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China’s Renewable-Energy RevolutionBEIJING – At the start of 2017, China announced that it would
invest
$360 billion in renewable energy by 2020 and scrap plans to build 85 coal-fired power plants.
Cultivating critical-thinking skills takes time and practice, which is why it is more important than ever to
invest
in education.
If these fundamental institutions were right, then landlords, merchants, and manufacturers would
invest
and improve.
Rather, firms are less inclined to
invest
because slow wage growth is depressing consumption, and thus overall economic growth.
Other investors often tell me that they would like to
invest
for the long term, but that their fiduciary duty to their clients bars them from doing so.
Fund managers who are under constant pressure to post profits or defend short-term results cannot afford to
invest
with entrepreneurs building businesses that are optimized for the next ten years, rather than for the next quarter.
But the law does not offer much of an incentive to
invest
in new capital, either by launching a new company, developing new products, or investing in new plants and equipment.
Those committed to seeing the wealth generated by energy and mining finally result in better lives for ordinary people would do well to
invest
in the initiative during this critical stage.
They also encourage borrowers to
invest
in projects with long-run returns that may not be politically attractive, such as teacher training.
One background paper for the summit highlights the failure of successive governments in Pakistan, which now has the world’s second-largest out-of-school population, to
invest
in education.
Our governments must
invest
heavily in our neighbors’ stability, including by bringing the Syrian peace process to a successful conclusion, and in the wellbeing of all of our citizens.
A strong state is needed to support nascent markets and enforce laws and regulation, and it must
invest
in productivity-enhancing education and health care.
While water obviously shouldn’t become an expensive luxury good, governments’ reluctance to charge appropriately for it has undermined their ability to
invest
in water utilities, including proper wastewater collection and treatment.
Given that the denial and destruction of economic opportunity has been at the heart of the insurgency, there is no better way to deliver a peace dividend than to
invest
in education.
The surest way to buck this trend is to
invest
in education, promote innovation, and foster efficiency.
Despite income growth, households are reluctant to consume and build; and, despite a surge in profits, companies are not inclined to take risks and
invest.
A sort of beefed-up Juncker plan (the European Commission president’s scheme to
invest
€315 billion over three years), based on preselected projects to be activated when the time is right, would provide a significant hedge against the risk of recession.
Developed countries should
invest
in affordable child care, early childhood education, and parental leave; shift from family to individual taxes; and provide more generous tax credits, benefits, and protections for low-wage and part-time workers.
The US government will no longer be able to afford to
invest
hundreds of billions of dollars (the cost in Iraq alone will run into the trillions) trying to supply other people with decent government.
To avoid such an outcome, India’s government should pursue a set of bold reforms that boost growth by encouraging businesses to invest, scale up, and hire.
It is no accident that the world’s best firms – which have the highest productivity, profits, and wages, and
invest
in strengthening human capital – are trade champions.
But, in the long term, Brazil will have to
invest
more in generation – and those investments, as every government in Latin America knows, are increasingly controversial for political and environmental reasons.
Furthermore, governments should offer subsidies or tax incentives to companies that
invest
in the skills that humans master better than machines, such as communication and negotiation.
It makes sense to first
invest
in the areas that achieve the greatest benefits.
They need to
invest
considerable time and money in training scientists and engineers, establishing genuinely independent, well-funded regulators, and putting in place the necessary technical infrastructure.
If those arrangements are secure, users of land have an incentive not just to implement best practices for their use of it (paying attention to, say, environmental impacts), but also to
invest
more.
Of course, economies that depend on foreign investment are bound to be hurt nowadays, because those investors have less capital to
invest.
So-called frontier economies have issued record levels of sovereign bonds, while bilateral creditors, like China, continue to
invest
heavily.
Even if the summit produces few specific results, it can make a difference if three demands are made of the summiteers:we should insist that the world's politicians recognize the overwhelming scientific evidence that points to the major environmental perils humanity faces;we should press these leaders to
invest
more public money in basic environmental research and in the development of new technologies to address environmental risks.
When it comes to disease, they have at times been willing to
invest
to slow or stop epidemics like AIDS, malaria, and Ebola, both to save lives and to prevent the diseases from coming to their own countries.
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