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But the urban poor, faced with bad housing, limited infrastructure, and meager services, are vulnerable to epidemics, malnutrition-based childhood diseases, HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and mental disorders.
It is invariably more efficient to build and maintain health-related infrastructure, such as water supply and sanitation systems, clinics, and hospitals, and deliver specialized health care, where population densities are highest – and to create affordable-care networks of community health workers using low-cost technology.
If cities are to drive emerging-market countries towards a better future, their governments must ensure that urban housing, infrastructure, and services stay abreast of demand.
Gazprom’s ambitions for gaining control of pipeline and energy transport infrastructure must be slowed, which requires allowing independent producers to prosper.
Acknowledging that the core institutional infrastructure of the global economy must be built at the national level frees countries to develop the institutions that suit them best.
By contrast, the advice of Reinhart and Rogoff leans more toward financial repression, postponement of fiscal adjustment (trim entitlements in the future, but increase infrastructure spending today), or, in more far-gone cases like Greece, debt restructuring.
The development of the road (actually several “belts,” including a southern maritime route) will require huge investments in transport and urban infrastructure.
The fixed-capital investments that have formed the basis of China’s growth model largely have benefited the entire economy; infrastructure improvements, for example, have enabled the rural poor to increase their productivity and incomes.
But this occurred after a world war that had created huge pent-up demand for new equipment, transport infrastructure, and household appliances, together with a military-industrial complex that armed the West during the Cold War.
After Alexander Hamilton, the country’s first treasury secretary, mutualized the states’ Revolutionary War debts in 1791 by turning them into federal debt, the states went on a borrowing binge to finance infrastructure projects.
Infrastructure investment - which had been difficult for the embattled British Raj to finance--suddenly boomed.
Africa’s Hard Black GoldLAGOS - Few infrastructure services in the developed world may be as taken for granted as electric power.
Furthermore, they are prone to frequent drought, which reduces their output significantly, leaving many as little more than decorative infrastructure landmarks.
How is it that America gives us Silicon Valley wizardry and Third World infrastructure?
In his inequality speech, Obama reiterated several proposals to accelerate growth: increasing exports, reforming the corporate tax code, and investing more in infrastructure, R&D, and education.
The infrastructure for such cooperation has developed strongly since 2008, and China must not shy away from advocating its deployment.
Jokowi, who takes office in October, must implement policies that address rising inequality, unsustainable fuel subsidies, entrenched corruption, inadequate infrastructure, and restrictive labor laws – all while rebuilding trust in Indonesian institutions.
Obama rightly emphasized that competitiveness in the world today depends on an educated workforce and modern infrastructure.
America and Europe will keep their high living standards only by basing their competitiveness on advanced skills, cutting-edge technologies, and modern infrastructure.
That is why Obama called for an increase in US public investment in three areas: education, science and technology, and infrastructure (including broadband Internet, fast rail, and clean energy).
Unless the US steps up its investment in education, science, technology, and infrastructure, these adverse trends will continue.
The problem is that more than half of such spending is on education, science and technology, and infrastructure – the areas that Obama had just argued should be strengthened.
Both political parties, and the White House, would rather cut taxes than spend more on education, science and technology, and infrastructure.
But 30% of GDP is not enough to cover the needs of health, education, science and technology, social security, infrastructure, and other vital government responsibilities.
Third on the panel’s list is increased investment in the construction and maintenance of infrastructure.
Most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean spend less than 2% of GDP on infrastructure, compared with 3% to 6% in China and Korea.
In Southern Africa, the Southern African Development Community, after a shaky start, is pushing ahead with joint projects, of which transport infrastructure, a blight on much intra-African commerce, is a central theme.
Co-operative regional projects are, today, Africa's best hope for constructing the type of infrastructure African economies require.
And, as the SDGs recognize, resilient infrastructure and incentives for innovation are also crucial.
In Asia, we all are facing the threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missiles, as well as non-traditional security threats, including terrorism, violent extremism, and cyber-attacks on our businesses, our social and civic infrastructure, and our official institutions.
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