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African countries’ combined spending on education alone should increase by tens of billions of dollars per year; combined infrastructure spending should surge by at least $100 billion per year.
The US and Europe also need major new infrastructure programs.
The US – where the last big infrastructure project, the national highway system, was concluded in the 1970s – should emphasize investment in low-carbon energy, high-speed rail, and the mass uptake of electric vehicles.
The resulting peace dividend should be channeled toward health care, education, and infrastructure in today’s impoverished and war-torn regions.
The World Bank estimates that Africa will require at least $93 billion a year to fund its infrastructure needs alone.
Climate-friendly, sustainable infrastructure will cost even more.
Diversification requires investment in the future, in the form of education and well-developed infrastructure, including telecommunications, power, roads, rail, and water.
The government implemented a step-by-step transformation of the country into a service economy, putting in place the infrastructure and incentives necessary to build up financial services, tourism, medical services, real estate, media, arts, and culture.
The continent is well placed to build diversified economies based on low-carbon, sustainable infrastructure.
Some have excellent infrastructure at their disposal, while their international competitors may have to contend with constant power cuts.
Senior US officials continue to say that there is no infrastructure to dispense medicines, even as these officials visit hospitals that possess the necessary doctors, clinics, nurses, and pharmacies.
Furthermore, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang recently offered $20 billion to finance infrastructure and development projects in the ASEAN countries.
Here again – in areas like housing, the labor market, credit intermediation, and infrastructure – there is less room for maneuver than most politicians would like us to believe.
And that does not account for the costs of building or upgrading infrastructure.
Public infrastructure investments displace private investments and the taxes necessary to finance them introduce further distortions in demand.
Fulfilling these ambitions will require efficiency-boosting investments, particularly in infrastructure.
Beyond endangering lives, more frequent and stronger storms could cost many billions of dollars, owing to infrastructure damage and lost revenues from farming, fisheries, and tourism.
Coastal and marine ecosystems have considerable potential to mitigate the effects of storms and other risks, especially when combined with traditional built infrastructure.
Given such findings, it is no longer inconceivable that insurance companies might one day write coverage for wetlands and other natural infrastructure that offers protection for coastal communities and economies.
A Red Cross-led mangrove restoration project in Vietnam not only reduced damage to dykes and other built infrastructure, but also resulted in higher aquaculture yields and thus more income for the local communities.
Specifically, the report recommends calculating the value of coastal ecosystems in terms of protected capital and infrastructure, based on approaches commonly used by the insurance and engineering industries.
Increased spending on infrastructure by governments, to boost investment and growth directly, is more to the point.
But whether the Trump administration and the new US Congress can design and implement a program of productive infrastructure spending remains to be seen.
Under Rousseff, inflation mounted and the real’s exchange rate plunged; large “white elephant” infrastructure projects were launched and then abandoned; and the effort to reduce interest rates artificially led to a consumer credit bubble.
To succeed, we will need several decades to convert power stations, infrastructure, and building stock to low-carbon technologies, and we will need to upgrade the low-carbon technologies themselves, whether PV solar cells, or batteries for energy storage, or CCS for safely storing CO2, or nuclear power plants that win the public’s confidence.
Although the GCC countries have built world-class infrastructure over the last four decades, they remains prone to malinvestment, especially during periods of sustained high oil prices.
The initiative will aim to promote economic cooperation and integration in the Asia-Pacific region, mainly by providing financing for infrastructure like roads, railways, airports, seaports, and power plants.
For example, Zhou indicated that the SRF will adopt at least a 15-year time horizon for investments, rather than the 7-10-year horizon adopted by many private equity firms, to account for the slower return on infrastructure investment in developing countries.
Expenditures on which America's future economic health depends - on infrastructure, education, health, and technology - will be crowded out, jeopardizing long-term growth.
All societies require an effective government that can provide vital and irreplaceable public services and infrastructure.
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