Infrastructure
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With China expanding its cyberwarfare capabilities and investing in vital telecom infrastructure, the US government recently saw fit to bar US firms from selling components to the Chinese telecom giant ZTE.
But, but instead of supplying the population with the necessary
infrastructure
– economic development, education, welfare, medical services, housing, and refugee rehabilitation – Yasser Arafat’s Fatah-led PA spent more than 70% of its meager budget on a dozen competing security and intelligence services, neglecting all other spheres of activity.
China’s critical needs today include reducing inequality, stemming environmental degradation, creating livable cities, and investments in public health, education, infrastructure, and technology.
The upshot of the BRICS meeting was the announcement of the New Development Bank, which will mobilize resources for
infrastructure
and sustainable development projects, and a Contingent Reserve Arrangement to provide liquidity through currency swaps.
Such a recovery requires efforts to create jobs and enhance countries’ productive capacity – for example, through
infrastructure
development – thereby encouraging complementary private investments and generating the conditions necessary to sustain long-term growth.
Moreover, the public sector must be more proactive in sustaining aggregate demand through investments in social and physical
infrastructure.
With better
infrastructure
and increased supply, this figure could be many times more.
Second,
infrastructure
needs to be developed to connect national markets.
The effort requires significant investment, not least in
infrastructure
development in both the developed and developing world.
3.A deal that supports, through a mixture of both public and private financing, the
infrastructure
required to shift to a low-carbon economy.
Controlling Cyber ConflictLAS VEGAS – When cyber-security professionals were polled recently at their annual BlackHat conference in Las Vegas, 60% said they expected the United States to suffer a successful attack against its critical
infrastructure
in the next two years.
Norms that may be ripe for discussion outside the GGE process could include protected status for the core functions of the Internet; supply-chain standards and liability for the Internet of Things; treatment of election processes as protected infrastructure; and, more broadly, norms for issues such as crime and information warfare.
Governments, too, should think strategically about shifting their spending away from tangible
infrastructure
like roads and buildings, and toward intangibles like education and research and development.
Likewise, a key driver of rapid development in countries like Singapore, Malaysia, and South Korea has been their strategic decision to shift public expenditure away from hard
infrastructure
and toward the “soft”
infrastructure
needed to build and sustain a knowledge economy.
China’s cities are forecast to spend around $5.3 trillion on
infrastructure
over the next 15 years; but denser, more efficient cities would save around $1.4 trillion (15% of 2013 GDP) of these costs.
China’s citizens, especially its poor, would benefit from a shift in government policy from the physical expansion of cities and
infrastructure
to the delivery of better, more fairly distributed public services.
Konzo-affected regions lack the agricultural, educational, and public-health capacity and
infrastructure
needed to implement the necessary changes.
The world spends nearly $7 trillion a year on energy and its infrastructure; yet our current research and development efforts are not up to meeting the challenge of climate change.
Moreover, Mexico would need to invest $71 billion annually to bring
infrastructure
to the level needed to support 3.5% growth.
The world’s energy
infrastructure
– finely tooled for the use of fossil fuels – is worth $55 trillion.
The most common narrative we hear about Haiti is one of great need – the “poorest country in the Western hemisphere,” with weak
infrastructure
and health problems that include the region’s highest rates of infant, under-five, and maternal mortality.
Firms in the energy, infrastructure, banking, and armaments sectors have been nationalized.
These targets should be fully embraced, and policymakers should continue to encourage major investments in broadband, as well as in the
infrastructure
needed to support the wireless devices in which we have all come to depend.
Governments must expand national
infrastructure
so that students in densely packed urban areas and remote rural villages alike can get online.
New Battlegrounds in Development FinancePRETORIA – The popularity of public-private partnerships (PPPs) to support
infrastructure
development in emerging countries is growing worldwide.
The BRICS economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) see them as a way to build essential
infrastructure
quickly and cheaply.
The United Nations hopes that
infrastructure
PPPs will provide the means to realize its post-2015 global development agenda.
The PPP bandwagon has three essential components: an explosion in
infrastructure
finance (backed by pension and other large funds); the creation of “pipelines” of lucrative mega-PPP projects to exploit countries’ raw materials; and the dismantling of environmental and social safeguards.
The World Bank is already seeking to double its lending within a decade by expanding
infrastructure
projects.
Its new Global
Infrastructure
Facility (GIF) will mobilize global pension and sovereign wealth funds to invest in
infrastructure
as a specific asset class.
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