The investment deficiency in Asia relative to rates of a decade ago amounts to an annual shortfall of 400 billion a year, with the decline in investment in Japan a consequence of more than a decade of economic stagnation accounting for more than half of the total.

The surplus has narrowed because investment has been ramped up even higher, to roughly 49 of GDP.

The total compensation of 937 million ( 3.4 million) was the largest sum ever awarded by a Japanese court.

Funding for this strategy increased almost four fold in 2004 2005, for a total investment of  40 million.

Export growth was often very fast, as in the Philippines, Mexico, and to some extent Morocco.

Now GDP growth is slowing, investment is falling, the budget deficit is widening, and the external accounts are weakening.

Local governments indebtedness soared, and fixed investment surged toward an unprecedented 50 of GDP.

In the US, neither R D nor overall investment is declining. Indeed, many industries pursue long term investments, notwithstanding their short term stockholders.

Governments often become enamored of innovative sectors, such as semiconductors, that account for only a very small share of total investment.

And, as GDP growth has become increasingly dependent on government led investment, currency demand has continued to rise.

Its imbalances have gotten worse as well, with the investment share of GDP approaching 50 and private consumption falling below 35 of GDP.

While the increase in investment reduced the saving GDP ratio, the resulting increase in imports lowered the trade surplus GDP ratio.

With the housing sector accounting for 10 of GDP and investment in real estate development accounting for 25 of total fixed investment, any decision to rein in runaway housing prices will be difficult.

By 2010, this will account for 0.56 per cent of the Union's collective gross national income an annual additional 20 billion euros.

OFDI from developing countries rose from 147 billion in 1990 to over 1 trillion in 2004.

As a result, FDI collapsed to less than 0.5 of GDP annually in 2011 2012.

The amount of money necessary to achieve the target would require public spending on primary education of nearly 1.63 per cent of GDP in the year 2015.

Today, domestic investment has plummeted, exports are languishing, and GDP growth is down to around 4.5 per year.

This is reflected in the current investment ratio for real capital assets of 43 of GDP, compared to 4.3 investment in human capital in the form of education.

China s real estate investment accounted for 10 of GDP, and slower investment growth in the sector necessarily reduces import demand, directly and indirectly.

In the early stages of the post war transition, FDI increased rapidly, rising from 1.2 of GDP in 2002 to a peak of 4.3 of GDP in 2005.

Total fixed asset investment amounted to 41.6 of GDP, on average, peaking at 67 of GDP in 2009, a level that would be unthinkable in most developed countries.

Is it possible that the cash rich corporate sector will more than make up for the slack by increasing investment? There may well be some increase in gross investment, as obsolete equipment and software are replaced.

In fact, fixed business investment as a share of GDP is some 2 lower today than 4 years ago.

The key to restoring China s GDP growth is, therefore, returning fixed asset investment growth to at least 25 .

Of the total amount due for distribution of 3,624,342 as at 31 December 2004, an amount of 536,534 was applied against the 2005 assessments.

In 1995 2010, when China s average annual GDP growth rate was 9.9 , fixed asset investment (investment in infrastructure and real estate projects) increased by a factor of 11.2, rising at an average annual rate of 20 .

In 2004, the volume of foreign direct investment in South East Europe reached the level of 5 per cent of the regional countries' collective gross domestic product.

Sources World Bank, World Bank Development Indicators 2005 (GDP per capita) and UNCTAD, UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics, 2004 (inward FDI).

The problem is that the investment share of China s GDP is already about 50 , while double digit investment growth in 2013 is expected to push that rate still higher.

A drop of one percentage point in China s investment rate is estimated to reduce Taiwan s GDP growth rate by 0.9 percentage points and Korea s by 0.6 percentage points.

First, governments need to focus on sectors in which action is likely to trigger renewed investment on a scale large enough to boost GDP and quickly enough to enable private investment to drive the recovery.

But growth at this level reflects an unprecedented and unsustainable rise in domestic investment to nearly 50 of GDP.

In total, fourteen Pacific island countries shared U.S. 79.3 million (less than 4 percent) towards their GDPs from locally based offshore fishing vessels in 1999. This is a short term pay off as many of the vessels that are now fishing in this region have arrived after destroying their own and African fisheries.

Investors around the world would take on Japanese GDP risk in return for an expected yield, just as with catastrophe bonds.

China currently saves and invests half of its GDP, but, as its workforce shrinks in the coming years, its investment rate is likely to fall sharply.

So China is stuck in a currency creating cycle GDP growth encourages investment, which boosts demand for capital.

Liberia has the highest ratio of foreign direct investment to GDP in the world, with US 16 billion in investment since 2006.

According to preliminary reports, annual investment growth in 2012 reached roughly 14 significantly higher than the GDP growth rate, which accelerated in the fourth quarter as a result of a strong rebound in investment in real estate and infrastructure.

Together with the fees for other legal opinions which the Service will seek for clarification of the various issues that arise during the course of investments, 250,000 is estimated for the biennium.

While the share of private and public consumption in GDP increased from 117 per cent in 1999 to 134 per cent in 2004, the share of total investment dropped from 43 per cent to 27 per cent.

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And, with growing over capacity, investment in goods production may fall even further, with serious implications for GDP.

As far as Chinese demand is concerned, investment in infrastructure is continuing, although the share of capital investment in GDP has been approaching very high levels.

The explanatory notes following the budget presentation set forth the basis used for calculating the proposed budgets.