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Others seek comfort in the expectation that Trump’s wildly contradictory plans – lower taxes, while raising infrastructure spending; helping the neglected working class, while slashing welfare and repealing the Affordable Care Act – will suck his administration into a swamp of infighting, incoherence, and incompetence.
By contrast, finance and infrastructure ministries of have more of a back-end character.
Mobile phones took off in Africa because the technology was so much cheaper than investment in landline infrastructure.
In flood-prone countries, city-planning schemes should blend gray infrastructure, such as drainage systems, dikes, and sea walls, with green measures, like conservation of wetlands and forests.
But even without noisome politics, the sheer amount of money required to stage the Olympic Games – the building contracts for stadiums, transport infrastructure, and hotels, together with all the other commercial razzmatazz – was bound to produce a culture of bribery and kickbacks.
Countries that offer world-class infrastructure, high-skill staff, and simple business rules may be well entitled to ask companies to pay a commensurate tax in return.
Deficits are problematic if they finance consumption, not productive public investment on infrastructure.
The crisis funding of the modest delayed infrastructure component of most stimulus programs suggests that much of it would not pass a rigorous cost-benefit test.
Whether a more populist government would be able to break radically with India’s flawed fiscal policies and create an environment favorable to a dramatic improvement in India’s shamefully poor human and physical infrastructure – which would give a solid boost to India’s economy over the long term – remains to be seen.
For starters, central banks cannot deliver the structural components – for example, infrastructure investments, better-functioning labor markets, and pro-growth budget reforms – needed to drive robust and sustained recovery.
Even more important was the institutional infrastructure, including the binding commitment to democracy and the vast array of laws and regulations that we too often take for granted.
Under this system, fewer students who intend to work permanently overseas will accept government subsidies, and more money will be available for students who wish to practice in their country of origin, or for investments in health-care infrastructure.
For example, US law hampers the federal government’s ability to protect critical infrastructure and key resources from cyber attacks.
And new houses, roads, bridges, and other infrastructure, such as water systems, should be built to withstand extreme weather.
It will be essential for destination countries to invest in sustainable infrastructure and basic services for new arrivals.
The only real option for tackling the refugee crisis is to address the causes of people’s displacement, including terrorism, hunger, disease, oppression, inadequate infrastructure, scarce vital resources, a lack of jobs and economic prospects, and falling standards of living.
But the growth fillip from public-sector infrastructure spending can only be modest.
Increasing infrastructure spending by a quarter, which would represent a huge administrative effort, would lift GDP growth by just 0.4 percentage points.
For example, Brazil’s government has promoted an “Investment Partnerships Program” to coordinate investments in the finance and transportation infrastructure sectors.
In order to avoid a hard landing that would make structural adjustment extremely difficult to implement – not, it should be noted, to prop up growth – another stimulus package that increases aggregate demand through infrastructure investment is needed.
The Bank contributed significantly in its early decades to the development of high-quality physical infrastructure, a critical area that, unfortunately, was later marginalized.
And, they must provide farmers with the infrastructure, energy supplies, and supportive policies that they need in order to get their products to the market.
The region, which covers a quarter of the country, has come under growing pressure from production of beef, soy, and other commodities, together with the associated infrastructure.
China needs to build its municipal bond market to generate more sustainable funding for infrastructure projects.
Increased costs for investment in real assets would help to rein in property prices and reduce over-capacity in infrastructure and manufacturing.
The government’s initial policies aimed at raising aggregate demand focused on major infrastructure spending, including roads and mass transit.
The latest view, endorsed by the European Commission, blames a shortage of infrastructure and proposes more bridges and tunnels.
Steps are being taken to revamp a costly and inefficient subsidy system, improve infrastructure, and deal with its energy-supply problems.
But in the longer term, with deficits looming, international trade agreements torn up, and totally inadequate spending on vital infrastructure, education, and health care, things could turn out very badly.
In the absence of effective vaccines or new anti-malarial drugs – and the funding and infrastructure to deliver them – this decision is tantamount to mass murder, a triumph of radical environmental politics over public health.
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