The hurdle rate is the minimum acceptable return on an investment i.e., the project appropriate discount rate.

But are foreign owners getting more than a fair rate of return?

Venous return is the rate of blood flow back to the heart.

Considering the renminbi s recent appreciation, the rate of return could reach 3 4 .

It earned a rate of return on its foreign assets that was nearly twice as high as the rate it paid foreigners on US assets.

The rate of property law implementation, a vital pre condition for return, has continued to climb.

Women are much more responsible, conscientious and they have an almost 100 rate of timely credit return.

Liquidity injections into a zero interest rate developed world send return starved investors scrambling for growth opportunities elsewhere.

This represents a yearly real rate of return of 4.1 per cent for the same period, after adjustment based on the United States consumer price index, and compares favourably with the 3.5 per cent long term real rate of return assumed in the actuarial calculation.

Although the top rate has climbed back to near 40 , no one proposes a return to pre Reagan levels.

The compound annual rate of return for the 45 year period ending 31 March 2005 was 8.6 per cent.

For an investor, the rate of return is the sum of the rate of appreciation and the rent price ratio, so the low rent price ratio reduces the advantage of faster appreciation.

That predictable dollar decline makes the relative return on holding dollar bonds even lower than the interest rate differential alone implies.

Nevertheless, the return started accelerating in mid 2005 at a weekly rate of 4,500 persons, and dramatically increased in August and September.

For example, in Australia, the non return rate of temporary entrants, including persons from developing countries, fell to 2.2 per cent in 2001.

Government educates and invests, increasing the supply and reducing the premium earned by skilled workers, and lowering the rate of return on physical capital.

Rich country investors earned a higher rate of return than they would at home, and poor country recipients raised the development finance they needed.

China s official foreign reserves are increasing at a rate of about 1 billion per business day, almost all of which is used to buy US Treasury bonds and other international assets that carry a minimal rate of return.

But one would be wrong studies have consistently shown that the rate of return to capital has been more than 10 since the late 1990s.

But structured deposits for example, deposits whose rate of return is linked to the performance of the New York Stock Exchange are becoming increasingly popular.

Such a growth rate would help Bosnia and Herzegovina return its GDP to a pre war level, which would open the door for EU integration.

At the rates that it is paying today, the German government should be able to find many investment projects that yield a positive social rate of return.

In earlier times, growth was fueled by capital scarcity capital investment attracted a high rate of return, and this created a virtuous circle of saving and investment.

According to standard trade theory, a global labor glut ought to imply an increased rate of return on capital, which again pushes interest rates up, not down.

Given that the renminbi s real and expected rates of return are higher than the real rate of return of other currencies, it has become a positive carry against foreign currencies, reinforcing the tendency to hold assets in renminbi and liabilities in foreign currencies.

As China s demographic dividend disappears, its low end labor market is shrinking, driving up its once rock bottom labor costs and diminishing its rate of return on capital.

Comment by the Administration. For increased effectiveness and efficiency, UNOPS will use net present value or internal rate of return to determine the expected value of the investment.

Now that interest rate spreads are increasing again, the pain is considerable, prompting calls for Eurobonds. When other countries guarantee repayment, it is hoped, low interest rates will return.

So, by the end of the year, we will see a slightly improved level of GDP, but the rate of GDP growth is likely to return to negative territory.

The common currency s strength reflects problems elsewhere in the world, but a euro exchange rate that would enable the return of confidence and growth is no less elusive for that.

The effective interest rate, effective annual interest rate, annual equivalent rate (AER) or simply effective rate is the interest rate on a loan or financial product restated from the nominal interest rate as an interest rate with annual compound interest payable in arrears.

Absent this helping hand from the exchange rate, all southern European rebalancing will need to take place internally through domestic deflation, which in turn risks jeopardizing their return to public debt sustainability.

Among the costs and risks of their low interest rate policies are a return to the leveraged growth pattern and growing uncertainty about the limits of a central bank s balance sheet expansion.

(d) Obtain the required 3.5 per cent annualized real rate of return for the investments of the Fund over the long term after adjustment based on the United States consumer price index.

The population growth rate surged as the mortality rate dropped more rapidly than the birth rate.

Yet, because Americans consistently earn a higher return on their investments abroad than foreigners earn on their US investments, US debt is rising at perhaps only half the rate that it might otherwise.

After the birth rate plunged in the 1980s and Spain's population growth rate dropped, the population again trended upward, based initially on the return of many Spaniards who had emigrated to other European countries during the 1970s, and more recently, fuelled by large numbers of immigrants who make up 12 of the population.

BERKELEY The S P stock index now yields a 7 real (inflation adjusted) return. By contrast, the annual real interest rate on the five year United States Treasury Inflation Protected Security (TIPS) is 1.02 .

ABR Available bit rate a minimum guaranteed rate is specified.

Under that programme, once the targets are maintained or exceeded, the prior approval of the Government of the United Kingdom will not be required for loans with a positive financial or economic rate of return.

Return

The malnutrition rate and the child mortality rate have been reduced.

Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim?

Return, return, O Shulamite return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.

ARDC is credited with the first major venture capital success story when its 1957 investment of 70,000 in Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) would be valued at over 355 million after the company's initial public offering in 1968 (representing a return of over 500 times on its investment and an annualized rate of return of 101 ).