The first is the high return on foreign investment in China.

In earlier times, growth was fueled by capital scarcity capital investment attracted a high rate of return, and this created a virtuous circle of saving and investment.

The right target for generating growth is domestic aggregate demand based on the right mix of consumption and high return investment.

The good news is that growing discipline seems to be pushing out low return investment. And there is every reason to believe that investment will remain high as the economy s capital base expands.

Reduced rates of return will lower investment rates.

Return on investment in the case of industrial products.

Designing that system will be an important part of achieving the high return investment and expanded consumption that Chinese leaders want and that China s economy needs.

Also driving China s high investment rate is the declining efficiency of investment capital, reflected in China s high incremental capital output ratio (annual investment divided by annual output growth).

The IMF s role reflects the huge stake that the rest of the world advanced and developing countries alike has in Europe s recovery it is a high return investment.

But safe doesn t mean the investment with the highest safe return.

As countries become more prosperous, one would expect their growth rates to slow. In earlier times, growth was fueled by capital scarcity capital investment attracted a high rate of return, and this created a virtuous circle of saving and investment.

Given that investment banks can only attain high rates of return in a world with volatile asset prices and short term performance goals, companies pressure their managers to follow suit.

This will not be possible without private sector participation, which requires, in turn, a business environment that ensures adequate return on investment, transparency in procurement, and high quality governance and regulation.

Meanwhile, high domestic borrowing costs are undermining private investment.

That means that investment is extremely high and that, despite the high share of infrastructure investment, there is an urgent need to manage the potential risks.

First, spending on high return public investments should be increased.

A return to economic growth is crucial for Europe, which needs secure new investment flows.

Nowadays, markets, price signals, decentralization, incentives, and return driven investment characterize resource allocation almost everywhere.

But gold is also a high risk and highly volatile investment.

In 2004, China's direct investment in Africa reached 135 million, a record high for China's annual direct investment in Africa.

An accelerated public investment program that avoids low return projects is not out of the question.

Without high speed Internet, foreign investment and indigenous entrepreneurship are almost impossible.

Countries that have signed such investment agreements have paid a high price.

Investment is high, but further investment growth risks misallocating money, so reductions in China s trade imbalance may be hard to achieve.

The hurdle rate is the minimum acceptable return on an investment i.e., the project appropriate discount rate.

(d) Alternative investments offer the opportunity for an enhanced risk return profile for a pension investment portfolio.

The past 40 years have demonstrated the remarkable return on investment to be gained in collaborative scientific research.

The education of girls is particularly important as it yields the highest return on investment in developing countries.

Under option one, UNOPS relies on short term, rapid return portfolios to build its investment capital and reserves.

Business investment is also weak, even though large corporations have very high cash balances.

Indeed, rapid growth in investment may translate into high import growth and trade deficits.

The last time China saw such high growth in domestic investment, the savings rate was not as high as it is now.

While wages and incomes are rising now and appear to have broken the iron grip of the surplus labor pool, the growth pattern requires this structural demand side shift toward more disposable income, greater government consumption, and high return investment.

A return to high growth rates globally will require a broader revival of demand.

At the same time, high oil prices have enabled higher social spending and infrastructure investment.

For this purpose, creating an attractive investment climate should be a high and urgent priority.

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 total investment return, which takes into account timing of cash flows for the same period, was 10.4 per cent, representing a real or inflation adjusted return of 7.3 per cent.

In Our eyes he certainly has a high position and the best place to return .

In Our eyes he certainly has a high position and the best place to return .

The strength of the Indian economy is underpinned by a high saving rate and robust investment.

The investment banks blended these securities into asset backed securities and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and sold them on to financial institutions throughout the world. These institutions, attracted by the high rates of return that were promised, invariably neglected the downside risks.

But if the problem is weak investment, then a reduction in such incentives will lead to excessively high real interest rates when the factors holding back investment dissipate.

This ramification is highlighted by the consistently high domestic absorption (private and public consumption and investment expenditures to GDP ratio) and the allocation switch from investment to consumption.

Moreover, The Squam Lake Report recommends that when an advertisement for an investment product does report a prior average return, it should also include a statement of the uncertainty associated with that return.