Sentences with phrase «of productive assets»

The tool allows national stakeholders and policymakers to experience first - hand the challenges that smallholder farmers face when dealing with scarce availability of productive assets and deteriorating climate conditions.

The evidence illustrates loss and damage around barriers and limits to adaptation: growing food and livelihood insecurity, unreliable water supplies, deteriorating human welfare and increasing manifestation of erosive coping measures (e.g. eating less, distress sale of productive assets to buy food, reducing the years of schooling for children, etc.).

growing food and livelihood insecurity, unreliable water supplies, deteriorating human welfare and increasing manifestation of erosive coping measures (e.g. eating less, distress sale of productive assets to buy food, reducing the years of schooling for children, etc.).

Any «distress sale of productive assets to buy food» in these countries may be due to diverting the raising of food grains to ethanol.

I would describe capacity building as improving human capital rather than changing social capital although capacity building could be argued to be the building of any productive assets of a person which would include some aspects of social capital.

Our country's founding fathers noted that broad - based ownership of productive assets is essential to a working democracy.»

The approach combines the transfer of a productive asset with consumption support, training, and coaching plus savings encouragement and health education and / or services.

After all, if everyone had perfect foresight, there would be no ambiguity about the value of any productive asset.

Not exact matches

If Chinese investment is on the whole productive, and the value of assets is growing as fast as the value of debt, then we can assume that current growth rates are not driven mainly by excessive debt and that Chinese growth is sustainable without the need to bring down investment growth.

BCI seeks investment opportunities around the world and across a range of asset classes that convert savings into productive capital.

2008 global financial crisis, world HNW and MC's, flooded back into US, driving USD strength, flatlined global economy, decelrating trade, collapse of commodity values, reduction in opportunity horizon of Manufacturing and Productive EM, along with debt dynamics in China accelerating (Money Printing, Asset Bloat) and staid developed world horizons and Equity bloat in US.

The focus on EVA helps ensure executives continue to be good stewards of capital and as SMP states, «EVA recognizes the productive use of capital assets and, therefore, wise, responsible decision - making regarding capital investments.»

«Leaving the question of price aside, the best business to own is one that over an extended period can employ large amounts of free — other peoples money — in highly productive assets so that return on owners capital becomes exceptional.»

Whenever capital assets reach the end of their productive lives, they should be replaced with energy efficient and low - carbon alternatives wherever possible and prudent.

Invest in productive assets, diversify your income streams and put your money to work for you instead of the other way around.

But now what starts to happen is you really get stagnant and falling standards of living because savings, which are typically in a capitalist system, invested into productive assets is what in fact improves your standard of living.

Their Colorado assets are among the most productive in U.S. onshore drilling, showing some of the best full cycle cash - on - cash returns in the E&P industry.

A business is a productive asset — like a machine, or a farm (or in terms of the property example, a rental property).

Environmental water is a highly practical way of protecting and restoring valuable environmental assets that exist in a highly productive irrigated agriculture and urban and rural communities.

While I'm fond of making fun of the Dee Gordon trade, he's a serious asset if he does exactly what he did last year, and there's enough talent in the lineup to have a hitter like Marcell Ozuna hitting sixth, which is where he should be in a productive lineup.

The usual productive fervor of their manager, which is so often one of their greatest assets, for once cost the Borussians, leaving them with an uphill battle in what many are calling the Group of Death.

While a focus on the distribution of income is essential, republican economics is likely to draw attention to the underlying distribution of productive and financial assets and to the relations under which these assets are controlled and deployed.

Thus, in the UK today the majority of new money created for the purchase of existing land and housing — existing assets rather than new, productive assets that enable the economy to expand.

Bawumia at a lecture last Thursday among other things accused government of spending more money to refinance debts than it spent on productive assets.

But the spacecraft's resounding triumphs in that time and the indisputable logic of keeping such a productive asset at work helped us press the case for continuing Cassini's mission.

«The fundamental mission behind our Worldview enterprise is to foster a productive, meaningful dialogue on the ways in which nations can best leverage their assets for the betterment of their life science and biotechnology sectors» observes Jeremy Abbate, Director of Global Media Solutions, Scientific American.

One year after the end of the intervention, 36 months after the productive asset transfer, 8 out of 10 indices still showed statistically significant gains, and there was very little or no decline in the impact of the program on the key variables (consumption, household assets, and food security).

Shari Albright, former chief operating officer of the Asia Society's International Studies Schools Network, now the Norine R. Murchison Professor of Practice and Chair of the Department of Education at Trinity University, says finding community assets is often surprisingly productive.

The Foundation regards diversity as an asset for building a strong and productive society, and we are committed to building early childhood programs that value, support, and embrace the culture and diversity of young children's families and communities.

During many of the rough years for the S&P 500, other historically productive asset classes did fine.

The trouble with all of this is that we are bailing out less productive assets, and taxing more productive assets to do so.

Small - cap value stocks historically have been the most productive of all major U.S. asset classes.

Does that mean it's time to get rid of these two previously productive equity asset classes?

If we take money out of other very productive asset classes to put into gold, the portfolio return would likely decline.

The owner of the land collects rent from his productive asset.

This may well be keeping investors from making the most productive use of their assets.

For the average person, the easiest way to do this is by owning pieces of hundreds of businesses via a low - cost index fund, a productive asset that Buffett recommends for 99 percent of investors, including LeBron James on CNBC a couple of weeks ago.

Small - cap value stocks historically have been the most productive of all major U.S. asset classes, and they boost the compound return of Portfolio 4 to 10.3 %, enough to turn that initial $ 100,000 investment into just shy of $ 10.1 million.

The energy sector has a lot of MLP (master limited partnerships) with productive but depreciated assets, so it's perhaps not unreasonable that the depreciation is on the books?

This assumes that cash is not a productive asset - that earnings are a product of the other assets only.

Apply the P / B multiple to the productive assets and then add the value of the cash.

In reality the liquidation value of assets (even financial assets) is very different from their historical cost, or their market value, or the present value of their productive use.

Any valuation of a stock would therefor use P / E to value the productive assets and then add the cash balance per share on top.

The idea goes as follows: Would you rather have an emergency fund invested in cash (current yield maybe 1 %) and forego an expected equity expected return of, let's say, 7 % or keep your investments in productive assets and use debt to finance the occasional emergency?

I agree that we have no way of knowing the «perfect» asset allocation and that arguments about small optimizations in portfolio weights are not productive.

Invest in productive assets, diversify your income streams and put your money to work for you instead of the other way around.

Buying productive assets at attractive prices is the name of the game.

Economic growth provides resources for solving problems — restoring organic carbon in agricultural soils, conserving and restoring ecosystems, better sanitation and safer water, better health and education, updating the diesel fleet and other productive assets, replacing cooking fires with better ways of preparing food, etc..

Economic growth provides resources for solving problems — conserving and restoring ecosystems, better sanitation and safer water, better health and education, updating the diesel fleet and other productive assets to emit less black carbon, developing better and cheaper ways of producing electricity, replacing cooking fires with better ways of preparing food thus avoiding millions of deaths annually, etc..

It is a plan for community empowerment and for asset building and a global sharing of resources as investment to help empower the global poor to build the sustainable energy and productive infrastructure.