investment

Examples of investment in the following topics:

• Industrialized Countries

  • HDI considers these factors, but also accounts for how income is invested in healthcare, education, and other infrastructure.
  • Human Development Index (HDI) is a measure of how much of a nation's wealth is invested into local services such as education and infrastructure.
  • Countries with low HDI tend to be caught in a national cycle of poverty -- they have little wealth to invest, but the lack of investment perpetuates their poverty.
  • Because nations have varying levels of wealth, income, and investment in infrastructure, individual populations experience inequality.

• Thinking Globally

  • Consider China's current investments in Africa, which many observers have characterized as neocolonial.
  • Chinese companies have invested in Africa, building infrastructure, hiring workers, and obtaining rights to extract oil and minerals.
  • On the one hand, these investments could be considered free market trade: after all, China has paid for labor and mining rights.
  • On the other hand, these investments can be seen as a relationship of domination.
  • In that sense, African countries are dependent on outside investment.

• Property

  • An example of private property stimulating economic growth is when a homeowner makes home improvements to increase the value of their home, when in a similar situation a tenant in a government-owned building would not invest money in home improvements.
  • An example of private property stimulating economic growth is when a homeowner makes home improvements to increase the value of their home, when in a similar situation a tenant in a government owned building would not invest money in home improvements.

• Industrial Work

  • Building new industrial machines required enormous investments.
  • To be able to afford these investments, production had to take place on a larger scale.

• Wealth

  • One way that many wealthy individuals increase their wealth is by investing in the stock market.
  • To invest, individuals need to have sufficient assets to buy stock shares.

• Income

  • Salary alone only measures the income from a person's occupation, while total personal income accounts for investments, inheritance, real estate gains, and other sources of wealth.
  • Personal income is an individual's total earnings from wages, investment interest, and other sources.

• Urban Gentrification

  • When the number of urban pioneers reaches such a critical mass, it attracts business investment and new amenities such as bars, restaurants, and art galleries.
  • Renewed business attracts more investment capital and new residents, increasing local property values.
  • It may be the result of fluctuating relationships between capital investments and the production of urban space.
  • During the two decades following World War II, low rents in the city's periphery encouraged suburban development; as capital investment moved to suburbs, inner-city property values fell.

• Poverty

  • Human Development Index (HDI) is a measure of how much of a nation's wealth is invested into local services such as education and infrastructure.
  • Countries with low HDI tend to be caught in a national cycle of poverty -- they have little wealth to invest, but the lack of investment perpetuates their poverty.

• Disinvestment and Deindustrialization

  • American companies are still involved in the financial aspects of the company; the company remains an American property or American financiers invest through foreign direct investment in companies based abroad.

• Colonialism and Neocolonialism

  • The United States is an example of a core country, with immense capital and relatively high wage labor; Mexico is a semiperipheral country, where the economy has grown rapidly and there is significant technology manufacturing, but where most capital still comes from foreign nations; Liberia is an example of a peripheral country, where virtually all investment is foreign and many wage laborers earn less than $1/day.
  • The search for raw materials and new investment opportunities is the result of inter-capitalist rivalry for capital accumulation.