Profitability index (PI), also known as profit investment ratio (PIR) and value investment ratio (VIR), is the ratio of payoff to investment of a proposed project.

As an outcome of the project, a publication entitled Asian Investment in Africa Towards a New Cooperation among Developing Countries is being prepared.

Advice and assistance should be made available to foreign investors In this regard, the role of one stop shopss should be clarified, and their role as facilitators of foreign investment throughout all the phases of thean investment project should be improved.

Future actions. In general the absence of a long tem strategy posed problems for the sustainability of the project, or the security of the investment.

The project will provide assistance in establishing the prerequisites for the rehabilitation and development of the country's upland resources and set the stage for further long term investment in the mountain regions.

Investing in development

This project will implement a full featured trading system integrated with the systems supported by the master record keeper custodian.

Second, investment in real estate development accounts for nearly one quarter of the total.

Its main objectives included providing a basic body of information for managers of World Bank projects and governmental agencies and, hence, to reducing investment in individual social evaluations.

Investing in Happy Endings

Underinvesting in Resilience

Investment in developing countries

The secretariat also concluded the joint UNCTAD CUTS DFID project on investment for development with a project briefing and a global seminar held in January 2004.

On the ground, this project involves a number of investors who are already present in these countries, soliciting their views on investment conditions and opportunities and reflecting them in the guides.

Rather than securing investment for productive sectors of the economy, the financial industry has become adept at securing investment in itself.

The investment policy reviews and investment guides produced by UNCTAD had been valuable in improving the investment policy environment in those countries.

Investment

Getting Investment in Europe Right

Breaking China s Investment Addiction

Investment Policy Review of Colombia.

Investment in human development

Investment in developing countries

Most of the project was done in the last few years of the project.

The project aims at implementing best practices in investment facilitation and promotion through a so called Blue Book, which was prepared and issued by the secretariat in November 2004.

In particular, the Thai Exim Bank and the Board of Investment have been providing facilities (e.g. information, outward investment missions) to help Thai firms venture abroad.

The Project on Strengthening Networking and Expertise on Foreign Direct Investment in ESCWA Member Countries, executed with ESCWA, covers the West Asian region.

(d) A team of project assistants will be set up, to work on the technical tasks of the project.

This project contributes towards the implementation of the CEDAW by endorsing the following articles in the project's activities

Number 2 i'm asking to invest in you

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

listen to at least three radio stations a day.

The Best Investments

Investment costs

Investment guides

Reinvestment

Invest wisely.

The second source is private investment.

Return on investment in the case of industrial products.

The environment investing in better resource management

SUMMARY OF DELIBERATIONS OF THE INVESTMENT POLICY REVIEWS OF ALGERIA, BENIN AND SRI LANKA

The representative of the UNCTAD secretariat took note of the request for follow up.

C. Investing in physical infrastructure

Follow up to the IPR of Ghana

(a) Investment in the water and sanitation sector

Good Governance in Investment Promotion