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Why would business leaders
invest
in an uncertain world, rather than paying dividends to demanding (but generally risk-averse) investors, or buying back some of their companies’ own shares (thereby improving the price/earnings ratio and, better yet, increasing their own remuneration)?
(I should disclose that I plan to
invest
in this company – not necessarily because I think that it will be the next hot IPO, but because I think that it exploits some interesting and accelerating trends.
This is not surprising – businesses
invest
when they are confident about future demand and output growth.
In Africa, Asia, and Latin America, microfinance has enabled SMEs to
invest
in drought-resistant crops, build better irrigation systems, and purchase climate insurance to protect incomes when crops fail because of too much – or too little – rainfall.
This will require that successive US administrations emphasize free trade, increase America’s air and naval presence, and
invest
in diplomacy designed to promote China’s integration within the region on terms consistent with the interests of the US, its allies (Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Australia), and its many friends.
These six steps require a comprehensive and coordinated change in behavior, and will require government at all levels to cooperate,
invest
at scale, share ideas, replicate best practices, and plan for the long term.
Unlike France, however, they also used census data to identify pockets of new unemployment, and to
invest
socially and politically, not only in excellent job-training programs, but in job creation, and, just as importantly, in job-placement schemes.
Failing to
invest
appropriately in prevention of infectious-disease outbreaks puts all of us at risk, whenever or wherever the next one occurs.
The same is true of Russia, whose oligarchs, as well as the huge state investment fund that finance minister Alexi Kudrin has created, also want to
invest
their oil revenues in the US.
A greater tendency to consume would “serve to increase at the same time the inducement to invest.”
But Indian producers and transporters will not
invest
in them if they bear the costs, while the public at large receives the benefits.
Poor farmers may lack the capital to
invest
in it, or may lack the incentive to do so if water is taken directly from publicly available sources or if the government is subsidizing its use.
Most countries
invest
to measure GNP, but spend little to identify the sources of poor health (like fast foods and excessive TV watching), declining social trust, and environmental degradation.
Last year, with the New York Declaration, governments around the world made a collective promise to
invest
in refugees and the communities hosting them.
So far, Norway has avoided the worst pitfalls of the Dutch disease by using its massive oil revenues to establish a national savings scheme, the Petroleum Fund, which is permitted to
invest
only in foreign assets.
The result of all of this is likely to be a long-term decline of US power and prosperity, because Americans no longer
invest
collectively in their common future.
OFs can choose the nature of the assets (the risk/return profiles) they offer their investors, but must be organized as corporations or partnerships, which
invest
at least 90% of their capital in OZs.
Individuals who
invest
in OFs are eligible for several tax benefits.
A recent Brookings Institution report estimates that, “Individuals in a high-tax state and with short-term capital gains can avoid $7.50 in taxes for each $100 they invest, even before considering any return on their Zone investments.”
With companies and institutional players too frightened to
invest
in the real economy, share prices have boomed, the top 0.1% can’t believe their luck, and the rest are helplessly watching as the grapes of wrath are “…filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
And in view of the urgent need to fight climate change, Africa needs to
invest
in clean energy sources.
Given the trillions of dollars of potential losses from human-induced climate change, and the trillions of dollars invested annually in global energy systems, the world’s governments would be wise to
invest
tens of billions of dollars each year in the research and development needed to achieve a low-carbon energy future.
Moreover, Germany’s government should use its fiscal space to
invest
in education, in particular in pre-schools and primary schools.
And it should
invest
in developing an internationally competitive digital infrastructure and a social security system that ensures labor-force participation and lowers long-term unemployment.
First, they nudge pioneers to
invest
in uncertain, risky ventures, with the resulting research-and-development efforts generating highly valuable social benefits.
Indeed, with state companies now producing one-third of Russia’s oil, output growth has plummeted, as owners of private enterprises – the source of dynamism in the sector – are now afraid to
invest
in new capacity.
As a result, it struggles to
invest
adequately not just in NCDs; it is also lagging in other areas, including mental health, accidents and injuries, and chronic pain.
Yet, to make the most of data sharing, donors should also shift their mindset and
invest
more in quality data collection and management during project implementation, and sustain funding for curation and continued analysis of datasets.
The idea is that price action will trigger both the “wealth effect” and “animal spirits,” thus inducing consumers to spend more and companies to
invest
in future capacity.
For example, Bill Gates made global headlines during the negotiations when he announced a $2 billion fund to
invest
in clean energy, financed by the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, a group of 26 global philanthropists and the University of California.
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