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The US has been short-changing infrastructure for years.
Historically, federal, state, and local governments have together invested about 2.5% of GDP in non-defense infrastructure assets.
As a result, in the second quarter of this year, total public expenditure on infrastructure fell to an estimated 1.4% of GDP, the lowest share on record.
The report estimates that restoring US infrastructure to “a state of good repair” would cost $4.6 trillion between 2016 and 2025.
Developing new funding sources for infrastructure investment is therefore critical.
As a result, US companies are holding an estimated $2.6 trillion in foreign earnings abroad, rather than repatriating it and paying taxes that could be used to finance, say, domestic infrastructure investment.
Two recent bipartisan bills – which seem to have the support of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, among others – link such reforms directly to federal infrastructure funding.
Private investors have long been eager to invest in public infrastructure – such as transportation or energy – in exchange for a share of those projects’ future revenues.
To date, PPPs have played only a minor role in infrastructure development in the US.
Trump seems convinced that the problem is a lack of available private capital, and thus has proposed a tax plan that includes generous credits to encourage private investment in infrastructure.
What is really limiting private infrastructure investment is, to some extent, public opposition to the private ownership of public assets and, mainly, impediments to matching private capital with infrastructure opportunities.
While 37 states have some form of enabling legislation and regulatory framework for infrastructure PPPs, there are wide disparities among states.
Ultimately, restoring America’s failing infrastructure will require what we call “progressive federalism”: harnessing the strengths of each level of government and working with the private sector to address pressing social and economic challenges.
At a time when Americans seem to agree on little else, almost everyone agrees that it is time to rebuild the country’s infrastructure.
The aim is to improve the overall standard of living – achieving moderately strong growth, raising the share of consumption in GDP, and improving air and water quality – through a combination of Western-style monetary and fiscal policies, state-financed infrastructure development, and changes in environmental and other regulations.
For starters, they are responsible for public capital expenditure, driving the improvement in China’s physical infrastructure and yielding reasonable returns for private investors.
In addition, some governments in the region are under the double pressure of having to reduce their budget deficits and pay back debt; precious little will be left for expenditure that could stimulate economic activity, such as investments in infrastructure or energy efficiency.
Third, the new stimulus package is mainly aimed at infrastructure, equipment renovation, and industrial upgrading, which have suffered serious under-investment in the past, especially in China’s central and western regions.
Sri Lanka is blessed with brilliant people, indefatigable civil-society organizations, decent courts and infrastructure, and abundant natural resources.
But that would require them to rely less on monetary policy and more on appropriate fiscal policies (such as higher spending on productive infrastructure).
He will ease environmental restrictions on the use of pesticides and on licensing for infrastructure development.
Our customs officials and border guards are working actively with an EU mission to modernize our border infrastructure, and we are progressing fast in border demarcation with our only eastern neighbor, Ukraine.
The money could go to them directly, and through investment in job-creating, productivity-increasing infrastructure.
In a sense, even some “conservatives” – who support more public infrastructure spending, but also want tax cuts and oppose more borrowing – de facto support helicopter drops.
More spending on education, skills upgrading, and infrastructure, however, is a no-brainer almost everywhere, and is politically more feasible.
Instead, small policy-rate increases must be incorporated into a broader fiscal and distributional strategy, implemented alongside more public spending on infrastructure and skills upgrading, as well as some gentle forms of income policies, employing, for example, “moral suasion.”
The expansion should finance a global program of investment in physical and human infrastructure, focusing on the two key challenges of our time: cleaner energy and skills for the digital age.
Yet, if Argentina receives sufficient investment to build the infrastructure – the pipelines, railways, silica mines, and waste sites – needed to make Vaca Muerta profitable, the country may become effectively locked into full exploitation.
As a result, the question many are asking is whether, in the wake of the Peshawar killings, the Pakistani military, including its rogue Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, will be willing to break its ties with militant groups and dismantle the state-run terrorist infrastructure.
In addition, China’s economy suffers from inefficient state-owned enterprises, a shaky financial system, and inadequate infrastructure.
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