Infrastructure
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Like the US after World War II, China is putting real money on the table – a lot of it – to build strong economic and
infrastructure
links with countries around the world.
A new Asian
Infrastructure
Investment Bank, to be based in Beijing, will help to fund
infrastructure
projects (roads, power, and rail, among others) throughout the region.
China’s economic rise can contribute to global wellbeing if its leaders emphasize investment in infrastructure, clean energy, public health, and other international priorities.
Governments typically have myriad ongoing expenditure commitments related to basic services such as national defense,
infrastructure
projects, education, and health care, not to mention to retirees.
While the US is likely to maintain the upper hand in terms of military power for at least another 15-20 years, asymmetric warfare could undercut America’s advantage should China engage in cyber-attacks on US electronic and satellite systems, along with attacks on
infrastructure.
The updated principles would maintain strategic communication and healthy bilateral relations; harness each other’s strengths and expand cooperation in infrastructure, investment, and other areas; deepen cultural ties and increase mutual understanding and friendship; expand coordination and collaboration in multilateral affairs to safeguard developing countries’ legitimate interests and address global challenges; and accommodate each other’s core concerns and reconcile bilateral disagreements amicably.
People also need access to community-level
infrastructure
like health clinics, schools, power grids, and sanitation systems.
To realize this potential, policymakers should eliminate arcane regulations that handcuff businesses; accelerate
infrastructure
projects; make the labor market more flexible; remove market distortions; and expand vocational training for the poor and uneducated.
Moreover, off-balance-sheet lending has helped to fuel over-investment in some sectors (especially infrastructure, iron and steel, energy, manufacturing, and real estate), leading to overcapacity and priming the economy for the emergence of bad-debt “disaster zones,” which would increase NPL ratios further.
Outdated and inefficient border procedures and inadequate
infrastructure
often mean high transaction costs, long delays, opportunities for corruption, and an additional 10-15% in the cost of getting goods to market – even more in landlocked countries.
It must enhance support for the private sector and prioritize infrastructure, in a broad sense, in accordance with its importance for individual initiative.
During its domestic
infrastructure
boom, China financed major projects – often connected to mining, energy, and
infrastructure
– in other emerging economies.
Based partly on my advice, they began investing tens of millions of dollars to improve health-care
infrastructure.
It can call on Europe to provide greater predictability of financial flows and alignment on climate and development objectives, especially to reduce inequality and poverty, boost clean energy, and build sustainable urban transport and other
infrastructure.
Rwanda’s government has already pledged $43 million to UGHE in land and
infrastructure
support.
This could take a number of forms: quantitative easing combined with fiscal expansion (for example, higher
infrastructure
spending), direct cash transfers to the government, or, most radically, direct cash transfers to households.
Today, Japan is India’s largest source of aid and has secured a key role in supporting
infrastructure
development, financing projects like the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor, the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, and the Bangalore Metro Rail Project.
The Return of Public InvestmentCAMBRIDGE – The idea that public investment in
infrastructure
– roads, dams, power plants, and so forth – is an indispensable driver of economic growth has always held powerful sway over the minds of policymakers in poor countries.
And it motivates the new China-led Asian
Infrastructure
Investment Bank (AIIB), which aims to fill the region’s supposed $8 trillion
infrastructure
gap.
Since the 1970s, economists have been advising policymakers to de-emphasize the public sector, physical capital, and infrastructure, and to prioritize private markets, human capital (skills and training), and reforms in governance and institutions.
These days, it is public
infrastructure
investment that helps maintain India’s growth momentum.
In the aftermath of the great recession, there are many ways in which these economies could put additional public spending to good use: to increase demand and employment, restore crumbling infrastructure, and boost research and development, particularly in green technologies.
For example, Germans regard a joint budget not as a way to finance public goods such as research or infrastructure, but as a device to compel Germany to cover other countries’ expenses.
Indeed, China’s military use of space is increasingly dependent and interlinked with civilian and commercial space activities, infrastructure, and human capital.
Part of Bhutan’s GNH revolves, of course, around meeting basic needs – improved health care, reduced maternal and child mortality, greater educational attainment, and better infrastructure, especially electricity, water, and sanitation.
It will be able to increase exports of clean, run-of-the-river hydropower to India, thereby earning foreign exchange in a manner that is sustainable and that can fill government coffers to fund education, health care, and
infrastructure.
Indeed, there is a strong positive correlation between the pace of economic growth and “intangible infrastructure” – the combination of education, health care, technology, and the rule of law that promotes the development of human capital and enables businesses to grow efficiently.
Small countries account for seven of the top ten countries for intangible
infrastructure.
The rail system is limited, and only 14% of roads are paved, which is not surprising, given that Brazil’s investment in
infrastructure
averaged only 2.2% of GDP in 2000-2011 – well below the global average.
While almost half of Africa's 53 countries could profitably produce hydropower, only 7% of this potential is reached because of poor
infrastructure
and the high costs of initial investments.
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