Non financial companies could not get working capital, much less funding for long term investments.

The problem is that such long term investments bring results only in the medium and long term.

Iran is also reaping the returns of long term investments.

Shortsighted politicians like Bush often skimp on long term investments in favor of short term advantage.

Long term investments, not short term profits, and productive work, rather than paper gains, need to be supported.

We have the tools to prevent food crises by making smart, long term investments in agriculture.

While the regulations are likely to reduce the likelihood and impact of financial crises, they will also make long term loans more expensive and investments in illiquid assets riskier.

Spending, especially on investments in education, technology, and infrastructure, can actually lead to lower long term deficits.

A long term perspective is necessary when considering investments in the areas of education, health and migration.

In the US, neither R D nor overall investment is declining. Indeed, many industries pursue long term investments, notwithstanding their short term stockholders.

More broadly, international financial institutions should guide public and private investments alike away from a short term logic.

Investors are buying long term bonds at the current low interest rates because the interest rate on short term investments is now close to zero.

Local currency bond markets could help to develop domestic investor bases and mobilize domestic savings to support long term investments.

Some were talented and believed that the new subsidies and incentives rendered long term investments in the industry highly attractive.

We must revise compensation schemes and delay bonus payments until the long term profitability of a firm s investments is known.

Therefore, we believe that increased investments in the area of capacity building and infrastructure development will yield long term benefits.

Pro cyclical fiscal adjustment tends to encourage a short term orientation towards economic policy, which limits long term investments in infrastructure and human capital, thus constraining growth.

Political decision making circles, however, have continued to give disproportionate priority to investments with short term returns, without recognizing that such investments may not contribute to breaking the cycle of extreme poverty and environmental degradation in the long term.

The financial crisis reduced private financiers risk appetite, making long term exposures unappealing.

A deeper and more efficient financial sector would also reduce transaction costs and facilitate risk management. Local currency bond markets could help to develop domestic investor bases and mobilize domestic savings to support long term investments.

What matters more for long term growth are investments in the future including crucial public investments in education, technology, and infrastructure. Such investments ensure that all citizens, no matter how poor their parents, can live up to their potential.

Only with a long term strategy can host governments ensure that Chinese (and other) investments become a tool of development, not just a means of generating short term profit.

Successful implementation of the Convention is dependent not only on project investments but also on investments in human resources through long term capacity building that enables local people to own the process.

Some of the Asia Pacific and Latin American and Caribbean countries have begun to issue long term, local currency bonds to promote investments.

Indeed, such guarantees constitute the most significant medium and long term financial risks to China.

As long term investors, SWFs can help to reduce market volatility through financial intermediation, as well as contribute to financing projects with positive but long term rates of return.

Investors are buying long term bonds at the current low interest rates because the interest rate on short term investments is now close to zero. In other words, buyers are getting an additional 2 current yield in exchange for assuming the risk of holding long term bonds.

The problem is that such long term investments bring results only in the medium and long term. They do not address today s social or economic problems, nor do they signal a new society oriented approach by Europe towards its Mediterranean neighbors.

Doubting the multi year sustainability of current economic policy, they are holding back on long term investments and, instead, opting for higher self insurance.

Maybe this allows him to focus more on long term fundamentals and thus to make investments that may not perform well in the short run.

Anticipating such liquidity insurance, banks can make illiquid long term loans or hold other illiquid financial assets.

Further recognizes that more balanced burden sharing is essential to the long term financial sustainability of UNFPA.

In the fourth phase, which can last a generation or more, assistance is directed to long term investments and the strengthening of institutions such as courts.

So long as spending goes to investments yielding a modest return of 6 , the long term debt will be reduced, even as the short term deficit increases, owing to the higher tax revenues generated by the larger output in the short run and the more rapid growth in the long run.

Short Term Talk, Long Term Cost

Yet financial markets are not pricing dollar depreciation and a rise in long term US interest rates accordingly.

Welcoming the Institute's improved funding position, he noted, however, that long term financial viability was still a concern.

Further progress requires a supportive policy environment and the long term commitment of adequate human and financial resources.

Also, if exit occurs by selling the long term assets purchased during QE, a sharp increase in interest rates might choke off recovery, resulting in large financial losses for holders of long term bonds.

Furthermore, the long term financial planning necessitated by some organizational structures, such as the regional commissions, makes it challenging for them to add new unfunded road safety programmes to their predefined long term workplans.

As world leaders race to address the current global economic crisis, it may seem unrealistic to be calling for large and long term investments of this kind.

To address this distortion, the payoffs of financial executives should be tied not to the long term value of their firms common shares but to the long term value of a broader basket of securities.

Long term Recommendations

Government is not the best form of organization of a financial system in the long term, and even in the short term it is not very good.

Only one out of every ten Venezuelan companies polled states any intention of making middle or long term investments such as renovating existing industrial plants or building new ones.