Shareholders used to put up with relatively meager dividends compared to today.

In addition, the GSTP could yield concrete dividends.

Further investments in research and education are likely to pay high dividends.

João's exploration policies (see below) also paid great dividends.

In return Saudi Arabia gets political 'dividends an obliging press.'

To combat the downturn, Brazil s government implemented measures that are now yielding clear dividends.

The stress on the need for education in order to enhance women's awareness of their rights in the area of justice required considerable effort and time but paid dividends in the long run.

Moreover, after the stock market crash, the maximum tax on dividends paid on stocks was slashed from 35 to 15 , giving a substantial new advantage to long term investors and boosting the compounding effect of reinvesting after tax dividends.

A reinvigorated tracking programme has yielded dividends in the last six months.

The people of Burundi, who voted overwhelmingly for peace, now await its dividends.

Moreover, state owned enterprises will be required to pay out a larger portion of their earnings as dividends.

Dividends are supposed to be a share of profits here it was simply a share of government largesse.

This strategy of pre emptive political decapitation has produced enormous dividends for the Party.

Although women suffer most as victims of conflict, they are excluded from peace dividends.

Last month, the bank paid 1.1 billion in dividends, reducing its ability to absorb future losses on its investments.

While upside risks would be turned into dividends, downside risks would be limited to the stock of equity invested.

Even if no military option is contemplated for the future, negotiations can pay other dividends.

The only escape from this trap is investment in education, which would pay enormous social dividends.

The interest and dividends on those securities will be paid by sending more pieces of paper .

The banks can report record profits without much risk, rebuild capital, and pay dividends and bonuses.

We believe that large dividends in threat reduction can be achieved with a relatively modest investment.

That may entail some expense in the short term, but with dividends in the long run.

Larger dividends paid to the budget from the highly profitable state enterprise sector could also provide an alternative source of funds.

Countries with more successful markets are more likely to have complete data on both prices and dividends for a hundred years.

A determined EU effort to counter Arab fragmentation and tackle problems ranging from acute water scarcity to poor education would pay rich dividends.

Political interference in the stock market is not merely about taxes on capital gains, dividends, and income.

For three decades, the dividends from Deng Xiaoping s initial decision to open China s economy to market forces, and to the world, have fueled rapid growth.

It is hard to imagine that the peace dividends promised by the Nairobi Agreement will be reaped without an end to the suffering in Darfur.

Relatively modest investments in the resilience, redundancy, and integrity of these systems pay high dividends, albeit at random intervals.

Whereas equities have dividends, bonds have coupons, and homes provide rents, gold is solely a play on capital appreciation.

He has taught his daughter Joori the importance of safety and buckling up and is collecting the dividends today.

Corporations are allowed to deduct interest payments on bonds, but stock dividends are effectively taxed at the both the corporate and the individual level.

Public expectations of possible peace dividends remain high, but there is a general perception of low Government responsiveness to the needs of the population.

Already heavily burdened taxpayers saw their money intended to help banks lend so that the economy could be revived go to pay outsized bonuses and dividends.

That had not happened, so I asked why so much financial skill and enterprise had not yielded obvious economic dividends.

The Kingdom effectively buys reverse 'shares' in the media outlets, where the cash 'dividends' flow the opposite way, from the shareholder to the media outlet.

Meanwhile, restive armed youth in the oil producing delta, Jonathan s native region, are waiting to see what dividends our son will bring to his long neglected home.

Creating a fairer and more efficient tax system, by eliminating the special treatment of capital gains and dividends, is also needed.

A careful matchmaking process unites the interests and goals of the women on both sides, and already has paid amazing dividends.

Increased investment in environmentally sustainable water, sanitation and human settlements programmes has multiple dividends benefiting women, the poor and the environment.

So, what brands can do, and companies, is pay dividends to consumers, be a brand that lasts, offer transparency, promise you're going to be there beyond today's sale.

These will be long term securities that pay regular dividends, like stocks, whose value is tied either positively or negatively to a real estate price index.

Most Americans view it as grossly unjust, especially after they saw the banks divert the billions intended to enable them to revive lending to payments of outsized bonuses and dividends.

Gathered into pension, investment, and hedge funds, shareholders can place considerable pressure on companies to extract dividends, using performance based bonuses to gain executive support for their preferred policies.

In particular, Chinese consumption as a share of GDP is very low by international standards and relative to the historical experience of other countries at a similar stage of development. Two important options for raising consumption are social insurance which is developing, but too slowly and reducing state owned enterprises huge savings by paying dividends to citizens, much as privately owned companies routinely pay dividends to shareholders.