Fixed asset investment in India rose by only 2.3 in the first half of 2012, compared to 9 in the year earlier period.

But competitive pressures and the long gestation period of fixed capital outlays multiply optimism, leading to more investment being undertaken than is actually profitable.

Funds are sought for implementing Phase II, which will entail designing sector based investment promotion programmes in cooperation with PIPA over a period of 18 months.

Despite the Bush era tax cuts, the 2001 2007 expansion was the worst of the post war period in terms of investment, employment, wage, and GDP growth.

The European Investment Bank, which received a significant capital increase in 2012, should add a large investment support program for medium size enterprises to its current operations, with a subsidy financed from the European budget to encourage first time job takers for a limited period.

So, even if there are good reasons to expect a period of sub par investment and employment growth, this need not translate into slow productivity or GDP growth.

South Africa has decided to stop the automatic renewal of investment agreements that it signed in the early post apartheid period, and has announced that some will be terminated.

During this plan period, UNICEF will seek to increase the ratio of investment in learning from the current 1.4 per cent of staff post costs to 2 per cent.

My extrapolation of the IMF model shows that Western countries can boost their long term GDP growth significantly by increasing their levels of capital investment over a three year period.

This is attributable largely to public investment in rural infrastructure, and, in the initial period, to institutional changes in agrarian production organization and an egalitarian distribution of land cultivation rights.

This treaty improved the investment climate and encouraged investment.

At best, we face a protracted period of anemic, below trend growth in advanced economies as deleveraging by households, financial institutions, and governments starts to feed through to consumption and investment.

In the 2000 2004 period, the Government of Québec stopped reducing Québec family benefits by the sum equivalent to the increase in the federal government's investment in the National Child Benefit.

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.

An investment in youth is an investment in the future.

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But, according to the Bundesbank, net investment abroad (including financial investment) has already roughly matched domestic investment in recent years.

Investment policies should extend to both domestic and foreign direct investment.

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

An investment of 2.5 billion is anticipated over a period of five years to put in place measures to significantly increase the disposable income and improve the living conditions of low income households.

TEAP was requested to present a table containing the breakdown of non investment components including their estimated and actual expenditures from the current replenishment period, as well as estimates for 2006 2008 replenishment.

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The investment policy reviews and investment guides produced by UNCTAD had been valuable in improving the investment policy environment in those countries.

During this period, the World Bank and related institutions pursued a strategy that encouraged private sector investment and participation in infrastructure projects, thus providing developing countries with opportunities for technological learning through infrastructure development.

Front loaded public investment could be funded through an enhanced European Investment Bank.

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But in any investment decision, the key question is, What is my alternative investment?

Licensing requirements for foreign investment have also been reduced, making investment easier for enterprises.

Should we write off what more than two generations of Europeans have created a massive investment in institution building that has led to the longest period of peace and prosperity in the history of the continent?

(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.