More broadly, international financial institutions should guide public and private investments alike away from a short term logic.

Shortsighted politicians like Bush often skimp on long term investments in favor of short term advantage.

Long term investments, not short term profits, and productive work, rather than paper gains, need to be supported.

In particular, bonuses based on medium term results of risky trades and investments must supplant bonuses based on short term outcomes.

Another global financial crisis could disrupt short term capital inflows.

When contributions are larger than benefit payments, short term mismanagement of investments may not always be detrimental.

But, when it comes to the European financial crisis, China s behavior seems to be determined by purely short term tactical considerations, even as Chinese investments in Europe tripled in 2011.

In the US, neither R D nor overall investment is declining. Indeed, many industries pursue long term investments, notwithstanding their short term stockholders.

This could generate financial strains over the medium term and protectionist pressures in the short term.

Non financial companies could not get working capital, much less funding for long term investments.

Investors are buying long term bonds at the current low interest rates because the interest rate on short term investments is now close to zero.

The issue is not just illiquidity financial institutions with short term liabilities and longer term illiquid assets.

But most of the institutions upon which they rely for their investments and savings are geared to the short term.

a Loss is due to declines in market values of short term investments which more than offset other interest income.

Pro cyclical fiscal adjustment tends to encourage a short term orientation towards economic policy, which limits long term investments in infrastructure and human capital, thus constraining growth.

These investments are needed in the short term to offset the decline in worldwide consumption spending that underlies the global recession.

Political decision making circles, however, have continued to give disproportionate priority to investments with short term returns, without recognizing that such investments may not contribute to breaking the cycle of extreme poverty and environmental degradation in the long term.

Only with a long term strategy can host governments ensure that Chinese (and other) investments become a tool of development, not just a means of generating short term profit.

In the short term, there was a need for financial and medical assistance and food packages.

Short Term Talk, Long Term Cost

Blair called for a new financial order based on values other than the maximum short term profit.

Central bankers, more generally, are typically able to provide short or medium term narratives to financial markets.

Maybe this allows him to focus more on long term fundamentals and thus to make investments that may not perform well in the short run.

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The efforts of African countries to raise the level of domestic financial resources and attract investments in sectors of relevance for desertification control must promote activities that are financially profitable in the short or medium term and offer incentives for private sector participation.

For the financial market, the size of the exit depends on the funds available to make short term investors whole. Unfortunately, the size of the EFSF looks inadequate to finance a collective exit by short term investors.

The policy has short term and long term objectives.

Government is not the best form of organization of a financial system in the long term, and even in the short term it is not very good.

The financial sector is seven times smaller than the OECD average, and almost all companies rely on short term loans.

For the financial market, the size of the exit depends on the funds available to make short term investors whole.

So Europe needs a short term growth strategy to supplement its financial support package and its plans for fiscal consolidation.

Short term indicators for services

And southern Mediterranean countries can t hope to make up in America and Asia the opportunities and investments that they are losing in Europe, certainly not in the short term.

But it also seemed to me that a world short of risk bearing capacity needed virtually anything that induced people to commit their money to long term risky investments.

Let me conclude by saying that terrorist financing is not a short term policy with short term goals.

Fourth, and finally, the failure of Lehman Brothers and near failure of the insurance giant AIG, incited a financial panic, in which even healthy firms are unable to obtain short term bank loans or sell short term commercial paper.

What is being criticized as short termism could well be a long term financial strategy that is just right for Apple.

So long as spending goes to investments yielding a modest return of 6 , the long term debt will be reduced, even as the short term deficit increases, owing to the higher tax revenues generated by the larger output in the short run and the more rapid growth in the long run.

Part of the problem is blinkered decision making. EU leaders focus narrowly on limiting short term financial and political costs, rather than thinking strategically about broader longer term consequences.

Short term considerations will not suffice.

Iran is also reaping the returns of long term investments.

First, governments must balance long term goals with short term achievements.

Concerned about the excessive volatility of speculative short term capital flows and the contagion effects in financial markets in times of crisis,