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Any increase in Iraqi oil production requires developing the oil fields, which means big investments, a legal and representative government, and political stability.
Beyond that, here is what Americans should hope for: a strong “jobs” bill – based on investments in education, health care, technology, and infrastructure – that would stimulate the economy, restore growth, reduce unemployment, and generate tax revenues far in excess of its costs, thus improving the country’s fiscal position.
Japan is deploying vast government aid and private-sector engagement reminiscent of its investments in China at the height of Japanese global economic power in the 1980’s.
Aside from Mexico, countries such as Chile, Colombia, and Peru are well positioned to gain from investments in institution-building.But, of course, new institutions can take decades, and sometimes longer, to consolidate.
On the contrary, they typically get significantly lower returns than Americans get on their investments abroad.
The net result is that money is being parked temporarily in low-yield investments in the US, although this cannot be the long-run trend.
When Greece imploded, the investments turned sour, and the Cypriot banks that had engaged in this strategy became insolvent.
And that is precisely the goal of negative interest rates: In a world where supply outstrips demand and too much saving chases too few productive investments, the equilibrium interest rate is low, if not negative.
A dominant pattern in both the US and Latin America has been the resistance of the dominant white communities to sharing in the financing of public investments in the “human capital” (health and education) of the black and indigenous communities.
In the longer term, the spread of democracy in Latin America promises not only fairer societies, but also economically more dynamic societies, through increased public investments in health, education, and job skills.
Bolivia would do well to follow the example of its eastern neighbor, Brazil, which has experienced a surge in educational and scientific investments since its democratization in the 1980’s.
In a clear case of technological leapfrogging, they have given poor people in developing countries access to long-distance communications without the need for costly investments in landlines and other infrastructure.
When they demand complementary and costly investments, they are no longer a shortcut around manufacturing-led development.
The European Socialists will also have to define a more ambitious budget strategy, with higher spending for research, education, and other social investments, develop an industrial policy that transcends the simplistic logic of competitiveness, affirm a legal framework for European public services, and support greater EU-wide social and fiscal homogeneity.
Such investments require complementary steps by the public and private sectors.
The necessary investments include large-scale deployment of solar and wind power; broader adoption of electric transport, both public (buses and trains) and private (cars); energy-efficient buildings; and power grids to carry renewable energy across large distances (say, from the North Sea and North Africa to continental Europe, and from California’s Mojave Desert to US population centers).
But just when our societies should be making such investments, the public sectors in the US and Europe are on a veritable “investment strike.”
Neo-Keynesians see investments, public and private, as merely another kind of aggregate demand.
There is also the option of using domestic saving to boost foreign investments.
Instead of advising Japan and China to raise their consumption rates, macroeconomists would be wiser to encourage these economies to use their high savings to fund not only domestic but also overseas investments.
Privatization advocates insist, however, that investments in stocks would yield sufficiently higher returns to provide individuals the same retirement income as before, with the surplus used to fill the gap.
Of course, investors who don’t want to tie up their funds in low-yielding government bonds can buy explicit inflation hedges as an overlay to their other investments.
Nor is a Marshall Plan-type program of grand investments sufficient.
The problem is that such long-term investments bring results only in the medium and long term.
Finance needs to be directed more rapidly and decisively away from natural-resource-intensive and polluting investments and toward green opportunities.
There are many reasons for this, including the complexity of education investments, weak global governance, and – of course – money.
This implies that investments in education and skills training, while necessary, will not be sufficient to reduce inequality.
The idea is that, by monetizing the fiscal deficit, the central bank helps the government to finance growth-enhancing investments in, say, infrastructure, while providing the liquidity needed to counter deflationary forces.
Participants at the two events called for setting a price on carbon, phasing out fossil-fuel subsidies, more partnerships with governments, and the coupling of public and private finance to diffuse the risks of low-carbon investments.
America’s current-account deficit, which was an alarming 5.8% of GDP as recently as 2006, has now shrunk to just 2.7% of GDP – a level that the US can easily finance from its royalty income and returns on prior foreign investments without incurring additional foreign debt.
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