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economic and investment
The goal is to enlist all available economic resources in the industrialized Free World, especially private investment capital.
This sum spent for foreign economic aid, the peace corps, food for peace, or any other program to solve the problems of the underdeveloped countries would be an investment that would pay off in world peace, increased world trade, and prosperity for every country on the globe.
As " cultural investors ," publishers rely on the editor position to identify a good investment in " cultural capital " which may grow to yield economic capital across all positions.
A large injection of external investment from both private and public sources has alleviated the economic difficulties of the early 1990s caused by global recession and persistently low commodity prices ( although the latter continues to affect the economy ).
Low productivity and competitiveness on the European and world markets alike due to inadequate R & D funding and a lack of a clearly defined development policy remain a significant obstacle for foreign investment and economic growth.
Successful foreign direct investment and successive governments have demonstrated a commitment to economic reforms and responsible fiscal planning have contributed greatly to the Bulgarian economy, with a historical growth rate average of 6 % a year.
The investment and economic output of all of these types of applied biotechnologies is termed as bioeconomy.
In 2006, the primary economic concerns focused on: high national debt ($ 9 trillion ), high non-bank corporate debt ($ 9 trillion ), high mortgage debt ($ 9 trillion ), high financial institution debt ($ 12 trillion ), high unfunded Medicare liability ($ 30 trillion ), high unfunded Social Security liability ($ 12 trillion ), high external debt ( amount owed to foreign lenders ) and a serious deterioration in the United States net international investment position ( NIIP ) (- 24 % of GDP ), high trade deficits, and a rise in illegal immigration.
The Cayman Island Investment Bureau, a government agency, has been established with the mandate of promoting investment and economic development in the territory.
An economic depression that had begun in 1967 peaked in 1972, exacerbated by capital flight, plummeting private investment, and withdrawal of bank deposits in response to Allende's socialist program.
Beyond its general economic and political stability, the government has also encouraged the use of Chile as an " investment platform " for multinational corporations planning to operate in the region, but this will have limited value given the developing business climate in Chile itself.
Further minimizing reliance on a single major partner, successive Czech governments have welcomed U. S. investment ( amongst others ) as a counterbalance to the strong economic influence of Western European partners, especially of their powerful neighbour, Germany.
A planned economy is an economic system in which decisions regarding production and investment are embodied in a plan formulated by a central authority, usually by a government agency.
The justification for central planning is that the consolidation of economic resources can allow for the economy to take advantage of more perfect information when making decisions regarding investment and production.
Consumer demand can be restrained in favor of greater capital investment for economic development in a desired pattern.
Poor infrastructure, an uncertain legal framework, corruption, and lack of openness in government economic policy and financial operations remain a brake on investment and growth.
The OCP will double Ecuador's oil transport capacity, but Ecuador will need to attract additional foreign investment to realize the full economic potential of the added capacity.
The United States and Ecuador have maintained close ties based on mutual interests in maintaining democratic institutions ; combating cannabis and cocaine ; building trade, investment, and financial ties ; cooperating in fostering Ecuador's economic development ; and participating in inter-American organizations.
Under comprehensive economic reforms initiated in 1991, Egypt has relaxed many price controls, reduced subsidies, reduced inflation, cut taxes, and partially liberalized trade and investment.
The United States and Ecuador have maintained close ties based on mutual interests in maintaining democratic institutions ; combating cannabis and cocaine ; building trade, investment, and financial ties ; cooperating in fostering Ecuador's economic development ; and participating in inter-American organizations.
In 1932, Hayek suggested that private investment in the public markets was a better road to wealth and economic coordination in Britain than government spending programs, as argued in a letter he co-signed with Lionel Robbins and others in an exchange of letters with John Maynard Keynes in The Times.
In order to reverse the steady economic decline under Touré's rule, the CMRN reorganized the judicial system, decentralized the administration, promoted private enterprise, and encouraged foreign investment
The government revised the private investment code in 1998 to stimulate economic activity in the spirit of a free enterprise.
The United States also welcomed the Hoyte government's economic reform and efforts, which stimulated investment and growth.
Technology flourished ; there was investment in economic infrastructure, such as irrigation systems and canals ; and the importance of reading the Qur ' an produced a comparatively high level of literacy in the general populace.

economic and arena
His greatest achievement, surpassing many of these, was, perhaps, the establishment of a political and economic consensus about the governance of Britain that all parties, whether Labour, Conservative or Liberal subscribed to for three decades, fixing the arena of political discourse until the later 1970s.
The government nonetheless faces serious challenges in the economic arena.
Their campaigns stretch beyond the traditional arena of the conservation movement and seek to address the economic and development aspects of sustainability.
This is in direct contrast to the European Union, whose member States have given up their national sovereignty in exchange for cooperative mediation and group policy-making, especially in the economic arena.
Essentially apolitical, the Guild is primarily concerned with the flow of commerce and preservation of the economy that supports them ; though their ability to dictate the terms of and fees for all transport gives them influence in the political arena, they do not pursue political goals beyond their economic ones.
All these measures restored confidence in the domestic banking and monetary sector, contributing to the economic reinvigoration of the country and to the improvement of the reputation of the Estonian state in the international arena.
In its political relations with the Samoan people, Solf ’ s government showed similar qualities of intelligence and care as in the economic arena.
He generally supported business interests in the arena of economic policy and swiftly rose to become a power to be reckoned with on the Senate Finance Committee.
According to biographer Robert D. Sampson, O ' Sullivan was " far in advance of his colleagues on such issues as religious toleration, humane approaches to punishment and incarceration, sexual equality in the legal arena, and economic justice.
# Bracketing of inequalities: Fraser makes us recall that " the bourgeois conception of the public sphere requires bracketing inequalities of status ": The " public sphere was to be an arena in which interlocutors would set aside such characteristics as difference in birth and fortune and speak to one another as if they were social and economic peers ".
Delaware North was awarded the rights to construct the new arena, but poor economic conditions delayed the project.
It is the most important maritime arena, including most coastal traffic and territorial waters, in which are found the great majority of a nation ’ s maritime police, customs, environmental, and economic concerns.
Many other clubs have built new arenas copying the model Elfsborg set up, trying to own their arena which gives big economic resources.
* 1951-Following the 1950s postwar reconstruction and economic boom in Germany, Krups moved into the lucrative consumer appliance arena.
The Commission was widely hailed as a leader in the arena of state-sponsored economic development initiatives in the aerospace industry, and led to the establishment of the Spaceport Florida Authority, following the release of its formal report, " Steps to the Stars " in 1988 ( drafted under the direction of the Florida Department of Commerce's Dr. Chris Shove ).
Combe moved into the economic arena with his pamphlet on The Currency Question ( 1858 ).
The United Nations has achieved considerable prominence in the social arena, fostering human rights, economic development, decolonization, health and education, for example, and interesting itself in refugees and trade.
The owners of Sheffield Arena as well as Clive Betts, the MP for Sheffield Attercliffe, have expressed opposition over Yorkshire Forward's funding of Leeds Arena which they see will cause considerable economic damage to Sheffield Arena, East Sheffield and Sheffield / South Yorkshire itself, Yorkshire Forward have dismissed these claims and state that the arena will bring economic growth not only to Leeds and West Yorkshire but to the entire region.
In response to outrage from Sheffield, the government has put plans to fund the arena on hold while they conduct an economic risk assessment.
Another was that in an era where a widely spoken language like French was threatened with becoming irrelevant in the global arena, especially in economic, technical and scientific contexts, officially supporting regional languages was a mere waste of government resources.
The gradual expansion in the scope and authority of caste regulations shifted political and economic power to the local arena, reversing the trend of centralization.
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems-the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
The maritime Continental Blockade, implemented by Napoleon's opponents and very effectively enforced by the Royal Navy, gradually cut into any economic arena in which the French economy was not self-sufficient.

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