Decisions about business investment are even starker.

They also help companies take informed business and investment decisions.

Our business representatives came with me to present large scale investment projects.

That would weaken the stock market, lower business investment, and impede economic growth.

The Ugandan Government would strive to create an enabling investment and business environment.

We know it is also crucial to improve the business and investment climate.

Such partnership schemes sometimes involving business associations and international institutions also exist with a view to identifying business investment opportunities in LDCs.

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New business partnerships are being fostered by the Special Unit as it organizes forums for African and Asian businesses to catalyse investment and technology transfer at the enterprise level.

If you're going to start a new business, you need a business plan.

If you're going to start a new business, you need a business plan.

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

Lower share prices will now have negative effects on consumer spending and business investment.

Business coverage gained prominence in the 1990s, with wider investment in the stock market.

Malawi offered a good business climate and many investment opportunities that should be tapped.

The need to adopt new business models

In May 2004, he led an investment mission of 500 Brazilian business entrepreneurs to China.

In terms of outward FDI policies, several developing countries have established outward investment agencies (OIAs), whose primary function is to promote and facilitate investment abroad by helping domestic enterprises develop international business links and pursue overseas business opportunities.

Circumstances have forced more and more investors to look for new investment opportunities by adding unconventional asset classes and applying new investment theories and technologies to meet their investment requirements.

The Clinton global initiative, inaugurated in New York in September 2005, had organized extensive discussions on possible responses to climate change, including exploring business opportunities related to investment in alternative energy sources.

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Investment banks had transformed their business in ways their managers and boards clearly did not understand.

The higher interest rates would also apply to corporate bonds and bank loans, weakening business investment.

The most recent measure of orders for nondefense capital goods signaled a decline in business investment.

In a globalizing world, competition for foreign direct investment focuses on the establishment of a good business environment and investment incentives, consistent with national development objectives.

First, governments need to adopt urgent business climate reforms in order to foster investment, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

On the business side, investment and employment follows demand once the inventory cycle has run its course.

Still, overall, business investment excluding construction has returned to 10 of GDP (from 10.6 before the crisis).

This is my first investment in media but I have a background in business for many years.

The Africa Asia Business Forum aims to stimulate trade and investment between countries in both regions, bringing together business representatives to discuss possible joint ventures, bilateral agreements, enterprise exchanges and a variety of business instruments.

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However, private business will not step up investment unless there is a clear policy direction for the economy.

Continued fiscal expansion is certainly not the answer, as it ultimately damages both private spending and business investment.

(d) Development of the new systems requested by business units

Critics of Bachelet claim that this agenda is already depressing business investment and is responsible for relatively slow economic growth. And they worry that foreign and domestic investors will be discouraged by the new labor rules.

Financial markets, through which investment is made, were always liable to collapse when something happened to disturb business confidence.

In fact, fixed business investment as a share of GDP is some 2 lower today than 4 years ago.

Throughout the world, the business sector remains both the predominant performer and the predominant funder of R D investment.

In August 2001, he wrote that, The driving force behind the current slowdown is a plunge in business investment.

Small business loans have been pivotal in creating not only new businesses, but whole new industries.

And I love asking businesses, What's your conversion on new business?

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More investment in immunization was needed, particularly through new financing mechanisms.

Absent new business and new revenues, the Fund was facing dire cutbacks to ensure its own survival.