For instance, the G20 launched an SME Finance Challenge aimed at providing both investment and grant support to innovative organizations that support small firms.
But many ICSID claims involve investment treaties, which grant governments exceptions for broad interests such as public health or the environment.
This additional investment would make new grant and loan funding available for states and localities across the country, giving them both a new source of financing and the flexibility to design projects and financing packages to meet their needs.
For example, the Department of Commerce and the Economic Development Administration have implemented a set of policy priorities to help focus investment funding as part of the competitive grant process.
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To date, the Ministry of Commerce has yet to grant a single round-trip investment approval under the 2006 rules.
The indisputable fact that the investment is a minority equity position that would grant Anshan absolutely no control was conveniently left out of the letter sent to Secretary Geithner.
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Skills Minister Matthew Hancock said of the Enhanced Renewal Grant that it was to "ensure" investment in "first rate facilities".
"It's not the case that there's a science grant that gets split into military and civilian investment, " Mr Khan said.
Some Cuban economists expect that in the coming months the government will grant more scope for family businesses and foreign investment, and allow state companies more autonomy.
Even more solar and other renewable energy facilities came online with help from the cash grant program, creating jobs and spurring financial investment at a critical juncture in the recession.
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"A lot of large institutions are selling European sovereign debt and the corresponding CDSs because they don't feel like they have adequate insurance, " says Mark Grant, of Southwest Securities, a Texas-based investment firm.
The investment has been supported by the Welsh Assembly Government with a regional selective assistance grant and also by the Welsh Development Agency (WDA).
For anyone who saves and invests more than others will see that savings and investment expropriated, and anyone who saves and invests less than others will be rewarded with a grant from the government to make their savings equal to all others.
Unfortunately, as things stand now, the only impediments to the early transfer of a true national asset to a potentially problematic foreign owner are two, all-too-often pro forma bureaucratic exercises: the grant of a Federal Communications Commission license to transfer ownership and a possible Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) review.
Since last autumn, according to CSFB, an investment bank, investment-grade bonds have returned 16.4% and junk bonds 35% (as James Grant, the editor of an eponymous newsletter, has pointed out, you can't call them high-yield any more).
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