Infrastructure
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Given the magnitude of the challenge, huge investments will be needed in health-care
infrastructure
and planning.
As a result, there is a risk that their investments and holdings will become “stranded,” as changes in policy or market conditions cut the value of infrastructure, other property, and fossil-fuel reserves.
What bad news there is – industrial scandals (like that at Volkswagen), airline bankruptcies, endlessly delayed
infrastructure
projects – does little to dampen the general sense of safety and wellbeing enjoyed by Germany’s Michels.
But the real problem is that they are distracting from larger issues relating to, say, the euro, security and defense, migration, infrastructure, and taxation.
Although Israel formally withdrew from Gaza, its complete control over the borders, infrastructure, transport, and taxation, together with its regular military incursions in response to shelling from Gaza and its killings and capture of senior Hamas officials, left Palestinians there desperate.
There is more: state and local budget-cutting has slowed America’s pace of investment in human capital and infrastructure, adding a third percentage point to the downward shift in the country’s long-term growth trajectory.
This is the shape of things to come if steps are not taken now to recover rapidly from this lesser depression, and then to implement policies to boost private capital, infrastructure, and education investment back up to trend.
Simply put, it is far from clear that marginal
infrastructure
projects are worth building, given that China is already investing more than 45% of its income, much of it in
infrastructure.
For years, the US achieved fast growth by deferring attention to a variety of issues, ranging from the environment to
infrastructure
to health care.
Rejecting a deal with Israel in 2000, Fatah instead launched a violent revolt that has lasted ever since then, destroying the
infrastructure
built up in the Palestinian territories during the previous decade.
To this end, we will carry out joint projects in five key areas: education, finance, industrial infrastructure, quality of life, and economic development.
A national economy can take off only when the necessary infrastructure, an adequate level of competition, and reasonable government policies are in place.
A chronic budget deficit was brought under control,
infrastructure
upgraded, and the banking sector strengthened.
CAMBRIDGE – Ever since Donald Trump won the US presidential election, the press and financial markets have focused on his proposal to cut taxes and to spend $1 trillion on
infrastructure
over the next decade.
Anyone who listened to his speeches or read his campaign material should have noted that he was not proposing that the federal government should carry out the
infrastructure
investment.
Instead, Trump’s campaign called for a “deficit-neutral system of
infrastructure
tax credits” to provide incentives for private businesses to undertake projects to build roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, and so forth.
Critics who argue that fiscal stimulus in Japan failed in the past – leading only to squandered investment in useless
infrastructure
– make two mistakes.
Second, anyone visiting Japan recognizes the benefits of its
infrastructure
investments (America could learn a valuable lesson here).
Environmental factors and
infrastructure
are critical for creating such dynamic, competitive conditions.
Infrastructure, for example, lowers the cost and improves the quality of connectivity.
Most arguments in favor of
infrastructure
investment focus on the negative: collapsing bridges, congested highways, second-rate air travel, and so forth.
The aspiration should be to invest in
infrastructure
that will create entirely new opportunities for private-sector investment and innovation.
In the US, for example, Congress has passed a tax-reform package that may produce an additional increment in private investment, but will do little to reduce inequality, restore and redeploy human capital, improve infrastructure, or expand scientific and technological knowledge.
Ray Dalio describes a path featuring investment in human capital, infrastructure, and the scientific base of the economy as path A. The alternative is path B, characterized by a lack of investment in areas that will directly boost productivity, such as
infrastructure
and education.
In the United States, where markets, the judiciary, and regulation are highly developed, the imperative is not institutional reform, but policy reform – addressing the weak fiscal position, income and wealth inequities, unemployment, health care, and deteriorating physical
infrastructure.
The US lacks investment in
infrastructure
and has excess investment in financial derivatives – the result of opaque leverage from over-consumption.
The only way Trump will square his promises of higher
infrastructure
and defense spending with large tax cuts and deficit reduction is a heavy dose of what used to be called voodoo economics.
Similarly, the increase in
infrastructure
spending is likely to be accomplished through tax credits, which will help hedge funds, but not America’s balance sheet: such programs’ long track record shows that they deliver little value for money.
The debate just eight years ago about “shovel-ready”
infrastructure
seems to be a distant memory.
If Trump chooses shovel-ready projects, the long-term impact on productivity will be minimal; if he chooses real infrastructure, the short-term impact on economic growth will be minimal.
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