Investment Strategy after the Crisis

Calls for a more diversified investment strategy intensified.

Investment strategy is simply the long term allocation of monies among the various asset types and investment markets.

The problem is not a lack of reserves, but Gazprom s investment strategy.

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.

As long as the yen remains weak, this investment strategy will be a money machine.

The investment and construction requirements of large scale urbanization are a key pillar of this strategy.

However, my curiosity was piqued when I noticed a missing attachment outlining the firm s planned investment strategy.

Funding for this strategy increased almost four fold in 2004 2005, for a total investment of  40 million.

The Government is seeking to strike the appropriate balance of investment through the formulation of a national development strategy.

Liberia s strategy to attract large scale foreign investment in mining, agriculture, and forestry will help rebuild infrastructure and boost employment and tax receipts.

Its heart was an innovation strategy based on more market reforms and investment in human capital, leading to annual growth of 6 7 .

Creating an international force for southern Lebanon makes sense only as an investment in regional peace, not as an appendix to Israel s current strategy.

As a participant in the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, IFRC viewed risk and vulnerability reduction not as a cost, but as an investment.

Europe s leaders need to put private investment at the center of their growth strategy by devising policies that open the gates to large potential flows.

If it is led into a more adventurous strategy, its sustained policy of research and heavy investment in up market steel products may be weakened.

Europe s leaders need to put private investment at the center of their growth strategy by devising policies that open the gates to large potential flows.

Emphasis was placed on ways to promote housing finance and urban development more squarely in the national development agenda, including in the Country Assistance Strategy used by the World Bank to establish investment programming and poverty reduction strategy papers.

Furthermore, a diagnostic study of the investment climate was prepared for the CEMAC countries and an investor targeting strategy for the garments sector was initiated in Botswana.

The EU is not deprived of instruments the so called structural funds that finance investment in poorer regions but it does not have a strategy to use them.

Back in the 1990 s, EU officials, prompted by Spain, Italy, and France, began to shape a Mediterranean strategy to stimulate trade and investment in the Arab world.

Europe s lack of a collective defense strategy, together with declining investment in military capacity, is also a serious obstacle to its continuing global influence as a security actor.

Qatar with its seemingly inexhaustible wealth and a comprehensive foreign, investment, and media strategy has replaced Saudi Arabia as the decisive arbiter in almost every Middle Eastern conflict.

The utilization of aid in investment programmes prepared and implemented within the framework of the poverty reduction strategy papers provides improved safeguards for the efficient use of aid.

The aims will be to tackle the agricultural, environmental and socio economic effects of land degradation through a coordinated effort with investment, research and strategy, dissemination and partnerships.

To create the conditions for greater private investment and an exit strategy from aid in the longer term for these countries, a big push in development assistance is needed.

The point is not to suggest that there is one right answer, but rather that investment strategy and payout decisions should take into account the longer term dimensions of risk.

In 2001, three financial economists Paul Gompers, Joy Ishii, and Andrew Metrick identified a governance based investment strategy that would have yielded superior stock market returns during the 1990 s.

Rather than continuing to pursue piecemeal measures like those that it has just approved, the government needs to implement an integrated and targeted strategy for the reactivation of investment, employment, and trade.

There were no surprises in the basic thrust of the strategy a structural shift in China s investment and export led growth model toward a more balanced consumer based and services led economy.

The Resident Representative of UNDP in Sri Lanka shared his experience on the Invest in Peace initiative in Sri Lanka, a strategy that focused on revitalizing private investment to promote peace building.

He referred to the World Bank strategy of direct engagement with indigenous peoples, stating that the grant facility launched in 2003 was assisting 237 investment projects involving indigenous projects around the world.

A wiser strategy would have been to boost investment by using financial intermediation to allocate these funds to firms that are being crowded out of domestic capital markets by excessively high borrowing costs.

Indeed, the Security Strategy is almost a National Strategy.

This treaty improved the investment climate and encouraged investment.

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.

Strategy

Darfur needs a water strategy more than a military strategy.

An investment in youth is an investment in the future.

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

His Government's strategy for economic recovery covered employment, health and education and included an investment plan, in which the strengthening of entrepreneurial skills and the development of micro, small and medium sized enterprises were priorities.

The five year strategy would fit within the National Women's Strategy.

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