(b) Bringing international private investors and MFIs together

Private sector development Encouragement of international investors to join with local investors and developers to provide accommodation, food, entertainment and information services.

Indeed, technology transfer is increasingly driven by market forces and international private investors.

In addition, ODS is a co sponsor of the Money Matters Initiative, a public private policy approach involving leading private investors.

Government investors are not necessarily driven by the return maximizing calculus that motivates private investors. If foreign official demand is the real reason behind the euro s strength, the risk is that foreign sovereign euro buyers will eventually flee, just as private investors would, only in a faster and more concentrated way.

So in the end I went to private investors and I just gave up on it.

The participation of private sector investors from the host country is sometimes required by the national law.

The success of these funds would demonstrate to private investors, particularly socially responsible investors, not only the investment potential but also the social impact of emerging markets for financial services to the poor.

The involvement of local private investors in these enterprises is a recent phenomenon due mainly to indigenization and privatization programmes.

In other words, the benefits of these industries for the society as a whole exceed those for the private investors.

Private sector representatives emphasized the positive impact produced by economic reforms on private investors' perception of the country, as a result of which several partnership agreements had recently been established between foreign companies and the local private sector.

In addition, there is no agreement as to what extent the private investors in infrastructure projects should have their risks covered.

The environmental impact of tourism is heavily influenced by the decisions taken by private sector investors and operators of tourism enterprises.

In addition these designated national authorities also facilitate communication among Parties as well as between Parties and potential private sector investors.

Second, domestic and foreign investors would have an incentive to invest because such investment would remove supply bottlenecks affecting private activities.

Another aim is to sustain the revival of private renting by encouraging more investors into the market through the creation of housing investment trusts and through further deregulation of private renting.

Private investment, particularly in productive sectors, remained low due to an ongoing lack of confidence of potential investors in the political situation.

Yet because of their confidence in those countries economies and ability to pay, private investors had extended loans to them without inhibition.

SMEs needed assistance in improving institutional and structural capacities over the long term, so that national and foreign private investors would be attracted.

Over the past three years, private investors have invested more than 3 billion euros in generating energy from wind, water, sun and biomass.

With that objective in mind, the African countries had initiated reforms to encourage private sector initiative, mobilize domestic resources and attract foreign investors.

This means that in order not to miss out on the GII, developing countries need to attract private investors to their telecom sector.

Financing for the most expensive projects implementing green energy systems, building transport infrastructure, and developing modern cities must come from foreign institutional investors. But high quality private investors are resistant to financing lumpy, illiquid investments in fragile, volatile states.

Double bottom line ventures invest primarily in SMEs and include development venture capital funds where the public sector helps to cover the risks that might deter private investors while the private partner manages the investments.

An interest subsidy programme (five percentage points) on loans contracted by private investors and enterprises from commercial banks was also initiated in April (US 16 million fund), which is expected to reactivate private sector investment.

However, private investors were confident only if the aforementioned preconditions were in place, which enabled them to receive a better return on their investments.

The guide might also mention various forms of tax incentives granted to private investors (e.g. permanent incentives or incentives that were limited in time).

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.

In order to encourage private investors to pursue long term, responsible projects, governments need to promote consistent policies and frameworks. In addition to immediate uncertainties, investors are being held back by a shortage of incentives and a surplus of factors that reduce returns.

Offering incentives to attract private investors to the telecommunications sector and assigning them a definite role in expanding and upgrading the system have also been considered.

On the legislative front, key laws have recently been enacted to ensure the existence of an enabling environment for both the private sector and external investors.

28. The secretariat apos s experience to date, obtained in close collaboration with the private sector and NGOs, in promoting the establishment of an international microfinance market suggests that investment by international private investors in microfinance in developing countries is feasible.

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The developing countries should bear in mind that private investors were interested only in projects that were financially attractive and were therefore unlikely to invest in social projects.

3. Emphasizes the role of the private sector in each country, including international investors, to contribute positively to the implementation of national macroeconomic policies and macroeconomic stabilization programmes

Quite apart from the disastrous effects which the institutional crisis has had on economic activity, it is clear that the present situation is hardly reassuring to private investors.

The purpose of these important rules is to protect outside investors from the opportunism of insiders. When such rules are too lax, insiders face insufficient constraints on their ability to run the firm in ways that serve their private interests at the expense of outside, general investors.

Where the benefits are unlikely to accrue to private investors, who should pay for the early demonstration models, which will require billions of dollars? How should we preserve private incentives for research and development while committing to transfer successful technologies to developing countries?

Subsequent programs to deal with emerging market crises featured an analogous combination of country adjustment and private sector involvement. Voluntary debt exchanges worked, roughly speaking, with investors accepting haircuts.

quot 3. Emphasizes the role of the private sector in each country including international investors, to contribute positively to the implementation of national macroeconomic policies, and macroeconomic stabilization programmes

2. Appeals to the international community, in particular developed countries, regional and international financial institutions and private investors, to enhance their financial and technical support to sustain industrial development

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After 14 years of devastating war, we faced enormous challenges. Our democratically elected government has worked with international partners and a growing number of private investors to turn things around.

After 14 years of devastating war, we faced enormous challenges. Our democratically elected government has worked with international partners and a growing number of private investors to turn things around.