The Long Term Investment Challenge

But really, it's a long term investment.

Moreover, infrastructure investment not only creates jobs in the near term, but also promotes long term competitiveness.

Investment strategy is simply the long term allocation of monies among the various asset types and investment markets.

What holds for direct investment holds as well for portfolio and medium term and long term credit flows.

But infrastructure is a long term investment, revenues from which will be lower without accompanying investment in manufacturing capacity.

99. The representative of the Secretary General stressed that short term investment results had little meaning for the Fund in view of its long term needs and investment objectives.

Most people still believe that housing is a great long term investment.

Long term sustainability of debt would require additional resources to finance investment.

Unfortunately, there is often a conflict between long term investment directed against climate change and short term food security.

But no one would claim that lowering short term interest rates spurred investment.

The cropping of oilseeds takes place annually, thereby reducing long term investment requirements.

Clearly, investment in food production must be increased in the medium and longer term.

For starters, banks current retrenchment of long term investment financing is likely to persist.

Foreign direct investment, portfolio investments and short term credits have been the main components.

In the US, neither R D nor overall investment is declining. Indeed, many industries pursue long term investments, notwithstanding their short term stockholders.

At the same time, tax laws have been revised to make investors wealthier in the near term, discouraging long term investment in research.

However, the same countries continued to be magnets for this type of long term investment.

The long term investment objectives of the Fund are, first, to preserve the principal of the Fund in real terms and, second, to obtain an optimal investment return over the long term while avoiding undue risk.

Lingering legal and administrative issues affecting upstream investment, as well as investment in export infrastructure, are likely to constrain export growth in the medium term.

In the former countries, the pay off includes higher domestic saving and investment rates, as well as attraction of investment increasing long term capital inflows.

Longer term growth requires investment by individuals (in education and skills), governments, and the private sector.

Finally, while assets nowadays are much more liquid, this has not boosted long term productive investment.

Cutting taxes is certainly not bad in principle, especially for supporting long term investment and growth.

2. The most dynamic components were private short term capital, including repatriation, and foreign direct investment.

105. While investment in physical capital is an important aspect of stimulating economic growth, investment in human development is an investment in long term competitiveness and a necessary component of stable and sustainable progress.

The beauty of a Tobin tax is that it would discourage short term speculation without having much adverse effect on long term international investment decisions.

CHICAGO Democratic governments are not incentivized to take decisions that have short term costs but produce long term gains, the typical pattern for any investment.

Using it for investment would enhance long term growth, with positive spillovers to the rest of Europe.

China s economy is prone to rapid growth, with buoyant investment demand sustaining powerful short term inflationary pressures.

From the perspectives of both policy and investment, the short and medium term is once again risky.

Private investment, both domestic and foreign, was the most important source of long term financing for development.

This investment shortfall is due to many factors, but perhaps the main one is that there are substantial medium term institutional roadblocks to investment in many developing countries, where long term returns now seem to be by far the highest.

Instead, the panel recommended focusing investment on research into climate engineering as a short term response, and on non carbon based energy as a longer term response.

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

Under option one, UNOPS relies on short term, rapid return portfolios to build its investment capital and reserves.

53. The long term progress and prosperity of developing countries depended on a favourable trading and investment environment.

78. For more privileged women, mining is also an alternative, a business opportunity and a long term investment.

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

Political pressures lead to the prioritization of investment with short term and sectoral orientations in situations of extreme poverty.

They were modernizing their economies to compete internationally and to offer opportunities for medium and long term foreign investment.

Reliance on investment will not enable China to achieve stable, long term growth and prosperity on the contrary it may well inflict serious long term damage on economic performance.

Prevention, like solutions, is cost effective in the long term, but cost intensive in the short term, often requiring considerable investment, particularly in terms of staffing to ensure presence.

To carry out the mission and achieve the Fund's goals and objectives, the Investment Section of the Investment Management Service actively manages portfolios of equity, fixed income, real estate and short term investments, constantly analysing capital markets and investment opportunities.

Indeed, universities may be the most consistently performing products of long term capital investment, especially if one is inclined to think about social and economic investment in exactly the same terms.