Investment simultaneously generates income and expands productive capacity.

The Government has made a strategic and productive investment in education.

Deficits are problematic if they finance consumption, not productive public investment on infrastructure.

Rather than securing investment for productive sectors of the economy, the financial industry has become adept at securing investment in itself.

Owners of private capital that could be allocated to productive investment will remain hesitant.

The alternative an increase in interest rates would undermine both consumption and productive investment.

Finally, while assets nowadays are much more liquid, this has not boosted long term productive investment.

By any definition, this is a huge investment that could have had many other productive uses.

Market access and foreign direct investment would help to promote economic growth and generate productive employment.

The right balance today requires creating jobs partly through additional fiscal stimulus aimed at productive infrastructure investment.

But, too often in Africa s history, money that should have financed productive investment has been looted or squandered.

Investment, including foreign direct investment (FDI), played a central role in this connection, since it provided a crucial link between creation of productive capacity and international competitiveness.

Trading in derivatives by investment banks, hedge funds, and other market participants, reaps huge profits for traders while depriving the real economy of productive investment and job creation.

Investment in equipment the key to strengthening productive capital in the tradable goods sector has generally suffered even more.

In addition, although net direct investment flows have become for developing countries the most stable external source of finance for productive investment, they have shown pro cyclical behaviour in recent years.

These inferior substitutes often imply exorbitant costs for borrowers and financing that is usually too short term for productive investment activity.

Such a move would deter excessive investment in productive capacity, and ease the implementation of a more flexible exchange rate regime.

In a time of crisis, countries in which luxury goods play their selective role effectively are the safest bets for productive investment.

Issues of poor productive investment and policies for growth with equity, with special emphasis on expanding employment opportunities, should be urgently addressed.

Private investment, particularly in productive sectors, remained low due to an ongoing lack of confidence of potential investors in the political situation.

A vibrant domestic investment base will emerge only if the private sector is induced to engage in productive activities by encouraging domestic investments.

Most people saw the consolidation of smaller firms into fewer, large firms as a stabilizing development that rewarded success and allowed for further productive investment.

An agenda for action could deal with all generic issues related to enhancing productive capacities in trade, technology and investment flows and exchange of experience.

Particularly important in this regard are non trade policies, which promote the development of productive capabilities through capital investment, skills acquisition, organization change and technological modernization.

The European Commission s recent decision to grant member states some flexibility for productive public investment linked to EU structural funds is a welcome step in this direction.

As a result, economic growth and job creation remain lackluster, with the availability of investment finance for long term productive assets essential to sustainable growth severely limited.

Instead, global leaders should work to maximize the liquidity that unconventional policy measures have generated, and to use it to support investment in long term productive assets.

While large deficits are usually undesirable, sometimes they can be benign or even desirable, such as in recession, wartime, or when used to finance productive public investment.

That indicator, however, cannot be representative in backward and remote communities that have insufficient income due to a lack of productive investment and high levels of open unemployment.

In this context, productivity growth whether through technical progress, better allocation of resources, or productive investment is as important a variable for the southern economies as wage restraint is.

What has America done with this opportunity arguably the lowest cost funding in the history of humankind? Not much, in terms of productive investment, strengthening education, or maintaining essential infrastructure.

Meanwhile, net savings in developing economies are increasing, and low yields in developed economies are providing an incentive for investors to channel more resources to productive investment in these countries.

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The revamped growth compact would more effectively allocate European resources and increase the flexibility of permanent transfers from rich to poor countries provided that the money is used for productive investment.

Fear is counter productive.

Producing health requires investment in good food, in a pleasant and non toxic environment, and in jobs that motivate people to work and feel productive. (And perhaps it requires investment in, say, making bad food unappealing, if only by making good food cheaper or even subsidized and more convenient.)

The lesson for other developing countries is that spending on the poor for health, education, safe drinking water, electricity, and the like, is not simply pandering it is a serious and productive investment.

While such investment in long term productive assets like infrastructure is essential to generating the income that these investors demand, less than 1 of pension fund assets are allocated directly to infrastructure projects.

Not all forests are productive.

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The key to ending the European crisis is a stimulus plan that addresses deficiencies on both the supply and demand sides. That is why Germany s refusal to help find a way to finance the proposed European investment agenda which, for a limited time, would fund productive private investment is a mistake.

Companies that follow this approach are concerned with the skills of their future workforces seek to build loyal and productive supplier bases and make investment decisions based on sustainable value creation, not short term profitability.

(c) Within its work programme on investment, technology transfer and intellectual property, assess ways in which developing countries can develop their domestic productive capability in the supply of essential drugs in cooperation with pharmaceutical companies

Worse still, labor has been displaced from more productive tradable activities (in manufacturing) to less productive informal activities (services).

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