President François Bozizé on Tuesday urged rebels threatening to enter the capital to lay down their arms and let him complete the last three years of his term.
Ade Daramy Invest outside the capital: To lay the groundwork for economic diversification, we need to capitalise on opportunities provided by large private and public investments in the interior of the country.
The resumption of intensive airstrikes by Bashar al-Assad's regime and its Russian allies followed several days of relative calm in which the government reiterated its demands for rebels in the eastern districts of Syria's commercial capital to lay down their arms and abandon the city, and for civilians to flee to the regime-held western half.
Last week, the government called diplomats to the new capital, Naypyidaw, to lay out the results of all these interrogations.
US business firms enjoy greater flexibility than their counterparts in Western Europe and Japan in decisions to expand capital plant, to lay off surplus workers, and to develop new products.
Last August, a wave of risk aversion in the advent of Y2K prompted capital market participants to lay off risk, mainly by selling interest-rate swaps.
But they will take time to prove their worth at preventing future abuses and restoring confidence in capital markets—and, indeed, to lay bare any unintended consequences.
Thanks to what, in hindsight, has proven disastrously lax regulation, banks did not then have to lay aside capital in case something went wrong.
"You don't have to lay out capital; the infrastructure is set up; you can lock the door and not worry".
Campello et al. (2010) argue that firms with tight credit constraints inevitably plan deeper retrenchments regarding technology and capital investments, and are forced to lay off more staff, leading to an inability to achieve long-term profitability after the immediate distress situation.
