Uses of domestic capital markets

Very few LDC enterprises have been engaged in capital goods or even intermediate goods production.

Particularly important have been increases in the prices of imported fuel, capital goods and consumer goods.

The key is to reflect on six kinds of capital goods business capital, infrastructure, human capital, intellectual capital, natural capital, and social capital. All of these are productive, but each has a distinctive role.

In relation to certain categories of goods, for example capital goods, distribution services do not necessarily play an important role.

But for many developing countries, exporting is a simple matter of expediency, whereby in the absence of a domestic capital goods sector, financing imports linked to faster growth faces an unavoidable payments constraint.

The consequent instability in export earnings has adverse effects on domestic savings and government budgets, as well as on the import supply of intermediate and capital goods and hence on investment and growth.

Rich countries, by contrast, are able to export more capital intensive goods, and thus have a greater need for investment. So they may be importing more capital resulting in a greater current account deficit simply because they are producing more capital intensive goods.

Private property, as well as domestic capital, should strengthen their positions.

Differential Productivity of Foreign and Domestic Capital, Foreign Capital Penetration, Socio Political Environments and Economic Growth A Re examination of Capital Dependency, by Indra De Soysa

Secondly, the gross domestic product must be expanded so as to produce goods and services for the domestic, regional and international markets.

(a) Bilateral financing is granted to women's groups as subsidies to allow women to build up their working capital or to acquire capital goods.

Documentation HSP WUF 2 7 Financing and mobilizing domestic capital for slum upgrading.

To support domestic capital there should be a change of priority in privatization.

Finally, the policies also contributed to growth by easing key macroeconomic constraints on capital accumulation, including particularly the balance of payments constraint on capital goods imports.

Private domestic capital formation is the largest source of new investment in developing communities.

Private capital flows play an increasingly important role in supplementing developing countries' domestic resources.

First of all, the increased investment is unlikely to have been in tradeable goods sectors since that would have involved a surge in imports of capital goods.

Thus, medium to long term strategies are needed to raise domestic capital for this purpose.

Options include international debt financing, domestic tax revenue and user fees, borrowing in domestic capital markets, and public private partnerships for water related investments.

This can only be done if a more robust domestic accumulation process is established across the region and based on a denser network of linkages between the rural and urban economies, across sectors, and among consumer, intermediate and capital goods industries.

Globalization encompasses the varying degrees of increasing integration of world markets of goods, services, capital, technology and labour.

Since the sub Saharan economies depend heavily on imports for capital goods, a faster rate of investment will give rise to an associated rise in imports of such goods.

HSP WUF 2 7 Dialogue on urban resources financing and mobilizing domestic capital for slum upgrading

Where trade regimes have not differentiated between essential and non essential imports, the tendency has been for imports of consumer goods to rise faster than those of intermediate and capital goods.

Duty was lowered to 5 per cent on capital goods utilized in upgrading existing hotel facilities, and later expanded to cover goods used to develop additional rooms for existing hotel facilities.

African countries must restructure their domestic financial sectors and develop capital markets and non bank financial institutions.

Borrowing in domestic currency avoids the risks associated with currency mismatches and pro cyclical foreign capital flows.

Jacqueline Novogratz shares stories of how patient capital can bring sustainable jobs, goods, services and dignity to the world's poorest.

Bosnia and Herzegovina shall not impede full freedom of movement of persons, goods, services and capital throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Moreover, the contraction in economic activity was associated with a severe compression of imports, primarily capital goods and intermediate inputs.

The reduction of taxes on daily consumer goods directly benefits the consumers and promotes the competitiveness of domestic industries.

The effects of liberalization and deregulation could be assessed along three dimensions (i) impact on the domestic distribution sector at large, including SMEs (ii) the effect on domestic suppliers of goods, in particular agricultural products, and services (iii) impact on international trade in goods and services.

However, domestic capital market development requires wide ranging reform and achieving coherence between the policies is not easy.

(iv) The growth of domestic capital markets, particularly in developing countries, and its relationship with foreign portfolio investment.

Today migrants are treated worse than capital or commercial goods we are always looking to provide freedom of transit for these.

To draw up unified principles for quality control of goods imported into the territory of participating States and agreed lists of goods requiring temporary protection on the domestic markets of participating States

A country s production structure may very well determine how much capital it supplies and how much it needs. So the fact that capital may flow towards rich countries that produce and export more capital intensive goods should not be so puzzling, after all.

Provision of venture capital to newly emerging innovative firms may also attract international firms to collaborate with domestic firms.

It will be difficult to ease these inflationary pressures this year. International commodity prices will continue to rise, increases in domestic labor costs and prices of non tradable goods cannot easily be stemmed, the international economic situation will encourage further capital inflows, and asset inflation will persist.

Countries that are not attractive to private capital suppliers relied primarily on official financing to supplement domestic savings while countries that have access to private capital markets enjoyed relevant financial inflows.

As a result, private capital flows to developing countries have increased substantially, and have complemented domestic savings and external assistance.

The vertical programmes focused on four areas deemed strategic to Brazil's industrial development and international trade position microelectronics, software, pharmaceuticals and capital goods.

Supported the fight against the illegal movement of capital supporting terrorist activities and the smuggling of goods, arms and narcotic drugs across their borders.

13. Success in augmenting investment in SSA industries and infrastructure depends on increased export earnings to finance the import of capital and intermediate goods.