But cheap credit promotes bad investment and excessive debt, which borrowers often are unable to repay. More fundamentally, investment is a bet that cannot pay off if growth is structurally depressed.

But the pay off is really enormous.

He wants to pay off his loan.

The investment will pay for itself in less than two years.

And I think it'll all pay off in the end.

Social investment in programs that pay off over the long term, such as pre school child care, is suffering from financial constraints. National security is not given the priority it deserves, despite growing threats.

It makes sense to pay off your credit card balance every month.

The risks are massive, but the pay off economic, humanitarian, motivational it's absolutely huge.

However, in the long run, the gains accruing from climate change mitigation will pay off.

The number of people living in extreme poverty would fall by 160 million. For every dollar spent, mostly to pay off Western farmers blocking the current negotiations, the world would achieve more than 2,000 of benefits, making free trade a phenomenal investment.

The second lever for investment is regulatory in nature. Many large scale investments that only pay off over the long term for example, in energy, digital infrastructure, and transport are concentrated in state regulated sectors, giving governments the power to influence business decisions.

Space science should continue to play a vital role, as even a modest investment in that area could pay big dividends.

While local administrations receive a budget allocation to pay for salaries, there is usually no provision for goods and services, or investment.

(5) to pay off the debts of workers with violation of the provision of Article 58 of the present General Rules.

The investment made over the past several years has paid off in substantive improvements in greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories and reporting.

Given that outstanding loans already amount to nearly double China s GDP a result of the country s massive stimulus since 2008 new loans are largely being used to pay off old debts, rather than for investment in the real economy. Thus, the more relevant concern is that the balance of outstanding loans has not risen.

Red lining was used by banks, wherein certain sections of the city, including ours, were deemed off limits to any sort of investment.

It might be expensive to compensate all potential losers, but we must put our money where our mouth is if a reform is certain to pay off handsomely, it will pay for the buy offs, and more. Governments can borrow what they need to pay out now, and service this debt as reforms yield benefits.

Therefore, all five successor States, which are States Members of the United Nations and pay their assessed contributions, believe that these arrears should be written off.

But the puzzle represents an even bigger elephant. Why does any investment manager buy the stocks of banks that pay out very large portions of their earnings to their employees?

Given this reality, the best bankers, traders, dealmakers, etc. will work for companies that provide the most attractive compensation. Greater pay regulation will drive the most talented away from regulated banks and towards hedge funds, private equity funds, boutique investment banks, and other unregulated investment firms.

And all the people and I think there's a lot of people at TED who do things because even though there's not an immediate return on the investment because it will only really pay off when everybody else has done it they'll do it because they're the sort of person who just does things which would be good if everybody else did them.

But whose consumption? If almost everyone agrees that more investment is needed to elevate and sustain growth, but most believe that someone else should pay for it, investment will fall victim to a burden sharing impasse reflected in the political process, electoral choices, and the formulation of fiscal stabilization measures.

The way to cure an ailing pension system is to cut pensions. And privatizations should aim at higher sale prices to pay off debt that many (privately) agree is unsustainable.

So the net result would be a 200 billion increase in the national debt. American taxpayers would then have to pay 2 billion a year in real interest on that extra national debt over the next 30 years, and then pay off or roll over the entire 200 billion.

Tom Sawyer pulled off that business strategy when he persuaded his friends to pay him for the privilege of taking over his hated chore, painting the picket fence. But most scientific research subjects either receive compensation or contribute their time free of charge they do not pay to participate.

Reliance on the traditional method has resulted in missed opportunities, particularly given that productive public sector investment can more than pay for itself. Investments in infrastructure, education, and technology help drive long term growth.

The constructive (and relatively quick) trade policy response in the aftermath of the Great Depression did not pay off immediately. But, in the long run, it produced a much better policymaking environment.

That's why they don't know whether their mutual fund manager is taking 0.1 percent or 0.15 percent of their investment, but they clip coupons to save one dollar off of toothpaste.

It is the result of politics and policies in several major economies politics and policies that choked off demand. In the absence of demand, investment and jobs will fail to materialize.

Only a price reduction would create current account surpluses and enable the crisis countries to pay off their foreign debts. It is time for Europe to come to terms with this remorseless truth.

Improved social policies and increased investment in education have been substantial factors. But the decline in the pay differential between skilled and unskilled workers what economists call the skill premium has also played an important role.

One congressman here in the United States thinks that the entire investment that the U.S. put into smallpox eradication pays itself off every 26 days in foregone treatment costs and vaccination costs.

It creates political insecurity, discourages returns, feeds extremist designs, scares off foreign direct investment and maintains the inhabitants of Kosovo, irrespective of ethnicity, in the grip of massive unemployment and economic misery.

These remittances are not wasted on weapons or siphoned off into Swiss bank accounts they go straight into local people s pockets. They pay for food, clean water, medicines, and to keep kids in school.

The only escape from this trap is investment in education, which would pay enormous social dividends. Consider, for example, that Roma represent more than 20 of new entrants into the labor force in the above mentioned countries.

The investment deficiency in Asia relative to rates of a decade ago amounts to an annual shortfall of 400 billion a year, with the decline in investment in Japan a consequence of more than a decade of economic stagnation accounting for more than half of the total. Moreover, investment rates in the newly industrialized economies of Asia have never recovered to their pre 1997 8 crisis levels, and investment rates in the rest of Asia outside China have fallen off as well.

In addition, governments consider natural resources to be strategic and don t release information about them. Finally, time frames related to energy are usually long centuries for environmental effects or decades for investments to pay off.

Moreover, for Keynes, t he game of professional investment is intolerably boring and over exacting to anyone who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct whilst he who has it must pay to this propensity the appropriate toll...

This treaty improved the investment climate and encouraged investment.

I'll pay.

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As for Europe, the Kirchner s have not yet paid off Argentina s debt pending since the default to the Paris Club of sovereign creditors. All of this hinders foreign investment and access to international credit.

Debt not only caused an outflow of capital to pay the principal and interest on external debt, but also hindered efforts to attract foreign direct investment and promote economic activity, a fact not reflected in the debt flow approach.

This whole tangle of debts was finally de facto written off in 1932 in the middle of the global slump. But, until 1980, Germany continued repaying the loans that it had incurred to pay the reparations.