On the private supply side, higher returns have not called forth more investment in people.

When investment returns to normal levels, economic growth will slow further.

Cash balances were maintained at a minimum level to provide the organisation with maximum returns on investment (Figure 2).

Some economists point to imperfect information, which precludes companies from considering the higher returns on investment available in the developing world.

These sorts of reforms bring massive returns relative to the investment required to finance them.

As a result, these two industrial longline fisheries are among the eight lowest in terms of edible returns on investment for protein.

Investment in payroll systems could provide significant returns in cost avoidance and in better system management.

China s investment in US government securities and other sovereign debt will continue to yield extremely low returns.

Even taking into account some of the key environmental damage from warming, we would lose money on the investment, with returns of just 685 billion.

But, because productivity ultimately must be built on innovation, not just on ever more buildings and equipment, it was inevitable that returns on investment would turn south at some point.

When the private and social returns of investment diminish too much, growth cannot be sustained indefinitely, even though rising investment rates can sustain aggregate demand for a while.

Investment in environmental and natural resource sustainability has been proved to yield very high returns in the long term.

The economy of the developed countries is maturing, which results in diminishing investment returns in those countries in general.

At the same time, since returns to capital are kept low by high wages, very little investment occurs. The excess of savings over investment flows abroad as capital exports.

Finally, the social returns from investment in finance as the industry of the future have largely disappeared over the past generation.

Faster growth and returns on public investment yield higher tax revenues, and a 5 to 6 return is more than enough to offset temporary increases in the national debt.

Part of this flow is steady, because it supports families at home but much of it is opportunistic investment seeking real returns.

Other analysts point to the increasing returns that accompany greater concentration of investment a force that works to the disadvantage of poor countries.

Also, an investment team specialized in developing countries and in alternative investments would increase the probability of higher investment returns and would also offer a better risk management capability as a result of further diversification.

The performance analysis will comprise an attribution analysis, to determine the driving forces behind investment performance of each manager, a returns analysis, and risk statistics related to each investment manager, sector, industry, currency and region.

One can think of periodic systemic risk as an inherent tendency toward reversion to the mean short and medium term returns can deviate considerably and for extended periods from the expected long run returns associated with various investment strategies and capabilities.

Foreigners are hardly reaping great returns on investing in the US. On the contrary, they typically get significantly lower returns than Americans get on their investments abroad.

Projected income is at a higher level than in the previous biennium, since investment returns are predicted to be more favourable than in 2004 2005.

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That configuration has largely reversed in the past nine months as international capital flows, driven by investment opportunities and returns, return to a more normal pattern.

When contributions can no longer cover benefit payments, investment income and capital returns will have much bigger implications for achieving the Fund's mission of going forward.

In fact, filtering out stocks in accordance with payouts would have lowered the draw downs on investment in the financial sector by well over half over the past 20 years, with no loss in returns.

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This investment shortfall is due to many factors, but perhaps the main one is that there are substantial medium term institutional roadblocks to investment in many developing countries, where long term returns now seem to be by far the highest.

But big negative returns have an unfortunate psychological impact on markets.

So will lower inflation, which raises real returns on bank deposits.

And we are now well on the way to diminishing returns.

What business wouldn t jump at investment opportunities yielding returns in excess of 10 if it could borrow capital as the US government can for less than 3 interest?

IOM had developed several programmes to foster such ties, enhancing the mobility of people and resources, which translated into returns, investment and establishment of microenterprises and job creation.

Increasing leverage boosts returns on the upside but is very risky on the downside.

There have been increased efforts on returns on the part of the Kosovo Government.

While the Provisional Institutions have made progress in support of technical preparations for returns and returns to municipalities, and remain the leading funder of returns, efforts to revitalize the returns process have been lacking.

In fact, commodity futures have become increasingly appealing to non commercial investors, as their returns seem to be negatively correlated with returns on equities and bonds.

Returns of 20 on equity targets are a thing of the past.

The standardized disclosure label should not, however, include past returns on investments.

On the important front of returns, no significant progress has been reported.

China is also losing long term growth momentum, as falling fertility rates and returns on investment weaken labor force expansion and capital accumulation. And it is becoming increasingly difficult for China to take advantage of technology driven productivity gains.

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Globalization has strengthened the ability of capital to flow to wherever investment promises the highest returns likewise, competitive manufactured products from low wage economies will flow in the other direction.

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.