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We need an immediate contingency plan:
invest
to finance job training, improve educational opportunities, and, crucially, create incentives for employers to hire young people.
So, too, would legislation to allow full ownership of enterprises by foreigners and the proper protection of their property rights – which would have the added benefit of encouraging expatriates to save and
invest
locally.
Northern Europeans with money to
invest
were willing to lend on extraordinarily easy terms to those in the south who wanted to spend, and ample pre-2007 spending made employers there willing to raise wages rapidly.
They need not only to
invest
the proceeds in the right type of high-return projects, but also to ensure that they do not have to borrow further to service their debt.
As for Rakuten, while we will continue to
invest
heavily in our US headquarters, we are also investing in growth at home, in order to lure more foreign talent to an open and Internet-savvy Japan – one that, in some ways, is moving in the opposite direction of the US.
It can begin by creating greater opportunities for US firms – including from the nuclear industry – to
invest
in India’s economic success.
And a final trend is the gradual erosion of property rights, which has left Russian businessmen unwilling to
invest
in the country.
This year’s Davos meeting will offer a glimpse of where the next life-, planet- and economy-saving discoveries and products will come from, and where we should
invest
our talents and treasure to fuel the next generation of transformative technologies.
Societies that discover how to use the education and talent of half their populations, while allowing women and their partners to
invest
in their families, will have a competitive edge in the global knowledge/innovation economy.
The price must be high enough to achieve ambitious environmental goals, in alignment with national circumstances, and it must be stable, in order to encourage businesses and households to
invest
in clean technologies.
The World Bank Group is supporting countries and businesses as they develop climate-friendly public policies,
invest
in carbon markets, and explore financial innovations to ease into low-carbon transitions.
As one of the WikiLeaks documents revealed, American diplomats lobbied the Libyan government during the financial crisis to keep funds in US banks, and to
invest
directly in a troubled US financial institution.
Tax avoidance by multinational companies is draining developing-country incomes, limiting their ability to
invest
in education and infrastructure.
For example, Citigroup created so-called “special-purpose vehicles” to
invest
in mortgage-related securities prior to 2007.
Overgenerous social-welfare payments create disincentives to work, hire, invest, and grow.
And governments could take in an additional $110 billion every year – to
invest
in growth-enhancing public goods like education – because digital channels make tax collection cheaper and more reliable.
Families
invest
in private education because they fear that the public education system will not get their children into elite universities and good jobs.
It can also provide an opportunity for Europeans to demonstrate again to the US their willingness to
invest
in self-defense capabilities, and to play an active role in a process that, until now, has been conducted largely over their heads, by the US and Russia.
The two companies
invest
in start-ups together – not in California, like Google, but in emerging markets.
While individual investors cannot be expected to
invest
in lobbying for stronger investor protection, it might be hoped that institutional investors – mutual funds, banks, insurance companies, and so forth – will do so.
Institutional investors receive funds from individuals and
invest
them in publicly traded companies.
Because institutional investors
invest
substantial amounts in such companies, they should be well informed about corporate governance issues.
This reduces the willingness of institutional investors to
invest
in counteracting insider lobbying.
Another line of reasoning is that businesses that depend heavily on continuity – for example, hospitals, outsourcing firms in India, and stock exchanges – will
invest
in their own backup systems.
Similar losses at the Kuwait Stock Exchange prompted the Kuwait Investment Authority to
invest
$5.4 billion in a new fund meant to provide liquidity to the local market, and to purchase a 24% stake in Gulf Bank for $1.5 billion.
In times of crisis, SWFs not only
invest
a smaller proportion of their portfolios abroad and divest from some foreign holdings, but the total value of their investments tends to shrink as well.
SWFs tend to
invest
in foreign markets more when times are good and security prices are more likely to be inflated, and to divest during market downturns, when divestment offer implies lower-than-fundamental-value security prices.
This has led energy-intensive European industries – including producers of glass, steel, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals – to
invest
heavily in the US.
Partner countries must be ready to
invest
in their institutions and develop their own vision of how they want to organize their welfare systems.
The private sector’s growth is hemmed in by its inability to
invest
in economic sectors that the government still monopolizes.
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