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The main innovations were based on the perception that urban development is a collective task in which local government should orient and induce private investments to achieve more livable cities.
And the World Bank has indicated that a country’s ability to borrow from it could eventually be tied to investments in human capital, including health spending.
The question is whether companies also will finally devote more cash to new investments in plant, equipment, and people – a key source of support for the global economy.
In this scenario, investments in protecting a watershed would aim not just to produce returns directly, but also to boost the returns of simultaneous investments in human health.
It is no coincidence that one of the World Bank’s largest lending portfolios – $35 billion worth of investments – comprises water projects.
But the study didn’t cover the potential benefits of employing insecticide-treated nets as a tool for fighting malaria, ruling out a comparison of the two investments’ returns.
In a world of limited resources, policymakers must prioritize their investments, including by differentiating the necessary from the desirable.
Among other things, Basel III stipulates that banks do not have to set aside cash against their investments in government bonds with ratings of AA- or higher.
Moreover, investments in bonds issued by their home governments require no buffer, regardless of the rating.
Just ten years ago, the natural-gas industry was so sure that domestic production was reaching its limit that it made large investments in terminals to import liquefied natural gas (LNG).
Moreover, in a relatively high-growth economy, ostensibly high debt levels are not necessarily a problem, as long as that debt is being used to fund investments that either yield high returns or create assets worth more than the debt.
To address it, China must reform its investment and financial systems, so that low- or negative-return investments are screened out more reliably.
And there is some potential for abuse, with expenditures being misclassified as investments.
This capital does not finance investments or fuel economic growth; its sole purpose is to reap enormous but unpredictable profits for a select few.
Changing weather patterns and the increasing magnitude and frequency of extreme weather events will require substantial investments if farmers are to adapt successfully.
These countries will jointly seek to develop a bigger presence in Asian markets, and to offer developed countries a safe option for capital investments in emerging markets.
While we have become familiar with China’s ardent interest in natural resources such as oil, coal, steel, copper, and soybeans, we are far less acquainted with other kinds of Chinese investments, including outright acquisitions of foreign companies.
Here the US has not yet shown itself to be a particularly hospitable environment for Chinese investments.
We are now talking about real money: nearly $1 trillion of US imports and an equivalent amount of US export sales and foreign investments.
Ordinary Vietnamese, taking matters into their own hands, reacted even more vigorously, by rioting and targeting Chinese industrial investments for attack.
Renewed protests over China’s mining investments in Myanmar this week confirmed this trend, one that China’s leaders seem either to dismiss as trivial, or to regard as somehow unrelated to their bullying.
Studies show that when life expectancy is low, so too are many kinds of investments in the future, such as school attendance, personal saving by households, and foreign investments.
It was U.S. investment in eradicating hookworms from its Southern states in the early 20th century that improved health conditions in the American South, and which helped to bring about a boom in investments in that previously impoverished region.
Although peace, political stability, and civil order are important factors to consider when selecting a location for a large-scale foreign production or service operation, they are far less important when it comes to sourcing creativity and making the related investments.
When the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1, the world’s first man-made satellite, on October 4, 1957, the achievement sent shock waves through the US government, which responded with huge investments in rocket technology, research, and education.
Not only is the Trump administration failing to support innovation; it is also actively derailing investments in tech-related research.
In particular, investments in regional development via the “one belt, one road” initiative and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank may produce expanded trade and growth in Asia (and beyond), though the effects will not be immediate.
Credit to the state sector ends up flowing not into productivity-enhancing investments, but into the housing market (fueling price bubbles) and industries with excess capacity (fueling even more overcapacity and enabling companies to avoid much-needed restructuring).
While LGFVs use the low-cost loans to build infrastructure, the social returns of those investments are often low; and, after decades of rapid infrastructure construction, the marginal returns are declining.
Developed countries are thus morally obliged to pay partial compensation to poor and vulnerable countries and regions to cover part of the cost of the investments needed to adapt to climate change.
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