Total investment Arg 280 346

Total investment Arg 283 311

Total investment Arg 436 668

Total investment costs C. Audit costs

Total administrative, investment and audit costs

Firstly, in promoting investment in industries with greater potential for learning, scale economies and productivity growth, the policies served to raise the average rate of return on investment, and hence total profits, thereby stimulating capital accumulation.

As a result, under investment may occur even if the investment in the field concerned is socially desirable, i.e. the social rate of return on investment exceeds the private rate of return.

The total investment target for 1996 was 64,000 million pesos.

The above involved a total investment of some 82.5 billion pesos.

The total investment in management reform measures recorded in 2004 was 3,386,366.

By June 2005, Chinese total direct investment in Africa had reached 1.025 billion.

(h) In connection with investment policy reviews, it is proposed to introduce four investment policy reviews, for a total allocation of 280,000.

First, local governments influence a large proportion of investment decisions. Second, investment in real estate development accounts for nearly one quarter of the total.

The total investment envisaged for the overall programme is estimated at more than 200 million.

On that day, six projects were centralized staring construction, with a total investment of 4.29 billion.

The Government's investment in the programme will total 3 million over the next three years.15

(d) Alternative investments offer the opportunity for an enhanced risk return profile for a pension investment portfolio.

Developing Asia Pacific countries have been the largest and fastest growing outward investors the total stock of outward foreign direct investment through 2003 amounted to 635 billion, which was three quarters of total outward foreign direct investment from all developing economies.

In 2003, the 31 landlocked developing countries received in total about 8 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) or 1.4 per cent of total world inward flows.

Over the past 20 years, the first component of the benchmark, the Morgan Stanley Capital International World Index, had achieved a total annualized return of 14.6 per cent compared to 14.1 per cent achieved by the Fund apos s total equities. The second component, the Salomon Brothers World Government Bond Index, had achieved a total annualized return of 9.9 per cent compared to a total annualized return of 10.9 per cent achieved by the Fund apos s bond portfolio.

The past 40 years have demonstrated the remarkable return on investment to be gained in collaborative scientific research.

The education of girls is particularly important as it yields the highest return on investment in developing countries.

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

Funding for this strategy increased almost four fold in 2004 2005, for a total investment of  40 million.

The results showed that 150,660 out of a total of 300,000 refugees were willing to return to Eritrea.

Some laws require a minimum rate of equity investment, as a percentage of the total investment cost, or establish a ceiling for the availability of public funds to the project.

Companies such as Airbus S.A.S. and French oil giant Total have cancelled billions of dollars in investment in Iran.

Data for 1996 2002 refer to total direct investment abroad (D3), which are D2 plus loans granted to affiliates.

SMEs active in foreign investment increased from 16 of total SMEs in 2000 to 37.6 in 2002 (OECD 2004).

At the end of July 1997, a total of 545 families comprising 1,439 persons had received certificates for return.

Most of the financial return on investment has been realized in the areas of meetings planning, publishing and text processing.

That improvement includes a substantial contribution by investment in job creation, which will have accounted for 25.4 per cent of total investment, compared to 23.5 per cent during the Seventh Plan.

Domestic investment projects in East Timor which were approved by the Government in 1996 comprise 12 projects with a total investment value of Rp. 270,715 billion or about US 142 million.

International investors rank future investment opportunities in Africa far lower than elsewhere (see figure 2), even though actual rates of return on existing investments in Africa compare more favourably to those in other regions.For evidence on rates of return see UNCTAD, Foreign Direct Investment in Africa, Current Studies, Series.

The cumulative total of all known cases brought under bilateral, regional (e.g. NAFTA) or plurilateral (e.g. Energy Charter Treaty) agreements that contain investment clauses, or international investment agreements (IIAs), is now 160.

The good news is that growing discipline seems to be pushing out low return investment. And there is every reason to believe that investment will remain high as the economy s capital base expands.

Portfolio flows and foreign direct investment (FDI) posted the strongest growth, accounting for more than two thirds of total private inflows.

Until 2003, the Government's investment in education had amounted to Dirham 5.5 billion or 25.6 percent of total federal government spending.

Whereas the average return on FDI in China was 33 for American firms in 2008, the average return on China s investment in US government securities was a mere 3 4 . So, why does China invest its savings so heavily in low return US government securities, rather than in high return domestic projects?

The personalized stamp project has proved to be popular with visitors and has generated considerable revenue in return for a modest investment.

For the project sponsors it is important to have a return on their investment commensurate with the amount of risk they assume.

The proposed investment plan for 2005 2007, which is currently under preparation, will provide for a growth of the total UNCDF investment portfolio from 125 million in 2005 to more than 200 million in 2007 and an increase in total LDC coverage from 28 LDCs in 2005 to 35 in 2007.

33. The resulting fall in total investment, especially private investment, led from the mid 1970s onwards to a restriction in the expansion of modern productive activity, which could not continue to create sufficient employment.

While China has attracted a large amount of foreign direct investment, it has bought an even larger amount of US government securities. Whereas the average return on FDI in China was 33 for American firms in 2008, the average return on China s investment in US government securities was a mere 3 4 .

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