infrastructure such as schools, hospitals, retirement homes, and so on.