A key priority must be to increase investment by creating a climate of trust.

It would increase confidence in Ireland and allow us to increase the existing flow of inward foreign direct investment.

The reduced deficits would restore confidence, which would restore investment and thus growth.

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

We believe that there is a need for more creative initiatives and greater efforts in capacity building and infrastructural development in order to increase FDI to African countries.

Self trust is a critical factor in trust creating.

Accepting Japan at Its Word

Finally, South Africa s problems reflect a loss of confidence in the government, endemic corruption, massive infrastructure needs, and restrictive labor market and foreign investment regulation. And, in terms of reform, President Jacob Zuma is not headed in the right direction.

Overconfidence tends to be as destabilizing as a lack of it.

the CICA Ministers of Foreign Affairs meeting

Part of the difficulty of contending with a crisis of confidence is that it is hard to quantify confidence in the first place.

The concept of trust is decisive in promoting participation which in turn represents the base for building and reinforcing trust.

In order to avoid the recurring crises of the past, Argentina must re establish trust and implement a macroeconomic program to slow inflation, maintain fiscal balance, and promote investment, technological development, and education.

Soviet era deference to paternalistic leaders gave way to self confidence and distrust of established authority.

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

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

Trust Negotiations, Not Iran

Investing in development

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

The Productivity of Trust

The Profitability of Trust

The Confidence Game.

The Confidence Game

The Death of Trust

Building trust

So far, business confidence is still high in the industrial sector, according to internal surveys conducted by the São Paulo Association of Industries, and inward FDI hit a record high US 34.6bn last year.

Has Financial Innovation Been Discredited?

An IMF program restores confidence in the fiscal soundness of governments that markets distrust.

Of course, confidence and self doubt are not mutually exclusive.

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.

Investing in Happy Endings

Underinvesting in Resilience

Investment in developing countries

Debating the Confidence Fairy

Europe s Trust Deficit

The Global Trust Deficit

Winning the Confidence Game

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

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions.

Charles Hazlewood Trusting the ensemble

Trust relies usually on reciprocal relations.

Confidence in electronic communications inadequate legal provision

Confidence building is a core element at the present juncture.

Because especially now with the economic crisis, you can see that the trust in politics, that the trust in democratic institutions, was really destroyed.

Maybe we should trust each other more but not too much.