Because trade and investment agreements and relations remain unfair there is a growing gap between the rich and the poor.

The widening gap between national savings and domestic investment affirms the widely held view that inflows of external resources are most critical to achieving accelerated investment and growth.

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.

It is estimated 3 that the latter gap averaged 9 per cent of GDP during the first half of the 1990s for Africa.

Section II briefly reviews the growth experience of African countries and discusses trends in savings and investment since 1992, factors affecting the savings rate, the widening gap between investment needs and domestic savings and the increasing need for higher inflows of external resources to fill the gaps.

The second, Private Finance for Human Development, aims to close the gap between the abundance of investable private finance and the unfulfilled financial needs of poor people.

Theoretically, thus, there should not be any wage gaps between men and women.

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At the same time, aggregate net resource flows to Africa over the past five years have not increased to fill the growing gap between investment needs and domestic savings.

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Moreover, there was still a gap between assessed needs and available funds.

Many developing countries are trapped on the wrong side of the technology divide and the investment gap.

They convert investor intentions into actual investment and ensure continued satisfaction through the life of the investment ( aftercare ).

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quot Is there a cost to ethical investing quot ? (privately published investment research report).

If information was to play a constructive role, it must keep up with the latest developments in ICT and not use them to widen the gap between developed and developing countries.

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In order to address the gap between reality and perception, the United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the Global Footprint Network (GFN), together with a number of institutional investors, investment managers, and information providers, have launched E RISC, or Environmental Risk in Sovereign Credit analysis.

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However, shortcomings were also acknowledged for example, low innovation levels, lack of sufficient R D investment, and distance from key markets.

The largest scope for renewed private investment is in capital intensive sectors in which government has a major presence as regulator. Even if European countries were to close only 10 of the variation in capital stock per worker at the subsector level, the impact could be more than 360 billion in additional investment offsetting the 354 billion difference in private investment between 2007 and 2011.