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The key was the voluntary decision of residents to invest a few minutes of their own time in developing their social capital.
Because the balance sheets (public, quasi-public, and private) with the capacity to invest are not uniformly distributed around the world, a determined global effort – which includes an important role for multilateral financial institutions – is needed to clear clogged intermediation channels.
The government’s capacity to invest is under severe pressure.
Seventeen of the 45 blocks are being reserved for unknown companies that will be given a first right of refusal on acreage in exchange for promises to invest heavily in projects not directly related to oil production, such as new power plants and refineries.
Instead, it needs to invest in the region’s human capital and share Indian know-how.
Indeed, the very policy actions needed to reduce the risks of another financial crisis force banks and asset managers to lend and invest for the short term, passing up often more profitable, but less liquid, longer-term opportunities.
Funds are needed to invest in new low-carbon energy sources, reforestation and protection of rain forests, land-use changes, and adaptation and mitigation.
Should these countries’ governments continue to invest heavily in developing indigenous labor forces, with the aim of decreasing dependency on foreign workers?
If not for expat populations in rural and remote areas, there would have been little reason to invest in roads, schools, and hospitals – let alone parks, libraries, and theaters.
As long as financial leaks are sucking the life out of African economies, the continent will struggle to deal with challenges like youth unemployment and have only a limited capacity to invest in areas like health and agriculture.
Moreover, significant societal benefits – for example, more cohesive families and communities – come from investment that creates jobs, so a lower interest rate will give corporations the necessary subsidy to invest.
Let us regulate our financial markets so that outsiders who invest are not sheared.
When women work outside the home, they are less likely to marry young or suffer abuse, and women generally invest more in their family’s future than men do.
Households and companies understand this and cease to consume or invest in anticipation of the painful spending cuts and tax hikes to come.
Firms that invest little will become uncompetitive.
Firms are ready to invest again.
A significant opportunity exists for private actors to invest in providing affordable water-related services to poor and underserved segments of developing-country populations, owing to enormous untapped demand.
When poor families have fewer children, they can afford to invest more per child in health, nutrition, and schooling.
Merely lowering interest rates did not, and will not, lead firms to invest more in these sectors.
The types of products that the latter offer to their customers will need to change, and the mix of assets in which they invest will be different, too.
It will be essential for destination countries to invest in sustainable infrastructure and basic services for new arrivals.
The model is straightforward: first, blend public, private, and charitable contributions; second, invest the funds under rigorous private-sector standards, rather than entrusting them to profligate public-sector actors who often treat donor money with contempt.
Interestingly, the best economic rationale for a zero-interest-rate system is provided in John Maynard Keynes’s The General Theory:“Provisions against usury are amongst the most ancient economic practices of which we have record….In a world, therefore, which no one reckoned to be safe, it was almost inevitable that the rate of interest, unless it was curbed by every instrument at the disposal of society, would rise too high to permit of an adequate inducement to invest.”
The root cause of Germany’s sluggish economic performance in recent years is the continuing unwillingness of its households and enterprises to consume and invest.
Yet Germany’s corporate sector remains reluctant to borrow and invest in the country, because it sees little reason to expect long-term economic growth, given that the population is set to decline and productivity gains remain anemic.
But moving quickly to invest in overseas projects, while appealing to many, carries great risks – and could mean high debt – if not managed properly.
As Chinese firms invest overseas – as mine does currently in Latin America – they have a responsibility not only to invest wisely and sustainably for the sake of their companies, but also to integrate their strategies with China’s national investment priorities.
He can promise to invest state funds in their run-down communities.
Moreover, they rarely earn enough to invest in the needed machinery, and cannot gain access to credit.
The Indian government, for example, has set aside $6 billion for states to invest in forest restoration.
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