Private internal and external investment returned.

China is running external surpluses because its saving exceeds its investment.

Vice Ministry of Public Investment and External Finance (Ministry of Finance)

Special communiqué on the swapping of external debt for investment in education

In Bangladesh we have created a highly congenial climate for external investment.

The saving investment imbalance is fundamental, and it alone determines a country s external position.

External accounts clearly matter, because they reflect the balance between domestic saving and investment.

In addition, laws on domestic and external investment were promulgated on 27 May and are expected to encourage foreign direct investment in Timor Leste.

Indeed, a stronger currency can paradoxically feed external surpluses, while discouraging investment in export oriented industries.

5. Vanuatu depends on concessional external assistance for a large proportion of its public sector investment.

These resources could be complemented by external financing through international trade and investment and official development assistance.

These measures are aimed at channelling external flows to fixed capital investment, export diversification and technological modernization.

This emphasis on external finance stems from the consensus that there will be a considerable investment savings gap in Africa that must be filled by external resources.

We need to provide better focused public investment and improve the quality of external resources if we are to promote trade and investment on more equitable terms.

Reducing dependence on external demand for example, by promoting private sector investment and encouraging household expenditure is crucial.

External macroeconomic forces trade, debt management, direct investment, capital flows and access to technology must support development objectives.

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

Today, by contrast, although domestic investment is growing very strongly, external demand has not recovered to its previous levels.

Foreign direct investment continued to be the largest source of external financing for developing countries and economies in transition.

We therefore urge that country to improve the legal and institutional framework for private investment and for external trade.

As a result, whenever the US dollar declines, China s net international investment position (the difference between its external financial assets and liabilities) deteriorates and so does its investment income balance.

As regards the investment decision making process, some members of the Board suggested that there should be more than one investment adviser, and that the management of the investments should be entrusted to external investment managers who would be under the supervision of the Investment Management Service.

Rather, savings should be channeled even more and more efficiently to domestic investment in order to avoid large external imbalances.

In the field of investment in infrastructure, most of the actions taken by Governments are investments made through external assistance.

In addition, although net direct investment flows have become for developing countries the most stable external source of finance for productive investment, they have shown pro cyclical behaviour in recent years.

First, I fully share the feeling that such external macroeconomic parameters as access to external markets, debt management, direct investment, capital flows and access to technology must promote the objectives of development.

In Spain and Ireland, a housing boom exacerbated external imbalances by reducing national saving, pumping up consumption, and boosting residential investment.

63. Following the break with China in 1978, Albania renounced all requests for external financing the use of external credit, international assistance or foreign investment having been prohibited by the Constitution of 1976.

3. Emphasizes that the international financial system, along with enhanced official and private external financing and foreign direct investment, are key elements for a durable solution to the external debt problems of developing countries

Faced with sluggish external demand, weak domestic consumption, rising labor costs, and low productivity, China depends excessively on investment to drive economic growth.

It funded the investment imperatives of economic development and boosted the cushion of foreign exchange reserves that has shielded China from external shocks.

Although corporate profits and business investment have been increasing, business sentiment remains cautious, because growth in Japan remains heavily dependent on external demand.

Nevertheless, given the pressures on external accounts and uncertainties regarding the continuity of foreign loans, credit and investment, the 1992 experience does not seem to be a new form of self sustained growth based on external resources.

While the private sector (domestic and external) drives these shifts, government policies and public sector investment patterns play an essential supporting and complementary role.

America needs to expand its share in external global demand, which requires public sector investment, structural change, and improved competitiveness in the tradable sector.

As articulated by NEPAD, the channels for external resource flows to African countries are official development assistance (ODA), debt relief, trade and foreign investment.

The LDCs have limited access to international financial markets and to foreign direct investment (FDI) and depend mostly on ODA for their external financing.

(d) To improve the mobilization and efficient use and management of domestic and external resources and to develop an enabling savings and investment environment

One such mechanism might be a re examination of the idea of converting external debt into investment and into projects with proven social impact.

In that way, we can make investment and social spending sustainable in the medium and long term and thereby reduce our dependence on external resources.

It requires sizeable and critical amounts of external financing, such as grant assistance, loans, export earnings and foreign direct investment or other capital market flows.

The external borrowing to meet the necessary investment in various sectors of the economy has to meet stringent conditions quot imposed quot by international agencies.

It is necessary that external capital flows not only maintain continuity in terms of their global dimension but also provide stable financing of productive investment.

It had achieved an economic growth rate of 10 per cent and had made policy decisions which had created an environment conducive to external investment.

Weak external demand is partly responsible for the falloff in growth, but internal factors namely, slowing investment and stagnating consumption are also holding back economic expansion.