(vi) Aid as a proportion of total capital investment.

Such investment will greatly facilitate social, environmental and economic linkages.

Special emphasis will be given to investment related environmental issues.

Environmental issues are being actively pursued, with emphasis on environmental protection compatible with mineral resource investment and development.

Aid is not charity it is an investment in peace, security and human solidarity.

The importance of aid notwithstanding, trade and investment were pivotal for ensuring sustainable development.

Fourth, China dispenses aid without compliance conditions such as environmental protection measures or community participation exercises.

We believe that investment in human resources is an important element of aid to the continent.

There are positive signs, too, that momentum is indeed building to increase investment and aid flows.

Further efforts should be made to provide the economic rationale for investment in environmental sustainability.

Investment in alternative energy technologies like solar and wind is no longer peddled on environmental grounds.

The utilization of aid in investment programmes prepared and implemented within the framework of the poverty reduction strategy papers provides improved safeguards for the efficient use of aid.

Here is a proposal an Investment Contract Aid Facility (ICAF) under the umbrella of a well respected organization.

It also requires providing financial help, ranging from debt forgiveness to investment, loans, and other forms of aid.

the adoption of long term trade, aid and investment policies that help empower marginalised groups and promote participation.

22. Japan reports that it attaches great importance in its environmental aid to enhancing the ability of developing countries to deal with environmental problems and facilitating the transfer of environmentally sound technology, by means of its grant aid and technical cooperation schemes.

Environmental considerations should also be factored into foreign direct investment and trade policies as drivers of development.

(71) Investment programme for reducing environmental pollution (Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety)

They explored ways of improving the climate for private investment by leveraging multilateral development banks and aid agencies to catalyse private investment, and bringing financial governance capacity building to scale.

While receiving financial aid from the developed countries, Kyrgyzstan itself is a donor of environmental services whose value increases yearly.

31. The report also noted an interesting relation between official aid pledges and the possibilities for increased foreign private investment.

Investment in environmental and natural resource sustainability has been proved to yield very high returns in the long term.

Unfortunately, that is not happening. Almost all environmental aid about 21.5 billion, according to the OECD is spent on climate change.

The productivity of aid has also improved because of progress in the policy environment and the investment climate in developing countries.

This requires improved security, inflows of aid and investment, and the curtailment of land expropriations that deny the promise of statehood.

They also supported the idea of greater consistency in the aid, trade, investment, debt and development cooperation policies of developed countries.

Issues to be addressed include the following management of mineral economies public and private sector roles environmental management in industry government roles in environmental protection investment, taxation and profits information on mineral resources and environmental liability and site rehabilitation.

This includes long term investment in environmental conservation and other measures, including early warning facilities, to protect against natural disasters.

We seek to reaffirm the need for a specific focus on synergies and interrelationship between aid, trade and investment, debt relief and good governance, including in the coordination and the effective use of aid.

In financial year 1992 alone, it is estimated that Japan apos s environmental aid rose to about 280 billion yen ( 2.4 billion).

Inward investment is sorely needed, and post conflict emergency aid needs to be followed up by longer term donor assistance and development.

The provision of greater economic aid, debt relief, public and private investment, and technology transfer to those countries was of prime importance.

How do we promote programmes of aid, trade and investment which will be beneficial to the region and not reinforce existing inequalities?

Band Aid, Live Aid.

2. Urges multilateral development finance and bilateral aid institutions to give high priority to increased investment in the industrial sector as a means of encouraging foreign private investment in the industrial sectors in Africa

One supporting tool in this endeavour will be the further development of national environmental profiles, identifying among other things environmental issues that have a major impact on social and economic development, the value of environmental goods and services, degradation and returns on investment.

52. The important relationship between environmental concerns and economics has become more apparent in recent years, particularly as the potential impact of social and environmental cost benefit analysis of investment projects on natural resources and environmental services becomes more integrated into economic thinking.

Land grabs, chronic corruption, impunity, the inability to enforce contracts, and the fragmentation and ineffectiveness of aid deterred foreign and domestic investment further.

The Section is also responsible for the production of daily cash projections to aid the investment officers in the proper management of cash.

In 2002, remittances accounted for 1.3 of the GDP, 55.9 of foreign direct investment and 140 of aid flows in the developing world.

Our aid is effective aid.

Aid us, lord, aid us.

However, the income level of the entrepreneurs is not yet adequate to take care of both mine investment needs and environmental concerns.

Growing numbers of environmental investment funds are creating a favourable business climate for companies that research, produce and market environmentally sound technologies.

The system facilitates decision making on investment programmes for water resource management in the context of other economic, social and environmental objectives.