Treasury officials have long argued that there aren't enough "shovel-ready" investment projects out there.
All they know is that low oil prices make potential investment projects more profitable.
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As companies battle with high interest charges and paralysed investment projects, businessmen are showing signs of strain.
Unfortunately, wasteful investment projects are not yet the worst-case scenario of this system.
That has prompted Beijing to focus more on growth, easing monetary policy and approving a number of investment projects.
These firms in turn favour capital-intensive investment projects, which add more to the output figures than to the payrolls.
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One western financier recalls wearily his taste for grandiose but impractical investment projects.
They are not finding their way to investment projects in emerging markets and are tending instead to inflate asset prices.
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Although low interest rates make investment projects affordable now, rising government debt may lead to higher interest rates in the future.
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All but a few foreign investment projects in the North are unprofitable.
Expanding credit to investment projects that struggle to show a profit in the medium term is a cause for concern for China investors.
For 2013, we look for new investment projects, robust consumption and stabilizing exports to sustain growth at its potential level of around 8 percent.
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Mr Jones called for capital investment projects, more help for small businesses and for government spending to be used "more wisely" to encourage job creation.
In Asia, China's Shanghai Composite Index climbed 1.4% as hopes of increased government spending on a wide range of investment projects lifted coal and construction companies.
With just 5% of the UK population, Wales attracted 22% of inward investment projects during 1979 to 1990 and the creation in consequence of 75, 000 jobs.
But Caixin Weekly, a Beijing magazine, reports that provinces still vie with one another to boost their GDP figures with the help of big investment projects.
Indeed, when asked what he has learned about his country during eight years as president, Lula speaks of the difficulties of getting things done, especially public-investment projects.
In a micro version of the public investment projects planned by governments throughout the world, Tuxpan council intends to implement several schemes to stimulate the local economy.
"This is one of the largest inward investment projects in Europe and we can all be proud that this scheme is being created here in Rhondda Cynon Taf, " he said.
They also enjoyed a veto over large-scale county investment projects.
Spanish tennis great Rafael Nadal is expected to play at the Acapulco Open later this month, and Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim recently promised a series of new investment projects.
Robert Bergqvist of SEB, a Swedish bank, says that several Swedish corporate customers have put investment projects on hold because they don't know how the euro crisis will unfold.
The entrepreneurs then embark on ambitious, long-gestation investment projects, only to discover that the men and materials they require are otherwise engaged in the production of more immediate gratifications.
Mr Sacenco says that government agencies like his are beginning to learn from their mistakes, and are now encouraging more investment projects that take into account the region's natural advantages.
I've asked the Welsh Liberal Democrats for details of the other Welsh rail investment projects Mr Clegg said his Government had announced - I'll publish them here when I get them.
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One reason for the investment shortfall may be that government lacks the ability to manage big investment projects, following sharp cutbacks in the senior ranks of the civil service in the mid-1990s.
Other moves, such as allowing English councils to retain business rate revenues and borrow money against future income generated from capital investment projects, represented "quite a dramatic loosening of the leash" of central government, he insisted.
The researchers concluded that it costs companies more to compensate risk-averse CEOs because the companies have to pay more in salary and go the extra mile to encourage their chiefs to take on expensive investment projects that have more risk.
There are around 80, 000 workers in Foxconn by May this year, about one fifth of the total number of new jobs created by major investment projects in Chengdu last year, according to statistics from Chengdu Human Resources and Social Security Bureau.
The government is taking measures to stabilize growth by pushing for more investment projects, reducing tax burdens and allowing private sector investment in strategic industries as China tries moving away from being a low-cost manufacturing hub dependent on the ever-declining growth of the developed world.
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