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

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

The decline has occurred because, relative to population growth, fixed capital investment, knowledge and skills, and improvements in institutions have not compensated for the degradation of natural capital.

These factors considerably limit those countries' ability to attract foreign direct investment and other international private capital flows.

Initial capital

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.

Thus, 4.3 percentage points of the initial average difference of 27.4 can be attributed to the differences in the human capital of men and women, and to other observable factors.

As above, firm value is enhanced when, and if, the return on capital exceeds the cost of capital.

In China, green capital investment is expected to grow from 170 million in 2005 to more than 720 million in 2008. (In just a few short years, China has become a world leader in wind and solar power, employing more than a million people.)

Much needed capital investment can enable smallholder farmers to provide the private sector with a sustainable supply of high quality agricultural produce.

The Art of Capital Flight

Damming Capital

The Capital Flow Conundrum

Capital flows and remittances

E. Financial capital and resilience

The portion of capital inflows that is not re exported represents net capital inflows.

The Siren Song of Capital Controls

Investment and private flows

(o) Working Capital Fund

Brazil has been aggressive in terms of capital restrictions, twice increasing its tax on financial inflows.

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

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Jacqueline Novogratz on patient capitalism

The reason lies in capital movements.

Finally, there is the path of public capital.

Surviving the Great Capital Flood

Raising capital is expensive.

The Temptation of China s Capital Account

List of tables

The saving rate is the lifeblood of any economy, because foreigners cannot be expected to finance capital investment forever.

This is why equity capital held by financial institutions typically is more than twice as expensive as debt capital and why these institutions try to minimize its use.

Moreover, Li has called upon the banking sector to reinvigorate idle capital and allocate incremental capital more effectively.

It is appropriate to finance (some) long lived public capital investment by government borrowing, since the benefits will accrue for many years, and future taxpayers might equitably bear part of the burden.

Europe s Chimerical Capital Markets Union

Bank Regulation s Capital Mistake

Overexpenditure of small capitalization fees

Encouraging private capital flows and remittances

Advances from the Working Capital Fund

Political capital means the capital that will improve or enhance the NGOs status, possession or access in the existing political system.

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.

Second, not only have new foreign equity investments declined during the financial crisis, but SWFs have also recently engaged in an unprecedented wave of divestments, especially of foreign holdings.

In the case of companies, co operatives and associations, the highest number of credits are given, when the percentage of women's investment in equity capital is higher or equal to 75 and the management is exercised by a woman.

Private capital, which accounts for more than 90 of capital flows to developing economies, will remain the dominant source of long term financing.

South African firms have used their relatively lower cost of capital to invest in other African countries where capital markets were not developed.