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When drought returned this year, these investments paid off.
Ghana, for example, drastically reduced both poverty and hunger over the past 25 years by focusing on agricultural investments.
At a time of intense debate over budgets, people around the world must remember that these kinds of investments not only save lives, improve livelihoods, and promote stability, but also save money in the long run.
But haven’t similar capital investments and soaring property prices also been an increasingly important part of China’s transformation since the 1990’s?
Just as the conventional wisdom that all networked water and sanitation systems are good investments can be wrong, it can be wrong in assuming that all dams are bad investments.
With it, policymakers can prioritize goals and investments; map existing resources and identify budget gaps; and establish mechanisms for sharing data and information across sectors.
The “Juncker Plan” for targeted EU-wide investments can be a part of the solution, but it will not be enough.
As it stands now, large-scale industrial meat producers are profiting extensively from EU subsidies; but these subsidies could be redirected as investments in decentralized meat and grain production chains that adhere to a more sustainable model.
But these investments brought no economic trickle down.
In the last couple of decades, the country has made great strides in export-led growth, supported by a growing industrial sector and large investments from China.
But reducing uncertainty about prices by keeping the inflation target at 2% or more might actually increase a sense of uncertainty about real things like home values or investments.
For example, in 2014, Modi not only welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to his hometown, Ahmedabad, on his own birthday; on that same trip, he also lifted the previous government’s restrictions on Chinese investments in sensitive sectors of the Indian economy, such as ports and telecoms.
African governments should give priority to investments in technical education and HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care, and support programs.
Following World War II, and especially after the Soviet Union’s launch of the Sputnik satellite in 1957, the US made massive investments in electrical engineering and, later, computer science.
The US government also made massive, continuous investments in university-based research, boosting the country’s supply of engineers and scientists.
Many centrists agree that an optimal fiscal policy would feature short-term stimulus, a multi-year medium-term deficit reduction plan, and measures to reduce long-term liabilities, especially if retrenchment protected growth-oriented public-sector investments.
Notably, the business sector is asked to take a more active role to reduce its carbon footprint, commit to 100% renewable energy and zero emissions, shift investments into renewable energy, adopt more sustainable business models, and assist in the divestment from fossil fuels.
Profit margins have expanded to record highs as companies have cut costs, delayed infrastructure investments, borrowed at ultra-low rates, and taken advantage of weak labor markets to avoid raising wages.
Against this backdrop, the wealthiest Americans are unlikely to enjoy substantial further profits from their financial investments in the near term.
And now China’s leaders are increasingly taking that strategy inland, making critical investments in physical and human capital.
But the effectiveness of these investments will depend on the sequence and rate of their implementation, and on how skillfully they are adapted to each locality’s distinct resources, needs, and aspirations.
Making large initial investments would help tip the economic, political, and social dynamics away from xenophobia and disaffection, and toward constructive outcomes that benefit refugees and the recipient countries alike.
The necessary investments include an overhaul of the EU’s asylum policy and improvement of its border controls.
Once growth resumed in Argentina, its GDP warrants became some of the best investments in the developing world, generating a total return of more than 500% over the last five years.
Labor unions should negotiate with management about providing appropriate risk management to their employees in financial forms: the right kinds of insurance, options, and other investments to protect them realistically without guaranteeing their employment and without jeopardizing the productivity of the firm.
Among the highlights of my career were early investments in Google and Amazon, and being a mentor to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg from 2006 to 2010.
Panama, by contrast, took the risk of imagining some key strategic, export-oriented investments, and then focused on creating the conditions to make them happen.
But policymakers did not shy away from large strategic public investments when needed, as in the case of the Canal expansion or the airport.
Such a confrontation need not block progress on other issues, such as border security, investments in industries of the future, taxation of US tech giants, and the defense of multilateralism.
First, he is negotiating side deals with holdout senators to cushion the economic impact on coal states and to increase US investments in the research and development, and eventually adoption, of clean-coal technologies.
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