Let's also think about how we manage risks for example, investing in the stock market.

Or did you put your savings in stocks, mutual funds or bonds?

The top 1 own half the country's stocks, bonds and mutual funds.

In other words, rather than shifting from investment led to consumer led growth, China appears to be continuing along its investment led growth track.

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

Pension funds, mutual funds, and investment banks are all long in the stock market.

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Reflecting flawed economic arguments, India embraced autarky in trade and rejected inflows of equity investment.

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Economic development in Africa The role of foreign direct investment in growth and development

So, with lower growth expectations, the trills would likely have a much lower price now.

Stronger safety net programs might reduce the need for precautionary savings in the future, but such reforms cannot be accomplished overnight.

Shortfalls in investment eventually diminish growth and employment opportunities.

The main ingredient needed to achieve faster sustained growth is increased investment.

Knowledge and technology have contributed less and less to economic growth as a result of lower investment rates.

Most investment in modern biotechnology has been in developed countries.

Indeed, infrastructure investment is recognized as a key ingredient in sustaining and accelerating growth.

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It makes it easier to sell stocks and other investment vehicles.

It was also questioned whether the provision of special protection for shareholders would not in fact protect the investment rather than the national.

The basic legal structure for foreign investment in Peru is formed by the 1993 constitution, the Private Investment Growth Law, and the November 1996 Investment Promotion Law.

Indeed, rapid growth in investment may translate into high import growth and trade deficits.

Slow growth has hit equity valuations hard, and both economies are at risk of a major downturn.

This practice is considered by some to dilute the influence of shareholders, and to be a distortion of the connection between investment risk and the decision making process.

The beneficiary ownership structure of an enterprise is of great importance in an investment decision, especially with regard to the equitable treatment of shareholders.

To be specific, we need to foster growth, based on increased investment.

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

The size of that investment would vary according to the rate of economic growth (between 3 and 5 per cent).

Without the inventory investment, the growth rate of final sales averaged less than 1 .

In 2005, the Egyptian stock exchange returned over 145 percent.

The unprecedented growth of OFDI during the SW is accompanied by significant changes in the financing patterns of OFDI.

A country's domestic growth prospects played a significant role in FDI site selection.

For China, it is excessive reliance on fixed asset investment for growth.

Through pension funds, investment funds, and arbitrage (or hedge) funds, shareholders became well organized and seized power in developed countries firms.

Currently, the investment section has six investment officers who cover global equity markets and fixed income investments.

Overall, FDI flows are expected to increase over the medium term because of improvements in the main fundamentals that drive FDI a broad based economic recovery, equity market valuations and mergers and acquisitions (M As) activity.

With corporations cautious about investing and governments prudent about expenditure especially given the grandiose investments of the past exports have led growth.

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But the main problem is that public sector investment remains well below growth sustaining levels.

The engines of growth include public and private investment, particularly for the new technologies needed to raise farm productivity.

US growth will be driven by the recovery of investment, which fell precipitously during the crisis.

For now, investment in a shift to a sustainable growth and employment pattern has been crowded out.