Additional investments in capital goods offer very low returns.

Foreign central banks are suffering capital losses on their unthinking investments.

Before World War II, venture capital investments (originally known as development capital ) were primarily the domain of wealthy individuals and families.

Moreover, making the transition requires investments in human capital that individuals often cannot afford.

The eurozone provides the only large capital market other than the US for such investments.

Without sustained investments in human capital and institution building, growth is condemned to peter out.

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

This requires significantly increased investments in human capital and development oriented infrastructure, such as energy, transport and communications.

The report calls for co financing of MDG based investment, and concludes that aid financed infrastructure development and human capital investments can make a vast difference in promoting investments, especially FDI.

Chinese capital is behind several large scale investments in hydropower, mining, timber, agriculture, transportation, and infrastructure in the region.

Consequently, we must turn to multilateral financial institutions, seek foreign capital investments and the cooperation of developed countries' governmental agencies.

As we continue to invest in development of our human capital, HIV AIDS continues to eat away at those investments.

The growth in domestic investments would not only enhance national wealth, but would also spur the demand for foreign capital and technology in an escalating, mutually reinforcing manner that makes investments demand driven.

But capital will continue to flow into green ventures. I think of it as seed money for a wholesale reconfiguration of global industry.

If people are saving half their income, their investments in capital have the potential to propel the economy at a rapid pace.

Given China s 43 billion trade surplus and 30 billion in foreign investments during this period, capital inflows must have been a contributing factor.

France integrated the economy of Cameroun with that of France and improved the infrastructure with capital investments, skilled workers, and continued forced labour.

Investments in infrastructure and human capital are the bedrock for increasing average productivity and for ensuring high growth over a sustained period of time.

Options include international debt financing, domestic tax revenue and user fees, borrowing in domestic capital markets, and public private partnerships for water related investments.

Loan guarantee programmes could help to secure access to capital markets for investments in sanitation, whether for households, community based organizations, or local authorities.

The next challenge will be to push for a restoration of bank capital, so that commercial banks can once again lend for longer term investments.

A well capitalized World Bank leverages all its shareholders investments by pooling them and then raising five times the capital by borrowing in financial markets.

Mutual and other private sector funds require minimum terms for investments, and such mandatory lock up periods should be applied to capital inflows as well.

When fully functional, it will provide financing for the mobilization of seed capital and technical assistance to develop and support mechanisms for mobilizing domestic resources and capital in order to improve the availability of affordable housing, adequate shelter and infrastructure.

Similarly, Governments could provide seed capital to revolving funds for use in site upgrading, provision of mortgage loan insurance to vulnerable groups and other aspects of shelter provision.

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.

They can take advantage of the current bonanza in available capital to build contestability, transparency, and institutional quality around markets in which greenfield investments can be implemented.

The types of investments being made include capital and operating funding, fee subsidies, wage enhancements, training, professional development and support, quality assurance, and parent information and referral.

A random seed (or seed state, or just seed) is a number (or vector) used to initialize a pseudorandom number generator.

Seed scarcity is directly caused by seed monopolies, which have as their ultimate weapon a terminator seed that is engineered for sterility.

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Today s capital markets raise money for governments, corporate clients, and individual customers, manage pension funds investments, and bet on the level of interest rates or the stock market.

In Tajikistan, a landlocked country, those difficulties concerned access to investments, markets and modern technology, closed borders and barriers to free movement of goods, services, capital and labour.

It also recognizes the importance of the development of human capital in Afghanistan through ongoing investments in health and education and enhancing the productive capacity of rural communities.

Here, UN programmes such as UNDP could act as catalysts for integrating aid, as a form of seed capital, into the enhancement and facilitation of positive corporate contributions to development.

Believers in low interest rates also emphasize shifts in income distribution in the United States away from labor and toward capital, which have greatly boosted firms' resources to finance investment internally and reduced their dependence on capital markets. They point to rapid technological progress, which has boosted output from new and old capital investments.

We need to ensure sustained levels of public spending to make the necessary investments in infrastructure and human capital, and to increase ODA channeled through the budgets of poor countries.

Specific initiatives to support water and sanitation investments could also be considered, such as partial capital grants or loans to municipalities for investing in sewerage and waste water treatment facilities.

The Ministers called for increased investments in human capital and material resources in the area of information and communication and noted that some Member Countries are moving in that direction.

The word of God is the seed and the sower of the seed is Christ.

Secondaries Secondary investments refer to investments made in existing private equity assets.

It sowed a seed... .

Likewise, economists have long noted that for countries gorging on capital inflows, there is a big difference between debt instruments and equity like investments, including both stocks and foreign direct investment.

Consider Germany, which in 2006 exported capital worth 108 billion, only 25 billion of which was for direct investments, whereas net domestic investment in all sectors combined was only 75 billion.

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