Infrastructure
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The education challenges raised by advancing technologies affect everyone, so countries should work together to address them, including through exchanges of students and teachers and construction and upgrading of ICT
infrastructure.
Not only had Nasheed awarded China its first
infrastructure
contracts; just three months before his ouster, he had inaugurated the new Chinese embassy in the capital, Malé, on the same day that India’s then-prime minister, Manmohan Singh, arrived for a regional summit.
Smart trade requires two key provisions: core labor rights, backed up by tough enforcement, and a development fund targeting
infrastructure
and education to boost competitiveness.
The Palestinian half of the city suffers from a lack of infrastructure, including roads, sewage, and schools.
To offset falling export demand in the wake of the global financial crisis, the government unleashed an enormous wave of investment in railways, urban infrastructure, and property.
Most urgent,
infrastructure
must be built to enable the deployment of ICT services.
To be sure, the G20 has offered a convenient framework to coordinate responses and, sometimes, to generate and disseminate innovative policy ideas, such as those relating to energy transitions and
infrastructure
finance.
The region’s emerging democracies urgently need an Arab initiative that resembles the Marshall Plan – a program to attract large-scale investment in infrastructure, industry, and agriculture (and in the region’s wealth of untapped technical skills), thereby boosting employment.
Energy, transport
infrastructure
– roads, railways, and waterways – and crime prevention have all benefited.
Such a target would put all new fossil-fuel-based
infrastructure
under intense scrutiny; if we need to drive emissions down, why build another coal plant or badly insulated building?
The growth pact can be properly financed by new sources of revenue, such as a financial-transaction tax and joint project bonds for
infrastructure
investment, or by curbing tax evasion and tax fraud and eliminating tax havens, as well as by more efficient and intelligent use of structural funds.
The European Investment Bank would be a good vehicle – in addition to new project bonds – to boost spending on major
infrastructure
projects (for example, in the energy sector).
Most serious academic research strongly supports the view that rich countries can best help poor regions like Africa by opening their markets, and by providing assistance in building physical and institutional
infrastructure.
Privatization and PPPs in infrastructure, energy, health, education, transport, and logistics could attract massive domestic and foreign investment.
As a third step, the GCC countries should issue debt and sukuk (Sharia-compliant bonds) to finance budget deficits as well as development projects and
infrastructure
investment.
This includes not only raw materials and machines, which can be shipped around, but also many specialized labor skills, infrastructure, and rules, which cannot be moved easily and hence need to be spatially collocated.
Clinton would like to squeeze expenditures on education, environment, science, technology, and
infrastructure
into his budgets.
Moreover, recent analyses, carried out in conjunction with the establishment of the new BRICS bank, have demonstrated the woeful inadequacy of official assistance and concessional lending for meeting Africa’s
infrastructure
needs, let alone for achieving the levels of sustained growth needed to reduce poverty significantly.
Another global fiscal stimulus – focused on public investment in
infrastructure
and education – would deliver the adrenaline shot needed for a robust recovery.
The “Reagan Revolution” had four main components: tax cuts for the rich; spending cuts on education, infrastructure, energy, climate change, and job training; massive growth in the defense budget; and economic deregulation, including privatization of core government functions, like operating military bases and prisons.
Indeed, he devoted almost the entire speech to the positive role of government in providing education, fighting climate change, rebuilding infrastructure, taking care of the poor and disabled, and generally investing in the future.
It is certainly time for a rebirth of public purpose and government leadership in the US to fight climate change, help the poor, promote sustainable technologies, and modernize America’s
infrastructure.
He is right to do so, because many of today’s crucial challenges – saving the planet from our own excesses; ensuring that technological advances benefit all members of society; and building the new
infrastructure
that we need nationally and globally for a sustainable future – demand collective solutions.
Asia needs more help with
infrastructure
investment than the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank can provide;China can play a useful leadership role; and the participation of countries with high governance standards can help prevent the cronyism, corruption, and environmental damage to which large-scale
infrastructure
projects are prone.
While Macron’s program includes significant proposals for addressing supply-side issues with the French economy, it also favors output stabilization and, more important, increased spending in areas like public infrastructure, digitization, and clean energy to boost potential growth.
While it is true that the German government cannot (fortunately) fine-tune wages, it could, out of sheer self-interest, provide for its future by investing more in its human and social capital – including schools, from kindergartens to universities, and
infrastructure
like roads, bridges, and bandwidth.
An unpredictable regulatory environment, inadequate infrastructure, and a sluggish, monsoon-dependent agricultural sector are adding to the economy’s problems.
In India, the government’s failure to contain rising prices, pursue structural economic reforms vigorously, attract foreign direct investment, advance
infrastructure
development, manage expenditure, and avoid liquidity crunches underscores the many challenges it faces.
One reason that Indian prices are rising is that
infrastructure
growth remains sluggish.
The diagnosis and treatment of most types of cancer in developing countries would require a huge and daunting investment in
infrastructure.
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