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Of course, this approach looks quite different from the perspective of migrants’ home countries, which lose not only valuable skilled labor, but also any resources invested in that labor, say, through the education system.
Most of Latin America, including Brazil, ignored public investments in R&D for decades, while East Asian countries invested heavily.
According to the International Monetary Fund, in 2016, $12 billion in foreign funding had been promised for various projects, but only $2.1 billion had been invested.
To succeed, more than €30 billion, or 1% of GDP, will have to be invested annually in network infrastructure, renewable-energy generation, combined heat and power systems, and storage technologies in the coming decades.
Demand for our loans and project finance is higher than ever: in the first nine months of 2009, we have invested more than €6 billion, twice as much as we did in the same period a year ago.
According to Standard and Poor’s, for example, “The rating on EFSF reflects our view that guarantees by ‘AAA’ rated sovereigns and freely available liquidity reserves invested in ‘AAA’ securities will, between them, cover all of EFSF’s liabilities.”
If invested in infrastructure, education, and external financial assets, natural-resource revenues can accelerate growth.
And China’s diplomacy in Sudan, where it has invested massively in developing the country’s oil resources, will be a test of whether or not it intends to be a responsible stakeholder in Africa and the wider world.
As the US current-account deficit rose over the past half-decade, international economists have lined up to predict doom: returns on assets invested in the US are relatively low, so at some point - probably all at once - holders of dollar-denominated securities will realize that the risk of suffering a major crash in value is not being adequately compensated.
For less expensive shoes, with lower sums invested in the intangible parts of the production process, this figure was not as high, but still more than 50%.
But it is also accomplished by privatization of social security such that the mandatory contributions are taken out of the hands of government and invested for the future rather than dissipated in current spending.
Second, governments have to start running budget surpluses and use privatization to set aside revenues that can be invested to meet future claims.
And, though the issue raises obvious questions of justice and efficiency – poor countries, having invested large sums in education, now produce graduates who take jobs and pay taxes abroad – Europe has provided little in the way of an effective response.
Thus, governments are invested with unique powers, especially the powers of policing and judicial control.
When Tigar sold its tire division to France’s Michelin, it invested the entire proceeds in new businesses.
Most of these funds are now invested in dollar securities.
In the United States alone, the $3.8 billion in public funds invested in the Human Genome Project has already generated close to $1 trillion in economic returns and more than 300,000 jobs.
Hedge funds have borrowed hundreds of billions of dollars at ultra-low interest rate in Japan, and invested the proceeds in countries like Brazil and Turkey, where interest rates are high.
In 2013, roughly $1.6 trillion was invested in energy infrastructure worldwide, with about 70% going to systems that depend on burning fossil fuels and the rest going to clean energy.
As prices continue to fall and technologies mature, each dollar invested produces more power.
The $270 billion invested in renewable energy in 2014 created 36% more generating capacity than the $279 billion invested in 2011.
Historically, federal, state, and local governments have together invested about 2.5% of GDP in non-defense infrastructure assets.
According to research by Argentina’s Socio-environmental and Energy Justice Alliance, although oil and gas companies operating in Vaca Muerta in 2016 invested less than they did in 2015 and provided 3,000 fewer jobs, they received higher earnings.
Imagine that a sophisticated trading firm has invested significant resources to develop an algorithm that quickly evaluates the potential market impact of news, and then automatically sends orders to trade based on that predicted impact.
In Indonesia, the government invested oil revenue in the massive and rapid expansion of basic social services, including health care.
The protesters, complaining that the $11 billion spent on new stadiums and other World Cup-related infrastructure would be better invested in improving Brazil’s poor public services, were met with official violence.
Singapore has invested enough in its military defense to make itself seem as indigestible as “a poisoned shrimp” to neighbors that it wishes to deter.
The funds raised from the initiative would be invested in Ecuador’s alternative-energy industry, with the goal of changing the country’s entire energy matrix.
The eventual returns from the new energy systems would then be invested in social and environmental programs.
In 2006, Brazil invested $28.2 billion abroad, compared to inflows of $18.8 billion.
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