Infrastructure
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Skeptics might say that they should just focus on fixing the things that locals care about, such as education or infrastructure, or improve everybody’s “business environment.”
The specific rules, infrastructure, skills, and technological mastery that export activities require tend to be different from those needed for the non-tradable activities that usually generate the bulk of a place’s employment.
Moreover, such projects would promote cooperation between the states in the EU’s southern neighborhood, potentially boosting investments in education, infrastructure, and industrial development.
There, the takeoff point for joining Asia’s great production chains was not just the country’s low wages, but a decision to redress past government omissions: trade liberalization, creation of a more favorable investment climate, and
infrastructure
improvements.
Many of Trump’s policy priorities – including tax reform, some deregulation, a military build-up,
infrastructure
spending, and the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act – will require legislation.
But now, given China’s one-child policy and lack of adequate
infrastructure
(including housing) in rapidly growing areas, labor is getting scarce and wages are rising.
China can help by stiffening the resolve of Pakistan’s military to move more aggressively to contain Taliban extremists on its territory; open border regions to help resupply NATO forces in Afghanistan; and invest in the country’s
infrastructure.
Public development finance will have to focus on large-scale access to housing and a people-oriented
infrastructure.
Despite these vast differences, it is possible to draw some conclusions:Effects following destruction of
infrastructure.
The majority of street protests have occurred in the most deprived and neglected areas, and the primary demands have been economic: better jobs, housing, health-care services, and
infrastructure.
And demonstrators have gone to great – sometimes destructive – lengths to be heard, blocking roads, occupying factories and government buildings, and sabotaging water and electricity
infrastructure.
The government would adopt a two-year program consisting of only two items: the conclusion of a “soft” Brexit deal with the EU and a big public investment program in housing, infrastructure, and green energy.
Investment rose from 42% of GDP in 2007 to 48% in 2010, with property and
infrastructure
projects attracting the most funding.
With hundreds of cities competing with one another through
infrastructure
development, “ghost towns" will proliferate.
Local governments use land as collateral to take out loans to fund
infrastructure
investment, then finance repayment by relying on revenues from subsequent land sales.
With much of the country’s agriculture relying heavily on rainfall, owing to underdeveloped infrastructure, cereal yields are down 40% this year.
Moreover, additional investment – financed from domestic and international sources – should be allocated to repairing aging water infrastructure, as well as new projects, such as well-designed dams and water reservoirs.
Investing in road
infrastructure
tends to be regressive in societies where only a minority own automobiles.
Building an
infrastructure
for an ever-growing number of cars was a daunting task, one that absorbed the attention and resources of many Third World governments over the past three decades.
In the eurozone, for the most part, national governments separately choose investment levels in infrastructure, education, research, and technology.
Meanwhile, resistance to China’s Belt and Road Initiative – which has also been demonized by some Chinese national-security hawks – could choke off one of the world’s few sources of finance for much-needed
infrastructure
and public goods, particularly in developing countries.
Inevitably, government – through its infrastructure, laws and regulations (including taxation), and education system – shapes the economy.
T3 in Beijing is just one of many projects China has recently built to improve its transportation
infrastructure.
In exchange for financing and building the
infrastructure
that poorer countries need, China demands favorable access to their natural assets, from mineral resources to ports.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wants to transform toilet technology itself, so that toilets aren’t dependent on major infrastructure, such as sewage systems and water-treatment plants.
Russia’s social security fund is running out of money and has to be merged with the government’s
infrastructure
fund in order to be replenished.
Indeed, the tasks that these countries are undertaking – investing in
infrastructure
(roads, electricity, ports, and much else), building cities that will one day be home to billions, and moving toward a green economy – are truly enormous.
Experts have cautioned that ISIS could strike unprotected
infrastructure
or private residences.
With these in place, African countries can marshal additional resources for infrastructure, innovation, expertise, and new technologies.
What matters, then, is how those resources are invested, and whether we have the capacity and
infrastructure
to facilitate joint NATO missions and US operations on and around the continent.
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