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But it is exposed to other risks, especially if it confines its investments to that slice of the asset pool, US Treasury and high-grade corporate bonds, that American politicians are comfortable having foreigners own.
The volatile stock market and the renminbi’s “surprise” depreciation are signs of imminent economic collapse, according to this view, as risky investments and high levels of government debt put the brakes on decades of turbo-charged output growth.
Compare that scenario with the way that multinationals finance infrastructure investments.
With greater investments, it will be possible to raise farm yields, lower energy use to heat and cool buildings, achieve greater fuel efficiency for cars, and more.
With new investments in research and development, still further improvements in technologies can be achieved.
Yet investments in new resource-saving technologies are not being made at a sufficient scale, because market signals don’t give the right incentives, and because governments are not yet cooperating adequately to develop and spread their use.
(Farmers have been promised cheap electricity for years – so cheap that private-sector power supplies are loath to make new investments.)
This strategy should include significant investments in human capital: education, training, and basic scientific research.
Local governments are saddled with a mountain of debt and wasted investments, banks accumulate risky loans, and farmers lose their land.
These include a temporary tax deferral on unrealized capital gains; a step-up in basis on the capital gains earned and reinvested in such funds; and a permanent exclusion from taxes on capital gains earned on fund investments held for ten years or more.
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.”
Moreover, unlike the “Empowerment Zones” introduced by the Clinton administration in 1994, the OZ program does not include grants, loan guarantees, and other fiscal tools to finance investments in training, infrastructure, affordable housing, and local services.
Leading “impact investment” firms such as DBL Partners, Omidyar Network, and Bridges already provide this kind of comprehensive reporting on their own investments; and the Impact Management Project, a corporate consortium, can offer additional guidance.
Mutual and other private-sector funds require minimum terms for investments, and such mandatory lock-up periods should be applied to capital inflows as well.
It is true that not all debt is created equal, and there is a strong case for adding more of it if the purpose is to finance highly productive infrastructure investments.
Buffett is famous for his canny investments, but such a return – in development terms – is as phenomenal as any business achievement.
The Gates Foundation has a sharp-eyed focus on powerful investments that can achieve astounding results at low cost.
These certainly are important topics; but the SDGs are supposed to provide signposts to the most vital investments.
But the most compelling argument for sustaining and increasing spending on development aid is to focus on the best investments first.
That day may be approaching, but, in the meantime, there are worrisome signs that China’s trade and investments in North Korea, the latest of which is a Chinese supermarket in which local currency can be traded at free-market (that is, black-market) rates, could oddly make China dependent on the North.
In September, the Treasury Department provided new regulations to philanthropic foundations that relaxed the perceived barriers to “mission-related investments.”
It was an important move: Foundations oversee some $600 billion, but had long worried that certain social-impact investments might jeopardize their tax-free status.
More securitization, easier online trading, and other financial-market developments in recent years have facilitated greater speculative investments, especially in commodity futures and options markets.
As the financial crisis deepened and spread from late 2007, speculators began investing in commodities, and the dollar’s decline relative to other currencies has also induced such investments.
These investments are needed in the short term to offset the decline in worldwide consumption spending that underlies the global recession.
In practice, the global crisis means that sustainable investments are being curtailed rather than expanded in the developing world.
In fact, every part of the world has a huge backlog of vital infrastructure investments.
Developed countries should agree to channel considerable savings to developing countries to finance the scale-up of sustainable investments.
If governments are not willing to put in the work, their investments will not be worthwhile.
At the very least, it should create tax incentives for research and development, as well as for equity investments.
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