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A ban on battery cages in the EU was eventually adopted in 1999, but, to ensure that producers would have plenty of time to phase out the equipment in which they had invested, its implementation was delayed until January 1, 2012.
So far, however, institutional investors have invested relatively little in infrastructure, partly owing to shortcomings in the overall investment environment.
Firms that predicted a continuing boom – and therefore invested in expanding production and increased their workforce – were left with excess capacity relative to actual demand.
So we invested in education and science, and today we have the world’s highest percentage of scientists and patents per capita.
They have invested too much political capital in their failed policies to attempt to reverse course.
Roughly 60% of Chinese exports represent shipments of “foreign invested enterprises” – in effect, Chinese subsidiaries of global multinationals.
a third-party service that offers paid support from former employees and other experts in a non-e-mail version of this idea, and invested in Boxbe, which started out with sender-pays e-mail but eventually pivoted.
Of the estimated €1.73 billion ($2 billion) that is needed annually for research and development, only €589 million was invested in 2013.
They underestimated the ties among its members, how much they had collectively invested, and their willingness to come together to solve common problems when it mattered most.
This is why Europe’s mayors call upon European institutions to focus on social cohesion with the same commitment that has been invested until now in asylum and border controls.
Today, the Chinese themselves realize that their surpluses fetch miniscule returns when invested in US Treasuries.
Low Japanese rates led to a “search for yield” by Japanese investors who increasingly invested their savings in foreign currencies, where they received higher interest rates: the famous “FX carry trade.”
If the yen were to appreciate against the currency where the money was invested, it would be possible to get a lower return than simply keeping the money in a Japanese bank account.
Conversely, improving the investment climate is likely to increase the share of remittances invested into businesses.
In the short run, declining oil prices create grave challenges for those who, having invested in expanding production when prices were high, now face large costs and failing businesses.
It is not just a matter of money – India’s central bank is rolling in cash, which it has mainly invested in low-yield foreign treasury bills.
Moreover, Western European companies have invested on a previously unimaginable scale.
China’s Stock-Market Red HerringROME – With the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index down more than 40% since last June, investors worldwide are watching the decline with growing concern – but not because they are invested in the plummeting market (China’s stocks are overwhelmingly held by Chinese).
Countries whose services sectors have made a large contribution to productivity growth have invested significantly in intangible capital, pointing the way to success in boosting innovation.
Similarly, British Petroleum, which has invested more in Russia than any other company to date, has recently discovered that its rights to the Kovytkino gas field are not guaranteed at all.
While Russia itself will not freeze accounts, President Putin's meaning was clear: it would be better for all sides if this money were brought home and invested in the national economy.
The fact that ample corporate profits were not being invested seemed to support this hypothesis, which also took root outside the US.
The countries that are unraveling the liberal order today are those that invested the most political capital in creating it.
On September 16, 2008, a few days after the run on the US bank Washington Mutual began and the day after the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy was announced, a major United States money market fund, Reserve Primary Fund, which had invested in Lehman debt, was in serious trouble.
They could point to the precedent set by Hamilton, and had probably invested on the implicit understanding that, if necessary, the federal government would bail out the states again.
Only decisive progress on these fronts will unlock the trillions of corporate dollars that, rather than being invested in new plants and equipment, remain stranded on companies’ balance sheets or are handed over to shareholders via higher dividends and share buybacks.
According to a recent RAND study, the United States’ funding for disaster loss-reduction research in 2003 amounted to about $127 million – only 7% of the amount invested in climate-change research for that year.
During the 2004 hurricane season, the Dominican Republic, which has invested in hurricane shelters and emergency evacuation networks, suffered fewer than ten deaths.
And the economic payoff would be enormous: every dollar invested in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to achieve this grand convergence would return $9-20.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has invested considerable political capital in the revival of peace negotiations, and Israel can use that to its advantage as well.
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