Short term investments and reserves

There was the view that, in capital markets, long term flows should be liberalized before short term ones.

(i) Shortage of financial resources

Although long term private financing, particularly in the form of foreign direct investment, largely maintained its pace and direction in 1997, short term financial flows exhibited violent moves.

Initially, it is anticipated that such investment would be short term only but, depending on the position of the Fund, the Secretary General could authorize longer term investments, consistent with the liquidity requirements of the Fund.

As of November 30, 2016, Blackberry s cash, cash equivalents, short term and long term investments amounted to US 1.6 billion.

Impact of funding shortfalls

Private short term financial flows

Particularly in the form of short term loans and portfolio equity, these inflows could be highly unstable and an unreliable source of development finance.

When an important part of the funds used to finance the deficit was composed of short term volatile resources, vulnerability was even greater.

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In that connection, the shortage of finance, both start up capital and long term finance, was a major problem for SMEs.

ICTs enabled finance tools include credit or payment cards for export financing or short term working capital.

Approximately 19 of GEF funds support twelve projects that represent short term response measures to climate change.

(b) Short term investments (number of actions)

The representative of the Secretary General cautioned against focusing on short term results and reiterated that investment returns should be looked at over the long term as the Fund had long term investment objectives.

Private capital, driven by interest, tended to flow to areas that would guarantee short term returns.

The actual interest rate refers to the interest rate adopted to cash the future cash flow of a financial asset or financial liability within the predicted term of existence or within a shorter applicable term into the current carrying amount of the financial asset or financial liability.

Investment income and costs associated with operation of investments in the cash pool are allocated to participating funds

83. The liquidity ratio determines an organization s ability to honour its short term liabilities from short term assets.

The unemployment allowance is payable at the rate of 36 per cent of the average wage, irrespective of the level of remuneration recently received and the length of the period during which the allowance is received (with exceptions).

These capital flows can upset a country s economy as they cause its exchange and interest rates to behave in a volatile way.

Those relations support the enterprise by allocating finance based on a company's long run prospects for sales revenues rather than on short run cash flow problems.

At the request of the Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations, the Office of Internal Oversight Services conducted a review of the state of discipline in all field missions led by the Department, with the major objective of assisting the Department's senior management in determining a course of action to strengthen United Nations standards of conduct and ensure compliance.

That did not allow the financing of short term working capital requirements of many Thai firms that was needed to expand production of exports.

To some extent, this is understandable, given the focus on short term liquidity and capital flows. But the sharply decreased availability of longer term funding is heightening financial sector vulnerabilities.

Total 151.59 49. These funds were invested in short term time deposits ( 97.5 million) bonds and notes ( 53.7 million), which are longer term investments and call accounts ( 0.4 million) for immediate access.

Projected resource requirements for 2005 2007 reveal a 50 per cent shortfall (and at times higher in some African subregions) in collected extrabudgetary funds.

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

The remainder of the balance, consisting of donor contributions, was tied up in short term investments, the majority of which were placed in an investment pool in order to increase liquidity.

Similarly, the temporary control of short term capital flows could be adopted in the case of a country in deep financial crisis.

And it's only a few months since governments injected enormous sums of money to try and keep the whole system afloat.

17. The obligation of funds for the contracts was for short periods, mainly three months, the usual mandate of many of the missions, or occasionally for six months.

The shortfall in funding together with the cost overrun obliged the Agency to advance funds from the General Fund against expected move pledges, to complete the move on schedule.

Hiring through purchase orders

The General Assembly at its resumed fifty seventh session in June 2003 (resolution 57 290 B) requested the Joint Inspection Unit to submit to it at its sixtieth session an evaluation of the implementation of results based budgeting in peacekeeping operations.

(e) Recommend criteria and measures for the effective adaptation and use of the results based management principles, methodology and techniques to meet the specific needs of those activities that would ensure the achievement of the overall objectives of the operations concerned.

We have audited the accompanying financial statements of the United Nations peacekeeping operations comprising statements numbered I to XLIII and the supporting notes for the financial period ended 30 June 2005.

In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the United Nations peacekeeping operations as at 30 June 2005 and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the period then ended, in accordance with the United Nations system accounting standards.

Let me conclude by saying that terrorist financing is not a short term policy with short term goals.

(i) Develop financing strategies that outline the short , medium and long term financial planning for achieving sustainable forest management, taking into account domestic, private sector and foreign funding sources

Our short term goal for this is to be half the price of solar cells and our longer term goal is to be less than a five year payback.

The contractual arrangements cover existing appointments, such as short term, temporary, term limited, fixed term short duration, monthly short term, daily short term, special short term and other types of short term appointments, such as appointments of limited duration.

However, these initiatives have been hampered by a lack of funding, qualified personnel and material resources.

It also reflects the flight of portfolio funds and short term bank lending, the latter having caused major banking and corporate liquidity crises in the countries losing the funds.