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Although full pricing of carbon would be a far better way to address climate change, most governments apparently prefer to rely on subsidies and regulations that increase the profitability of investments in renewable energy.
In the short term, he suggests that countries with reserve currencies spend more (especially to finance public-sector investments) and issue more debt.
Chinese investments increasingly took the form of official purchases of US Treasury bills.
These investments did not create new resources to provide the means of repayment.
All the pro-saving shibboleths must be suspended until a revived Japanese economy restores business expectations and investments.
But were investments in their markets oversold?
The current situation, in which speculative booms have driven the world economy – and, having collapsed, are now driving it into recession – suggests that there may have been a lot of bad faith by people promoting certain investments.
The BEC heralds a new level of public-private partnership, with the investors working with the governments of some 20 countries – including the China, India, and the US – that already account for roughly 80% of global investment in clean energy and have now pledged to double their investments.
But long-term investments will not solve the immediate crisis.
One essential condition is setting a robust carbon price of $25 per ton of CO2 in order to unleash the large private-sector investments that are necessary to finance the transition to a low-carbon economy.
The economic purpose is to re-channel private saving from deficits to productivity enhancing investments.
Standard economics says that this switch will, at least temporarily and modestly, augment growth -- provided that the Fed makes sure that fiscal cutbacks are not wasted in recession and unemployment, and that expenditure cuts are not in public investments with high social productivity.
It is difficult to turn on and off the billion-dollar multiyear investments in traditional oil and gas fields; but shale wells are smaller, cheaper, and easier to start and stop as prices change.
Therefore, the countries closest to Western Europe have received the largest flows of foreign investments from Western Europe, and have also been able to expand their exports to the European Community.
Russia's investments in technology were quickly wiped out, causing a further loss of income.
Such countries took advantage of their favorable geography to attract large-scale investments from Western Europe.
America can and should, for example, become the global leader combating climate change through major investments in alternative energy, conservation, and energy efficiency, and by taking strong actions at home to reduce America’s greenhouse gas emissions.
The economist Nouriel Roubini has predicted that China’s economy will most likely slow sometime between 2013 and 2015, the point at which its fixed-asset investments of nearly 50% of GDP will demand social and monetary returns.
The enormous investments launched in China’s interior as part of the government’s stimulus program following the 2008 global financial crisis have now become a burden and are increasingly showing up as bad debt on the balance sheets of the country’s banks.
Meanwhile, China is making major investments in poorer countries, but in ways that the US and Europe consider anathema.
Yet official US aid to Africa is only $3 billion per year, and much of that covers salaries for American consultants rather than investments in Africa’s needs.
Indeed, in order to make such investments, democracies require either brave leadership or an electorate that understands the costs of postponing hard choices.
In India, two mini-grid developers, Husk Power Systems and OMC Power, recently secured a total of $30 million in new investments, while Yoma Micro Power netted $28 million.
The wiser course, however, is to make the necessary investments today, thereby averting a much larger bill tomorrow.
Add to this total the substantial spending by China, Arab states, and Latin American countries in the form of investments and loans, and it is clear that flows of ODA toward the developing world have reached unprecedented levels.
Guarantees, soft loans, and equity investments backed by development aid can help attract investors, as has occurred with solar energy projects in Mali and manufacturing plants in Ethiopia.
It can quickly scale up and make large investments in new markets – including for education – without bureaucratic delays, while building on proven models and international experience.
It maintains the country’s improved relations with the IMF, and it has even approved an agreement with the US to guarantee investments.
Last year, the NHS in England spent £1 billion ($1.28 billion) purchasing medicines that have received investments from the UK Medical Research Council and other public bodies.
The most vulnerable firms are generally those with the highest public profile, those making the largest or most visible investments, those that are major sponsors of the Games, and those with some specific connection to Chinese government policies in Tibet.
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