Decisions about business investment are even starker.

Business coverage gained prominence in the 1990s, with wider investment in the stock market.

They also help companies take informed business and investment decisions.

Such partnership schemes sometimes involving business associations and international institutions also exist with a view to identifying business investment opportunities in LDCs.

In May 2004, he led an investment mission of 500 Brazilian business entrepreneurs to China.

This is my first investment in media but I have a background in business for many years.

Our business representatives came with me to present large scale investment projects.

South African investment banker Euvin Naidoo explains why investing in Africa can make great business sense.

Investment banks had transformed their business in ways their managers and boards clearly did not understand.

The most recent measure of orders for nondefense capital goods signaled a decline in business investment.

In terms of outward FDI policies, several developing countries have established outward investment agencies (OIAs), whose primary function is to promote and facilitate investment abroad by helping domestic enterprises develop international business links and pursue overseas business opportunities.

In a globalizing world, competition for foreign direct investment focuses on the establishment of a good business environment and investment incentives, consistent with national development objectives.

That would weaken the stock market, lower business investment, and impede economic growth.

The Ugandan Government would strive to create an enabling investment and business environment.

We know it is also crucial to improve the business and investment climate.

First, governments need to adopt urgent business climate reforms in order to foster investment, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

In August 2001, he wrote that, The driving force behind the current slowdown is a plunge in business investment.

Business investment is also weak, even though large corporations have very high cash balances.

Lower share prices will now have negative effects on consumer spending and business investment.

Malawi offered a good business climate and many investment opportunities that should be tapped.

The Africa Asia Business Forum aims to stimulate trade and investment between countries in both regions, bringing together business representatives to discuss possible joint ventures, bilateral agreements, enterprise exchanges and a variety of business instruments.

In fact, fixed business investment as a share of GDP is some 2 lower today than 4 years ago.

The higher interest rates would also apply to corporate bonds and bank loans, weakening business investment.

Russia s relations with the EU are governed by an agreement signed in June 1994 concerning trade, business and investment, competition issues, protection of intellectual, industrial, and business property, and financial cooperation.

An Act of Parliament in September 1944 established the subsidiary Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) to stimulate investment in Canadian businesses.

The increase in the household saving rate reduces America s need for foreign funds to finance its business investment and residential construction.

On the business side, investment and employment follows demand once the inventory cycle has run its course.

Still, overall, business investment excluding construction has returned to 10 of GDP (from 10.6 before the crisis).

According to the World Investment Report 2011 by the UN Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Kraków is also the most emerging city location for investment in global BPO projects (Business Process Outsourcing) in the world.

However, private business will not step up investment unless there is a clear policy direction for the economy.

Continued fiscal expansion is certainly not the answer, as it ultimately damages both private spending and business investment.

UNIDO's efforts to promote domestic investment, FDI and other forms of business alliances are intended to strengthen institutions for the provision of public goods for investment promotion and accessing supply chain networks in developing countries.

Financial markets, through which investment is made, were always liable to collapse when something happened to disturb business confidence.

Throughout the world, the business sector remains both the predominant performer and the predominant funder of R D investment.

However, in a subsequent submission, the claimant provided a business licence, an investment contract between himself and the Kuwaiti licence holder and an attestation from the licence holder as to the claimant's ownership of the business.

Indonesia, for example, has experienced accelerating growth, with rising business and consumer confidence boosting investment to almost 33 of GDP.

They may induce wasteful investment and a loss in innovation. Their corrections may also have costs a business slump and a further loss of innovation.

But, t o reflate the economy, he told us, the Fed doesn t have to restore business investment any kind of increase in demand will do.

Taking advantage of the improved investment climate in the country, young people are initiating small scale business ventures in numbers never seen in the history of our region.

It supports the development of the microenterprise and small scale business sector by providing working capital and capital investment loan products.

Heads of state tripped over one another to meet business leaders in Mumbai, hoping to pave the way for a significant expansion of trade and investment.

In countries with a poor business environment, special economic zones or industrial parks can facilitate firm entry, foreign direct investment, and the formation of industrial clusters.

The geographic location of Benin, its membership in ECOWAS, its close business ties with Nigeria, and its natural resources highlighted the investment potential of the country.

That would mean that the US would continue to need substantial inflows of foreign capital to fund business investment and housing construction.

He emphasized the general principle prohibiting unconscionable corporate behaviour and two economic responsibilities (a) to assess the risk of an investment properly and with due diligence, and (b) to conduct the investment with reasonable care in accordance with sound business principles.