0 the act of putting money, effort, time, etc. into something to make a profit or get an advantage, or the money, effort, time, etc. used to do this: --
1 the act of putting money or effort into something to make a profit or achieve a result: --
2 the act of putting money into a business to buy new stock, machines, etc., or a sum of money that is invested in a business in this way: --
3 the act of buying shares, bonds, property, etc. in order to make a profit: --
4 something such as shares, bonds, or property that you buy in order to make a profit: --
Until then heavy capital investment in scientific research had been mainly limited to state-corporate sponsorship of chemistry, where the practical dividends were very apparent.
As pointed out earlier, higher priority may be given to directing commercial credit to non-environmental investments.
It is, of course, difficult to predict how these and future changes in the investment opportunity set will influence surplus distribution in the future.
It is only reasonable to require an investment to yield a return at least as high as that on the alternative use of funds.
Most of the women were casual workers working, typically, with low capital investment in tools and technology.
Apparently, these types of pension funds are able to manage their investment more efficiently than the other categories : industry funds have lower costs.
External benefits and costs that may be related to such investments are ignored since rational farmers are unlikely to be concerned about off-site effects.
But investment in human rights is not only a moral and quasi-legal salvation from things that are still going depressingly wrong.
