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

The involvement of private investment is still relatively low.

Higher rates of economic growth could not be sustained without increased investment, especially in research and development which was crucial to boosting productivity while improving the quality of human capital and technology.

Moreover, simply pointing to the higher returns on FDI in Africa as indicative of missed investment opportunities is a misleading guide for policy makers.

The more successful investment promotion programmes target specific types of investors.

However, foreign direct investment in developing countries, as well as the recent parallel surge in international portfolio investment, has been concentrated in the more advanced economies, the larger economies and those with high rates of economic growth.

Investment costs for integrated systems, however, remain high since they are based on complex installations while, on the other hand, their operating costs are often low.

The more established IPAs maintain offices abroad for the purpose of directly generating investment.

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36. With regard to the promotion of inward FDI, countries needed to elaborate a promotion strategy targeting investors and to identify the comparative advantages they could offer the latter, as well as impediments to investment.

Highly focused investment forums and other high visibility events are planned by and in cooperation with the network in order to increase the flow of investment and technology into developing countries.

The developed world still accounts for nine tenths of world outward FDI flows, but FDI from developing countries has shown higher growth rates in the recent past.

This is so because the latter have a higher capacity not only for taking risks but also for self financing and raising funds in capital markets for investment purposes.

The least developed countries in the South had transferred to their northern creditors four times what they invested in the health of their people.

Another major exporter, Thailand, has relatively higher costs. This has led major Thai companies to invest in China.

4. With regard to the promotion of inward FDI, experts noted that the more successful investment promotion programmes target specific types of investors.

The efficiency of this form of warfare is increased by the fact that many of those capabilities may be constituted with comparatively small investments.

Women civilian personnel on higher pay scales

Assistance to smaller firms with little experience in investment projects abroad and with limited financial means is particularly important, especially in the first stages of the investment process.

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

The share of inward FDI in the distribution sector is relatively small as most investment is directed towards the oil and gas industry.

As for the number of new investors, there were about 310,000 new investors each week in July, which still stayed at a low level.

118. A higher rate of remuneration is also payable for work done at night.

Higher risks mean that the return on an investment needs to be higher in order to make the venture worthwhile, and thus, many potential diversification activities never take place because the high profit benchmark cannot be reached.

DPKO has advised OIOS that a subsequent bidding exercise resulted in a higher price for those products.

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.

It should be added that financial capital will also lodge in those countries or places which offer and deliver greater speculative flexibility.

However, some wealthier developing countries, notably Chile, did achieve a faster pace of investment and growth based on their natural resource endowments.

A summary of the investments as at 31 December 1997, and a comparison of their cost and market values, will be found in annex II, schedules 2 and 3.

The broader context in which the discussions take place is laid out in the World Investment Report, 1996 Investment, Trade and International Policy Arrangements, Part Three and relevant international investment instruments are contained in International Investment Instruments A Compendium (see box for details).UNCTAD apos s ongoing work in the area of

The greater the risk, either the higher the premium that investors require, or if it is deemed unacceptable, tohey seek other destinations for their investment.

Goldman Sachs projected 2027.

The critical role played by higher rates of private sector investment, as well as investments in public infrastructure, in removing supply constraints was generally recognized as being a central lesson which should be taken from East Asia to other developing countries.

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They live longer, go further in school, and tend to bear fewer and more prosperous children as they invest more in the children they do have. Studies have shown that investments in health care can yield a six fold economic return.

The problem with both free market and Keynesian economics is that they misunderstand the nature of modern investment. Both schools believe that investment is led by the private sector, either because taxes and regulations are low (in the free market model) or because aggregate demand is high (in the Keynesian model).

Considering the relatively small portion of the Fund's asset invested in such equities, one can easily understand that outsourcing this type of investment is a reasonable option.

If its is intended that a bidder from a punctual Member State may be preferred over bidders from Member States in arrears (even if these offer better quality for better price), it would seem necessary to establish a range of price variation above the lowest acceptable bidder within which the decisive criterion would be the nationality of the bidder (for example, a higher bidder may be selected in no more than x above the lowest acceptable bidder).

The low costs of finance facilitated global investment, thereby contributing to the acceleration of global growth in 2004.

(d) Alternative investments offer the opportunity for an enhanced risk return profile for a pension investment portfolio.

Institutions that facilitate outward investment are particularly important for encouraging South South FDI, as their programmes are mostly relevant for firms with little experience in overseas projects and geared to facilitate FDI in locations that are associated with higher political and commercial risks (UNCTAD, 1999).

The second level would be more costly, and the third the most expensive.

There can be two types of improvement in productivity productivity growth based on high and rising rates of investment associated with rising employment and a one off increase in labour productivity associated with static efficiency gains resulting from labour shedding under conditions of stagnant or declining investment.

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.

Much of African OFDI takes place in neighbouring countries. South African firms have used their relatively lower cost of capital to invest in other African countries where capital markets were not developed.