Such investment will greatly facilitate social, environmental and economic linkages.

Investment in health is also vital for social integration public health policy can directly influence social development, combat poverty and reduce social exclusion.

Fourth, increased investment in the country s social safety net includes not only universal health and social insurance, but also expanded housing subsidies.

At the same time, high oil prices have enabled higher social spending and infrastructure investment.

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

But some vulnerable countries are still struggling to finance countercyclical investment and expanded social protection services.

But innovation in sustainable education financing is lagging behind as investment in other social infrastructure increases.

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.

This model is not only inefficient channeling government resources to support investment also undermines China s social development.

Bonilla Garcia, A. and J. V. Gruat (2003). Social Protection A Life Cycle Continuum Investment for Social Justice, Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development. Geneva International Labour Office.

The many sectoral meetings of ministers which it organized addressed economic, financial and social issues, from migration and social security to promoting investment and alleviating external debt.

This will also help to provide the space for growth enhancing public investment and important social safety nets.

Moreover, Russia s demographic crisis continues, sustained by poor public health and inadequate investment in a social safety net.

The key to reducing poverty was sustainable development strategies that included investment in rural areas and social services.

Indeed, universities may be the most consistently performing products of long term capital investment, especially if one is inclined to think about social and economic investment in exactly the same terms.

6 A. Bonilla Garcia and J. V. Gruat, Social Protection A Life Cycle Continuum Investment for Social Justice, Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development (Geneva, International Labour Office, 2003).

The reduction of unemployment and social inequality and the expansion of social investment are determining factors for human development in other words, sustainable economic growth within a democratic framework based on social and gender equality.

Investment has been discouraged by the rejection of corporate culture, social and political tension, and uncertainty about the reforms.

Finally, we must find ways to nurture stronger and more vigorous economic growth, a prerequisite to solid investment in social sectors.

This is not all bad, because China can certainly use more public investment in social sectors such as health and education.

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

Public investment in the social fields continued to increase by year, accounting for more than 25 of the State budge expenditure.

It was time to demand that priority should be given to more effective social investment efforts in all national development strategies.

The global financial crisis thus revealed the Mexican economy s inability to innovate, promote investment, create jobs, or provide conditions for social mobility.

Despite unequivocal evidence of its positive social and economic impact, education particularly at the preschool and primary levels suffers from chronic under investment.

Only education remains as a future investment sector, given its impact on productivity, but the rest of the much needed social sector interventions have been abandoned in favor of investment in infrastructure, the environment, regional integration, and finance.

Investments are justified and support economic and social development when they have high private and social returns. Elements of the investment portfolio in the public sector and the SOEs are beginning to fail this test.

Domestic resource mobilization for investment in social infrastructure must, however, complement official development assistance mechanisms such as cooperatives could play an important role in promoting the eradication of poverty, fostering social integration and creating employment.

Suppose that over the next eight years larger deficits trigger neither extra capital inflows nor capital outflows, and suppose that a lower investment America is a poorer America, with a gross social return on investment of 15 per year.

Investment (especially in infrastructure in backward areas and social investments) should not bear the brunt of the expenditure squeeze, because today s investment is also tomorrow s growth in production capacity and the production of more goods tomorrow would reduce inflation.

Growth is anemic, unemployment is high, and new investment has fallen off dramatically all of which complicate already difficult financial, social, and political conditions.

Recent major efforts include the social and economic renewal plan known as Vamos Guatemala (Let's go Guatemala! ) which is a comprehensive effort to promote economic growth, increase competitiveness, expand and improve social investment and reduce poverty.

The Fund financed social infrastructure and community development projects for low income groups, which were provided with technical and financial resources and with information at various levels in accordance with the concept of structured social investment.

He welcomed the proposal for promoting a better understanding of international investment issues and noted the plan to facilitate and enhance positive corporate social contributions.

Actions to be implemented under this law will be delegated to relevant programmes such as the Honduran Fund for Social Investment, which finances microenterprise projects.

In that way, we can make investment and social spending sustainable in the medium and long term and thereby reduce our dependence on external resources.

In some developing countries, such as Ghana, India, Lebanon and Nigeria, there are positive trends with evidence of companies considering philanthropic activities as social investment.

At a similar social cost to ROCs, a feed in tariff would give confidence to utilities and suppliers of components to undertake the required heavy investment.

With regard to economic and social policy, the government must manage the national debt while encouraging investment and employment and strengthening public education and health programs.

Health and social affairs represent a priority sector among the social sectors in the public investment programme (PIP) their share (8.4 per cent in 1999) is much higher than the share of current spending in the national operating budget.

This treaty improved the investment climate and encouraged investment.

The resulting rise in social tensions is being addressed through expanded provision of rural services, investment in urban infrastructure and service provision, and regularization of migrants status.

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 all likelihood, the 22 reported dead from swine flu reflect a social safety net falling to pieces due to lack of public investment and union recalcitrance.

The investment on people, the construction of an active welfare state through the modernisation of the European social model, with cohesion and a labour market without exclusions.