In its latest World Economic Outlook, the IMF identifies four reasons: China's exchange rate, its terms of trade, global spending and China's own investment expenditure.
However, current capital-expenditure investment may not be sufficient to increase production levels in coming years, she said.
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We believe that increased investment and marketing expenditure in these markets along with concentrated efforts to build emerging market brands such as Complan (India) and Quero (Brazil) will enable the company to maintain impressive growth rates in these markets going forward.
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Consumption and investment are part of the expenditure stream while profits are part of the income stream.
Ministers, she said, envisaged an easy leap to autonomy - making Scotland like "Namibia or Togo", she said - while they were apparently unable to divert productive expenditure to capital investment in schools.
"We are in a good position to reduce capital expenditure, targeting investment at business areas that deliver sustainable returns while maintaining flexibility in forward fleet commitments, " Alan Joyce, chief executive of Qantas said in a statement.
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Capital expenditure (excluding spectrum investment) of EUR 9.8 billion is scheduled for 2013 compared with an expected total of EUR 8.3 billion in the current year.
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In March, some road maintenance expenditure will be reclassified as investment rather than current spending.
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As for this year's capital expenditure, the size of investment is expected to be similar to that of 2012's.
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Small firms account for only a small proportion of the economy and a correspondingly small proportion of investment and of research-and-development expenditure.
The government's capital expenditure plans, packaged as the Investment Strategy, have largely been maintained but not on a scale that could compensate for the fall in house building.
Investment has picked up despite the strengthening of the yen over the past several years, but capital expenditure is unlikely to be maintained unless the yen begins to weaken.
Even with the daily protestations that marketing is an investment and not a cost, in deference CMOs know their media budget is second or third on the capital expenditure list, and disconsolate CFOs are struggling to bring down overhead.
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