This is needed to address the infrastructure bottlenecks that are holding back investment by companies in other sectors and slowing the development of agriculture.

A holding company is a company that owns other companies' outstanding stock.

Consumption is dropping, and companies are cutting investment.

To be sure, the fact that companies are holding on to their cash, rather than paying it out in dividends, signals that they expect investment opportunities to return a far more positive situation than in Japan, for example, where companies lack cash to invest.

This is denting confidence and holding back spending, investment, and job creation.

They also help companies take informed business and investment decisions.

Outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) by Singaporean companies has a long history.

A dynamic single market would create investment opportunities for companies throughout the region.

China is providing investment insurance and tax breaks to companies that invest abroad.

Debt relief will open doors for the financing of critical projects in electric power, roads, and ports. This is needed to address the infrastructure bottlenecks that are holding back investment by companies in other sectors and slowing the development of agriculture.

Second, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) must screen investments in or acquisitions of US companies by foreign companies, including Chinese companies, for national security risks.

While local governments have been unable to borrow, locally controlled state investment companies can.

An enabling environment encourages entrepreneurship, allows local companies to thrive and attracts foreign investment.

State holding companies controlled key listed firms directly and associations controlled the rest, reconciling totalitarianism with nominally private ownership.

In addition to participating directly in financing investments, IDC helps companies identify investment opportunities abroad.

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.

More competition for investment banking oligarchs from commercial bankers and insurance companies with deep pockets seemed likely to reduce the investment banking industry s unconscionable profits.

Uncertainties about the economy are likely to insert an element of caution into companies investment decisions.

Yet hostility towards investment by Russia s government (and government companies) has been almost universal until recently.

It tried to redefine itself as a more normal financial institution, less committed to holding long term strategic stakes in companies.

These instruments include tax exemption on income remitted into the country by Malaysian companies investing overseas, the provision of investment guarantees and investment promotion missions abroad.

Registered investment companies and investment advisers are required to adopt strong compliance controls, managed by a chief risk officer and administered by a chief compliance officer.

The article alleged that Quintais partly controlled by a company owned by the Berlusconi family s investment vehicle and partly by a holding company controlled by the Gaddafi family s investment arm.

Some, like Singapore s Government Investment Corporation, prefer passive and diversified investments with no controlling stake in companies.

But European companies remain hesitant, despite low interest rates, keeping private investment well below its previous peak.

U.S. companies account for more than half the investment in Angola, with Chevron Texaco leading the way.

Policy, instead, should be targeted at withdrawing excessive stimulus to consumption and loosening the constraints that are holding back investment.

UNCTAD and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) launched in March 2005 a Joint African Investment Initiative to encourage greater investment by Japanese companies in Africa.

Rather than holding an investment in our bodies, we re all at risk of becoming capital my body, but somebody else s capital.

While the employment situation is changing, large traditional companies still see a new employee as a lifetime investment.

Governments and pharmaceutical companies should increase investment in order to provide affordable treatments to people in developing countries.

European companies in the relevant sectors are thus expected to make up a significant part of CDM investment.

Lack of equity capital, in turn, made risk averse shareholders hire gamblers to manage their limited liability investment companies.

The foreign companies contribution was supposed to be further investment. But did they fully live up to their commitments?

We will work together with Irish industry and partner companies in Africa to promote trade, investment and technology transfer.

Yes, there are some wonderful, honest companies that deserve investment and can t get it, but they are not that common.

This encourages local companies to explore overseas investment opportunities that will enable them to enhance their competitiveness expand and grow.

The new system will attract scam artists and promoters who will encourage unsuitable companies to seek investment and oversell the companies to individuals who can't afford to lose the money that they invest.

In so doing, that company, like the foreign companies holding fishing licences, were accomplices in the illegal occupation of Western Sahara by the Kingdom of Morocco.

Under this item, the Commission will hold a joint session with the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA), which is holding its tenth annual conference the World Investment Conference 2005 in parallel with the Commission.

Some economists point to imperfect information, which precludes companies from considering the higher returns on investment available in the developing world.

Investment The stock market capitalisation of listed companies in Bahrain was valued at 21,176 million in 2008 by the World Bank.

Thus, Malaysian home country measures are closely linked to Malaysian companies and investment in countries in the South East Asian region.

Indeed, investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital are already inventing new types of securities to reduce the capital cost of holding risky assets.

The Glass Steagall Act s separation of investment from commercial banking greatly benefited the established oligarchy of investment banks, but somehow the entry of competitors from commercial banks and insurers increased financial companies profits further.