Example collocations logo

Investments in sentence

2359 examples of Investments in a sentence

Meanwhile, individual countries have increased their domestic investments, and international partners – big and small – have maintained their support, which is how we will reach the $26 billion needed for the global AIDS response in 2020.
And rapidly rising student debt – up from $400 billion to $1.3 trillion in the US alone since 2005 – may partly be financing more intense competition for high-paid jobs, not socially required investments in human capital.
And, even in electricity generation, emerging economies’ INDCs imply significant new investments in coal or gas capacity.
And, because coal- and gas-fired power stations last 50 years or more, such investments raise the risk of either locking in emission levels incompatible with the climate target, or forcing major asset write-offs.
Not only are these projects, which are slowly appearing elsewhere on the continent, more profitable than most financial market investments; they are also literally paving the way for future growth.
Developed countries have already offered to help implement the GMBM, which, it is hoped, will pave the way for investments in emerging economies that are becoming new aviation powerhouses.
The fact that so many problems persist despite tens of billions of dollars of assistance and years of effort is a sad reminder that aid can allow governments to undertake foolish investments that accomplish little, or can easily be siphoned off by corrupt officials.
Economists should recognize the limitations of cost-benefit analysis and offer a more rigorous method for analyzing the non-marginal, non-linear feedback mechanisms that affect major investments.
Even after various deductions, credits, and other tax breaks, the effective marginal rate – the rate that corporations pay on new US investments – remains one of the highest in the world.
Eliminating accelerated depreciation for equipment would raise the effective tax rate on new investments; repealing the domestic-production deduction would increase the effective tax rate on US manufacturing; and rescinding the R&D tax credit would reduce investment in innovation.
Such a change would reduce corporations’ incentives to move investments abroad or shift profits to low-tax jurisdictions, while increasing the progressivity of tax outcomes by shifting more of the burden of corporate taxation from labor to capital owners.
Reorienting investments and exports toward Eurasia offers an alternative.
The development of the road (actually several “belts,” including a southern maritime route) will require huge investments in transport and urban infrastructure.
The fixed-capital investments that have formed the basis of China’s growth model largely have benefited the entire economy; infrastructure improvements, for example, have enabled the rural poor to increase their productivity and incomes.
Democrats oppose vouchers and prefer major federal investments in order to improve the quality of public schools.
Even after Kia, South Korea's second largest automaker and the eighth largest chaebol, went bankrupt earlier this year because of overextended investments, Kim Young Sam's government balked at undertaking financial reforms to open and supervise the banking system.
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), for example, is now expected to become an almost $2 trillion investment vehicle, with holdings including SOEs and financial investments.
Middle Eastern and North African SWFs’ reluctance to engage in the governance of their portfolio investments abroad may be a legacy of the “investment protectionism” of the Santiago Principles days.
As some of largest public equity investors in the region, SWFs should be encouraged to take more responsibility for their investments.
Last year, the Copenhagen Consensus – an esteemed panel of economists including several Nobel Laureates – ranked child nutrition as the top priority on its list of cost-effective investments that would improve global welfare.
In many low-income countries, making these investments will require forging partnerships with foreign governments – and we welcome the vital role that donor programs, aid agencies, and volunteer organizations can play by working within the framework of national plans.
The investments needed to make this happen represent a fraction of most donor assistance to low- and middle-income countries, but would have a massive global impact on human development in the long term.
The private sector, in particular, has the capacity and expertise to contribute substantially to international development efforts, through investments, loans, and even philanthropic resources provided by transnational corporations, financial institutions, foundations, and other sources.
The Global Apollo Program would double these investments and coordinate the effort to bridge the technological gaps, bringing forward the day when we could eliminate coal and other carbon-intensive fuels.
Unfortunately, very little education funding is currently set aside for investments in new learning networks.
But in the long term, sustaining it will require far-sighted public policies and investments in hard and soft infrastructure to support the private sector’s high capacity for innovation.
Critics accuse Thaksin of conflicts of interest, as his family-owned telecommunications conglomerate holds sizeable investments in Myanmar.
If cities are to reduce their carbon footprint, they will need massive investments in their infrastructure.
Infrastructure investments are also necessary to cope with continued urbanization: by 2050, there could be as many people living in urban areas as are alive today.
Unlike banks, they have long-dated liabilities, for which the long-term, predictable returns from infrastructure investments can be a good match.
BackNext