However, Merkel s focus may well remain on trade, investment, and currency flows.

An emphasis on investment shifts the focus of development strategy to the entrepreneurial class and its interaction with the state, including whether and how public investment crowds in private investment.

Investment in agriculture in Africa must focus on creating a dynamic smallholder sector.

It will focus on the development dimension of international investment and technology flows, the interface of global processes and national policy making and the integration of investment, technology and enterprise development policies.

This initiative should be supported unequivocally, serving as a springboard for a stronger focus on green investment among SWFs.

This initiative should be supported unequivocally, serving as a springboard for a stronger focus on green investment among SWFs.

Restoring balance and eliminating the distortions will require time, investment, and structural change, and should be the central focus of America s economic policy.

The main aim of the councils would be to help to focus the efforts of Governments on creating an environment that is conducive to investment.

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.

Programmes such as the establishment enhancement of a standards, metrology and certification infrastructure, supply chain management, information networking, enhancing capacity of investment related institutions, regulatory frameworks for investment promotion and technology development and transfer will be the focus area for these countries.

The growing importance of the South in the global economy was highlighted most recently at the G77 High Level Forum Meeting, held in Doha in December 2004, which addressed the issue of investment with a special focus on South South investment flows.

CRM systems available for specific markets (legal, finance) frequently focus on event management and relationship tracking as opposed to financial return on investment (ROI).

At their meeting in Durban in March, the five countries leaders announced that their New Development Bank will focus on infrastructure investment in developing countries, which, they said, was constrained by insufficient long term financing and foreign direct investment.

The Strategic Partnership will also focus on trade and investment facilitation programmes, which will allow for a consistent and profitable flow of goods and services between the two regions.

There has been a strengthened focus on South South cooperation, which has seen trade among developing countries growing faster than their total export trade and an increasing flow of investment.

On a regional level, the investment focus is to be on the Black Sea, the North Sea region, the Caspian region, the Middle East and Sub Saharan Africa.

Investment in tools that focus on development, capacity building for mediation and peacebuilding is needed to ensure that existing conflicts are resolved, as well as future ones prevented.

The frustrations of dealing with an undecided Europe have led Turkish policymakers to focus their efforts on an area where the expected return on their investment is more immediate and more concrete.

Both programmes can influence large scale investments to focus more on poverty reduction targets and encourage the participation of local level stakeholders in decision making processes to ensure more equitable distribution of investment benefits.

Three of MIGA's focus areas were the facilitation of infrastructure expansion, concentration on conflict afflicted countries in need of post crisis reconstruction through private investment, and frontier markets that were underperforming in terms of attracting FDI.

The focus has been appropriately on the cash flow challenges that come from a combination of large illiquid investment portfolios and large systemic shocks that cause adverse shifts in the cash flow models.

The SED meeting next week in Beijing will focus on five areas integrity of trade and product safety balanced economic development, including financial sector reform energy efficiency and security environmental sustainability and bilateral investment.

We seek to reaffirm the need for a specific focus on synergies and interrelationship between aid, trade and investment, debt relief and good governance, including in the coordination and the effective use of aid.

Mr. Darmawan Djajusman, Director of Investment Deregulation, Investment Coordinating Board, Indonesia

Investment of funds

During the biennium 2006 2007, the focus will be on enhancing the reliability of internal controls, further developing the systems for investment and cash management and increasing the proportion of payments effected through electronic and other secure means.

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But Chinese policymakers should focus more on reducing the trade surplus and less on reducing investment spending that is, they should emphasize renminbi (RMB) appreciation over higher interest rates to cool the economy.

(d) In view of the size and diversification of the investment portfolio, the Investment Management Service should increase the number of investment managers or review the possibility of hiring additional discretionary investment advisers (AS2001 95 1 14)

Profitability index (PI), also known as profit investment ratio (PIR) and value investment ratio (VIR), is the ratio of payoff to investment of a proposed project.

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NEW YORK At this year s International Monetary Fund World Bank spring meetings in Washington, DC, the IMF urged European countries to ease their austerity policies and focus on investment, marking a shift from past rhetoric.

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This treaty improved the investment climate and encouraged investment.

It undermines possibilities of investment.

Investment Policy Review of Colombia.

Jack Bogle, who built his investment management company, the Vanguard Group, on exactly this principle, with a clear focus on lower fees at every opportunity, has come out strongly in favor of the administration's proposal. Unfortunately, his remains a lonely voice.

But there is an even better investment. We can achieve three times the economic benefits, and even larger reductions in the number of people at risk of hunger, if we focus on improving food production rather than just on preventing food losses.

An investment in youth is an investment in the future.

Investment promotion The Advisory Service on Investment and Training (ASIT)

There are limits to outward investment, lack of insurance for outward investment, and exchange rate controls.

I gotta focus.

Applying strategic focus.

His company reflects that singularity of focus.