The authors present a broad, detailed, and fair assessment of private equity the business of investing in established companies through debt financed purchases of controlling stakes. (By contrast, venture capitalists support start ups almost entirely through equity.)

These funds are to philanthropy what venture capital, private equity, and eventually mutual funds are to investing, but with a twist because often a community forms around these funds, as it has at Acumen and other places.

Fundline includes portfolio investment funds, private equity funds and companies, venture capital funds, mutual funds and other equity vehicles.

During the FW, when Indian firms began investing overseas their OFDI operations were financed largely through equity outflows from the home country.

The connection between the general interest and the private interest of individual Americans has, if anything, become much stronger, even if their private interest is tied to a post office box in the Cayman Islands. Indeed, no private equity fortunes were made over the past generation without investing in or trading with the prosperous North Atlantic industrial core of the world economy.

When companies pursued their private interests by investing, transferring knowledge and employing people, there were public benefits.

And yet there is a major difference between how private equity operates and how a family buys a home. Only a small part of the equity ownership acquired by any private equity fund comes from money provided by the partners who found and operate the fund.

However, Councilman Nottola is also a private citizen, and there's no law against investing in a construction company.

11. The DOH Ten Year Investment Plan (1996 2006) entitled, Investing in equity in health embodies the overall goals and strategies for the health sector.

The private sector responded to the favourable investment climate by investing in services, construction and other resource based industries.

39. Of the three forms of private capital flow (loans, FDI and portfolio equity), FDI and portfolio equity investments are more relevant in the present context of African economies.

21. The UNCTAD initiated private BIL fund, investing in microfinance, has demonstrated to the international financial markets that the poor are bankable.

Most of the attention has been fixed on China s 1 trillion in reserves, and its efforts to maintain the value of those assets. Diversification from US Treasury bills by investing some 3 billion in the Blackstone private equity fund this summer was swiftly followed by an embarrassing collapse in value.

Other headlines that have recently reached South Africa were Bain Capital and KKR, the big boys of private equity.

27. There are three main categories of private resource flow loans, foreign direct investment (FDI), and portfolio equity investment.

Investing in our youth means, as always, investing in our future.

Studies presented at the latter meeting detailed the nature and scope of private sector involvement, including taking equity, forming public private partnerships and fostering other types of joint ventures.

That is that private equity has been sniffing around, and that tells me that this market is about to explode.

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Many developing countries are investing in their people, promoting democracy and the rule of law, tackling corruption and welcoming the private sector as a partner.

He noted with pleasure the envisaged participation in that segment of major figures from the private sector who had relevant experience of investing in developing countries.

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Unfortunately, since private investors were not interested in investing in activities that could not generate immediate profits, African countries had generally not attracted large private flows and for them ODA remained a crucial source of external funding.

All public sector employers are required to achieve and maintain pay equity, as are all private sector employers with 10 or more employees.

The changing balance between the public and private sector raises concern about equity and access to services, especially for the most needy populations.

C. Investing in physical infrastructure

86. Investing in human resources.

Governors from both industrialized and developing countries had acknowledged the benefits of macroeconomic stability and structural reform, while others had highlighted issues such as the importance of investing in health and education, the role of such investments in increasing social equity, and the link between social equity and the sustainability of the reform process.

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Investing now in the survival, education and protection of children is indeed investing in the future of Haiti.

Similar reckless lending practices prevailed in the leveraged buyout market, where private equity firms take over public companies and finance the deals with high debt ratios the leveraged loan market, where banks provide financing to private equity firms and the asset backed commercial paper market, where banks use off balance sheet schemes to borrow very short term.

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Investing in preparedness and risk reduction

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I'm investing everything in raw diamonds.

You are not investing any money

Investing in the capacity of local government to provide universal basic services is investing in healthier women and families.

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And it would be worthy of the kind of private equity work she used to do when she was making a lot more money for it.

Domestic resource mobilization, remittances from expatriate workers, private debt and equity flows, and philanthropic contributions exceed official international aid by a wide margin. Private flows are no longer the tail, but the dog that wags the development agenda.

In larger freedom and Investing in development are united in underlining the need for a greatly increased investment rate, both public and private, to achieve the MDGs particularly in the LDCs.