In the editorial to this issue, Herman van Hooff, Director of UNESCO Regional Office for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean, underscores the importance of museums and cultural centers as vectors of cultural values, knowledge and identities, and their contribution to investment, economic benefits and job generation.
The bill empowers each worker age 50 and below with the freedom to choose a contribution to a personal savings and investment account equal roughly to half of the employee share of the Social Security payroll tax.
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Bank of America, along with two of its big four rivals, also pointed to income from investment banking as a positive contribution to earnings.
Particularly at this time, a bold initiative to expand trade and investment could make a significant contribution to our strategy to strengthen growth and create jobs.
Given the diminished impact of running backs league-wide in recent years, the first round is an expensive place to make a risky investment on a position whose contribution to team performance has fallen in recent years.
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"Chancellor Merkel's coalition government has made an important contribution to the economic upswing by introducing investment programmes for energy-saving technologies, and measures to encourage small business investment, " said Gustav Horn, director of the Macroeconomic Policy Institute.
Mr. Ebersman told some bankers that he is skeptical over what contribution investment banks could make to a Facebook IPO, since the company is so highly sought after by major investors, said people familiar with the matter.
Nevertheless, the decision was made to offer company stock as an investment option in the define contribution plan and the percentage allocated to it, not surprising, mushroomed to imprudent levels.
The rising burden of defined-benefit schemes is forcing some firms to restrict them to existing staff and to put new recruits into new, defined-contribution schemes, thereby transferring to the employee the risk of low investment returns in the future.
Among the ideas Mr Miliband talked about were tax incentives for companies that make a contribution to the economy through training and long-term investment.
Defined contribution retirement plans, in addition to shifting responsibility for investment decision-making onto workers, almost always force workers into higher cost, poorer performing retail oriented investment options.
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Investment banks admit analysts' contribution is tricky to quantify and have got rid of a fair few in the past couple of years.
But really, you personally have no way of holding them accountable, and as such, you should look at your monetary contribution as a donation to a cause, not a true investment in the business.
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India and BRICS have captured the attention of world by the announcement of contribution and tried to woo investments by coining the idea of investment in infrastructure segment of developing world, without paying a penny.
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IDB make a bigger contribution to the region's balance of payments than foreign direct investment.
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But in spite of the big names that appear on candidates' contribution lists, the biggest contributors to the candidates are lawyers and investment professionals, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign finance date.
In addition, some workers might see a mandatory contribution to their personal unemployment-support account as a long-term investment, not as a tax.
If net trade exports less imports can make a decent contribution to GDP growth in 2011, that should encourage a recovery in business investment, which slumped by almost a fifth last year.
The last index we compute is donor dependency, which tries to measure how badly a charity needs your contribution--as opposed to money raised from selling products or tickets or reaping investment gains--to fund its current operations.
Evercore Partners analyst Kirk Materne this afternoon trimmed his EPS estimates for Microsoft for the next couple of quarters to reflect the current shortage of hard-disk drives that has resulted from the recent Thai floods, plus lower gross margin assumptions to reflect increased investment in services and online and a greater revenue contribution from the entertainment and devices segment.
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The proportion of private industry employees participating in 401(k)-style defined contribution plans rose from 36% in 1999 to 43% in 2008, according to Investment Company Institute data.
For example, a substantial contribution by an individual employed in the financial industry prior to, or immediately following, a portfolio investment decision by the charity may suggest an improper motive that should be investigated.
Republicans would love to see both Social Security and Medicare carved up and morph into defined-contribution systems, where, you guessed it, private companies would charge exorbitant fees to offer health care and investment management.
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In the past large defined contribution plans overseen by unsophisticated employees with other corporate duties, without an investment consultant or investment policy statement to guide them, utilizing well-known mutual fund families exclusively (without competitive bidding), failing to monitor best execution, revenue sharing, securities lending, custody arrangements and other issues, was the norm.
Final-salary schemes were closed to new members, who were switched into defined contribution (DC) schemes, in which employees bear the investment risk.
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