Invest wisely, safely at least.

Too Much Saving, Too Little Investment

I have spent quite a lot of money on her.

I should hope so. It's costing enough.

Last year, Brazil's green investment (in the investment model of building factories abroad) was 17.9 billion, a year on year fall of 2.1 .

(f) Under paragraph 20 (i), on investment issues World Investment Report, it is proposed to reduce the allocation by half (reduction of 120,000)

The volume of FDI was inadequate.

Redevelopment.

Greenfield investments are less common, since these generally imply much larger risks and financial commitments for the investing enterprise.

But how much you want to invest is going to depend on how much longer you expect to live in the future, even if you don't make those investments.

(b) Increase research and development investment for low waste and cleaner technologies

Public investment sustained a drop of 19.5 between 1989 and 1990.

These flows, mainly foreign direct investment, are, however, concentrated in a few large developing countries, while flows to other regions have been in steady decline.

International investors rank future investment opportunities in Africa far lower than elsewhere (see figure 2), even though actual rates of return on existing investments in Africa compare more favourably to those in other regions.For evidence on rates of return see UNCTAD, Foreign Direct Investment in Africa, Current Studies, Series.

Invest, invest, invest.

(c) The day to day monitoring of investment and operational activities is critical

But public sector support and domestic investment are crucial.

It is rare to get an exogenous investment in girls' education.

Privatizations had been the main engine behind the FDI flows, though the dependence upon too few investing countries had not permitted proper differentiation.

But this does not mean that all investment should come to an end. If the risk can be eliminated, the investment engine can be kept going, at least temporarily.

The National Investment Council was now meeting much more frequently than in the past and had reduced the approval time for new investment projects.

Wishing to promote investments in human development over the entire lifespan and in preserving and supporting age integrated social institutions,

Small capitalization equity investments require frequent visits to companies for purposes of research as less information is provided by investment advisers and brokerage houses on these types of investments.

38. Third, a country s vulnerability was more likely to be reduced by investments that fostered broad based development than by investments in a few capital based projects and sectors.

A major opportunity exists to leverage the investments already made, and to minimize those that will continue to be made.

We believe that large dividends in threat reduction can be achieved with a relatively modest investment.

15. The representative of Bangladesh drew attention to the fact that FDI in Bangladesh had decreased in 1996, despite liberalization and provision of a number of investment incentives by the Government.

The latest World Investment Report referred to the level of investment by pharmaceutical TNCs in Brazil but showed how only a few of these firms actually invested in research and development in the country.

All we lack is the action to actually spend the money to put those into place.

Many of these BITs are yet to enter into force, however.

Water demand management policies could also be used for reducing the waste water volumes and required investment in sewerage.

The Forum stressed the need to better understand the scale, potential and opportunities for outward investment from developing countries, in particular South South investment, and to explore ways in which the risks and constraints associated with outward investment among developing countries, in particular investment flows to LDCs, could be mitigated.

How much FDI, and what price, are key issues that should not be lost sight of in devising investment promotion measures.

At least one international telecommunications company had expressed interest in shared investment.

Public investment in this sector declined by 29.1 between 1985 and 1989 and by a further 64.7 between 1989 and 1994.

One answer lies in the fact that China s FDI policy over the past 30 years has crowded out Chinese investors from high return projects, forcing them to settle for less lucrative projects. But there are still potential investors who cannot find any suitable investment opportunities in China, generating excess resources, which in turn are invested in US government securities.

But there are fundamental reasons to believe that the eurozone s investment rate will remain permanently depressed. The often invoked investment gap is mostly a result of wishful thinking, and the remaining barriers to investment have little to do with a lack of financing.

Where Member States invest scarce resources, we have an obligation to maximize their impact.

Luxembourg and Spain, both major recipients of FDI in 2003, received lower FDI inflows last year.

11. Environmental investments total investments

Singapore's OFDI to Malaysia declined from 60 per cent in 1981 to 17 per cent in 1996 and 8 per cent in 2003.

As a result, net domestic resources available for investment, as represented by domestic savings less net transfers abroad (or gross national savings), were reduced by that much, thereby adversely affecting the level of domestic investment and increasing the gap between investment and savings.

Youth and persons with a physical or intellectual disability are also targeted by these investments.

If inward FDI stock data from recipient countries are used, the value of South South FDI is higher, at least about 700 billion.

Providing banks and investors with more accurate and comprehensive information for SME applicants can dramatically reduce the risk of the investment or loan.