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What is needed is visionary leadership at the local level, with municipal governments identifying
infrastructure
projects that promote entrepreneurship, increase their cities’ competitiveness, and promote regional development by strengthening urban-rural connectivity.
A better approach in advanced economies would have comprised less fiscal consolidation in the short run and more investment in productive infrastructure, combined with a more credible commitment to medium- and long-term fiscal adjustment – and less aggressive monetary easing.
In a world where private aggregate demand is weak and unconventional monetary policy eventually becomes like pushing on a string, the case for slower fiscal consolidation and productive public
infrastructure
spending is compelling.
Such spending offers returns that are certainly higher than the low interest rates that most advanced economies face today, and
infrastructure
needs are massive in both advanced and emerging economies (with the exception of China, which has overinvested in infrastructure).
According to the coalition agreement, €36 billion of the surplus will be allocated to various outlays such as transfers to families, higher agricultural and regional subsidies, housing-construction incentives, roads and related infrastructure, universities and school buildings, and even the military.
It neither provides significant relief to the middle class through tax cuts, nor allocates adequate investment for research, infrastructure, or education.
Moreover, the CFTA will increase the need for connectivity, so there will be new opportunities to invest in
infrastructure
and sectors ranging from transportation and energy to information and communications technology (ICT) and water supplies.
Roughly $54 million in IDB loans for water
infrastructure
in Haiti, home to literally the world’s worst water, offered a proven path to preventing deadly water-borne diseases.
Sagging public
infrastructure
and an inability to attract foreign capital have made the economic outlook even worse.
Brazil also pursued energy, arms, and
infrastructure
deals with illiberal regimes, raising eyebrows in the US and Europe.
Rather, they suggest that an unfavorable demographic profile can be offset by other advanced-country characteristics, such as a well-developed physical infrastructure, a highly educated workforce, sophisticated technological capabilities, mature financial markets, and stable governing institutions.
And Hong Kong’s economic blueprint also focuses on accelerating large
infrastructure
projects whose environmental impact has not been rigorously examined.
My government intends to address, urgently, the need to expand day-care facilities and other such
infrastructure
as the foundation for a society that benefits from all of its members’ skills and talents.
There was no link, however, in the cross-country data between corruption and declining public investment, perhaps because large
infrastructure
projects create ample opportunities for bribes.
For Africa’s rural regions, moreover, such policies would help bring communities out of darkness and lead to the installation of other critical
infrastructure
that economic growth requires.
Unlike developed countries, which often struggle to find productive investment opportunities, China can pursue improvements in infrastructure, urbanization efforts, environmental management, and high-tech industries.
After all, what is most profound about these protest movements is not their demands, but rather the nascent
infrastructure
of a common humanity.
The country’s mounting problems – rampant official corruption, decaying social and physical infrastructure, and growing ethnic and religious insurgencies in the northeast, central region, the southeast, and Niger Delta – are yet to be seriously tackled.
The US will seek to guarantee the reliability of its nuclear weapons by spending billions of dollars to improve its nuclear weapons
infrastructure
and conduct tests not involving nuclear detonations.
During the crisis, the EIB has played a pivotal role in financing large-scale
infrastructure
projects, but it is now curtailing its lending – and private banks cannot pick up the slack.
Furthermore, the European Commission’s proposal that the EIB support privately financed
infrastructure
projects through guarantees for corporate bonds, called “project bonds,” must be accelerated and expanded.
Productive investments in areas such as
infrastructure
and knowledge, can not only stimulate growth and employment in the short term, but also are a necessary condition for long-term prosperity.
These funds could then be reinvested into better
infrastructure
– such as port construction, improved cold storage, and modern processing facilities – to support our artisanal and industrial fishing fleets.
But we need more investment in better
infrastructure
to realize our industry’s full potential.
Trump has also promised an $800 billion-$1 trillion program of
infrastructure
investment, to be financed by bonds, as well as a massive corporate-tax cut, both aimed at creating 25 million new jobs and boosting growth.
And, alongside obvious waste, China makes many high-return investments – in the excellent urban
infrastructure
of the first-tier cities, and in the automation equipment of private firms responding to rising real wages.
But the fact is that we have not created the intellectual
infrastructure
to address the fundamental challenges that gene drives – not to mention other powerful technologies – raise.
China has invested billions of dollars in African oil production, mining, transportation, electricity production and transmission, telecommunications, and other
infrastructure.
But, as the 2015 deadline nears, efforts to achieve MDGs must be intensified to ensure further progress on food security, gender equality, maternal health, sanitation, infrastructure, environmental sustainability, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.
The result has been a dramatic drop in the amount of capital available for much-needed investment in
infrastructure
and productive capacity.
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