Some of the areas which these "southern" nations look forward to improving further include joint investment in energy and oil, and a common bank.

Officials at the Mercantile Exchange said its share of the joint investment required to build the proposed complex was $200 million.

How about a continued joint investment in it?

In this case, there would still be "absolute security" with six joint investments rather than 12.

The seven parks will benefit from a joint investment of around £1.7million over 5 years.

All this is our joint investment in a venture of historic importance.

To achieve this capacity, the government has planned a joint investment worth US$100 billion in the oil and gas industry through 2015.

In 1982, the two European firms increased their stake from 40% to just over 50%, after make a joint investment of $15 million to $20 million.

Both groups seemed equally aware that they had a joint investment in making it work, for all its faults, as well as possible.

Bain and Blackstone have a track record of teaming up for joint investments.