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For every dollar invested in childhood immunizations, for example, developing countries realize $44 in economic benefits.
The truth is that, thanks to extensive experience designing and implementing cost-effective aid programs, poorly used funds represent a tiny fraction of the total invested in aid.
Over the past six years, the African Development Bank has invested $3.3 billion in projects to expand access to water and improve sanitation, with around $2.2 billion of that going to urban services that reach at least 17 million people.
For forty years, India invested heavily in a series of leading science-based universities, especially the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
That tide is turning because of increased mothers' literacy, better health care, and improved medical technologies, families are having fewer children, with much more education invested in each child.
But the same – and perhaps worse – can be said about China, yet the EU has invested much political capital in a strategic, multifaceted partnership with its rulers.
Like Russia, Iran has invested plenty of blood and treasure to save Assad’s regime – and reaped handsome returns.
Our invested wealth can only be made to appear liquid to any one of us, and only if there is no general shift in our collective desire for liquidity.
The EU initially invested heavily in the development of machine translation, but has essentially abandoned the project.
That means that the “safe” cash flow from today’s assets can end up invested in the next generation of high-cost assets that are at a far greater risk of stranding.
The EU and the United States provided critical support for the Russian economy when it was needed, Western companies have invested heavily, and Russia has benefited significantly from its reintegration into the global economy.
Most of its savings were being invested abroad, and its domestic net investment share was among the lowest of all OECD countries.
Tax revenues transferred to pensioners could have been invested in infrastructure, education, scientific research, defense, and all the other urgent causes that politicians claim to support.
Last year, a record-setting $13.6 billion was invested in Europe’s tech sector, compared with $2.8 billion in 2011.
This capital has to be invested somewhere.
If the money invested in all American foreign interventions had been redirected to promoting prosperity domestically, Trump’s candidacy never would have gained traction.
That is why Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced that half of the extra revenues raised from the consumption-tax hike that will go into effect in 2019 will be invested in pre-school education.
One of their examples showed that Japan’s GDP per worker more than tripled relative to Argentina’s from 1960 to 1985, because Japan, unlike Argentina, invested heavily in new machinery and equipment.
China is the European Union’s second-largest trading partner after the US, and it has become a key source of direct investment, having invested over €35 billion ($41 billion) in the EU last year.
In 2012, the defense department invested $1.3 billion in electrical engineering and computer science alone, while the National Science Foundation invested another $900 million.
But, instead of buying villas, yachts, or soccer clubs abroad, he invested his fortune in Russia.
Japan’s banks invested heavily in commercial real estate and were dragged down when the property-market boom of the 1980’s went bust.
They invested 7% of GDP in expansion of the Canal, a project completed in 2016.
The dollars invested by the Marshall Plan helped achieve US objectives in reconstructing Europe, but so did the ideas transmitted by American popular culture.
In 1914, Britain’s net export of capital gave it an important financial kitty to draw upon (though some historians consider that it would have been better to have invested the money in domestic industry).
HONG KONG – Since the Cold War ended, the West has invested huge amounts of resources in efforts to induce political liberalization in China, including through programs to promote the rule of law, civil society, transparency, and government accountability.
International bankers estimate that roughly two-thirds of Chinese reserves have been invested in dollar assets.
Chinese reserves invested in these conservative financial instruments are relatively safe, but they yield little return.
Second, political paranoia is rising on the German right: everybody supposedly just wants Germany’s money; our Anglo-Saxon partners' real aim is to weaken us; and the financial markets will not rest until Germany has invested all of its wealth and has thus endangered its economic success.
In Iraq, the US invested heavily in toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime and then in supporting a political process that has produced a Shia-led government – a positive outcome, from Iran’s perspective.
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