The investors have to realize that producing a movie requires a big, upfront investment, instead of a gradual one".
For the first time, an American president comes to Africa to preach trade and investment instead of aid.
The result has been a shift by many international economists toward encouraging China to address internal imbalances like its heavy reliance on investment instead of consumer spending.
He has since stopped lying to gullible U.N. inspectors and -- in return for U.S. investment instead of invasion -- promises civilized behavior.
It will take a resumption of business investment, instead of the usual burst of pent-up consumer demand, to drive this recovery.
Investors who held a stock for between one month and a year would pay a 10% to encourage long-term investment instead of the short selling of stocks.
Its politics, though, have recently been dominated by officials who have been accused of enriching themselves by reaping the benefits of Chinese investment instead of using it to help the poor.
These analyses used benefit-cost analysis, which is a way of comparing the amount of "good" that society gets from one investment instead of another, and expressing environmental, social and economic benefits in a single figure.
