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In Finland, for example, ten years of sustained public funding is now catalyzing private investments and fueling regular increases in R&D budgets.
Public funding of basic research and industrial investments are both needed to achieve long-term technological development.
But in many cases – Turing’s decision is just one egregious example – higher prices do not reflect investments in innovation.
At the close of the Cold War, Central and Eastern Europe’s economies were burdened by pervasive state ownership and concentrated investments in heavy industry.
But, provided that the returns are positive, such investments are still worth making.
Now is the time to rethink our public-health investments and messaging, and evaluate whether we are getting the best value for our donor dollars, or whether we should do much more to tackle diseases that we have so far largely ignored.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s new grand coalition government may not look like a reliable security partner, but does that mean France should hold out until Germany has made good on its legacy defense debt before considering defense investments and mutualization in Europe?
The idea that stocks will perform well in the future has many promoters today, especially among those trying to sell investments in stocks.
The most fundamental problem is that, in examining stock market investments, we are selecting an economic activity because it was a consistent success in the past.
Since 2008, SOEs and so-called local-government financing platforms have been using loans to fund massive fixed-asset investments, while private-sector actors have been borrowing – often from the shadow-banking sector – to finance investment in real-estate development.
In the longer term, the authorities must put in place stricter regulations to ensure that local-government infrastructure investments are sustainable and do not depend excessively on revenue from land sales.
At any time, your investments, profits, and hard work may be taxed away to feed the dead hand of past lenders.
This undercuts the government’s ability to make forward-thinking investments in areas like education and infrastructure.
As the World Bank report shows, with the right investments and policies, countries can now meet a large share of their electricity needs from variable renewable energy without compromising the reliability of the grid or the affordability of electricity.
These investments include energy storage, improved forecasting systems, and smart grids – all of which have benefited from breakthroughs in technology and falling prices.
The Philippines, which brought the case against China in The Hague, is beefing up its military as well, with the procurement of fighter jets from South Korea and new investments in its navy, supported not only by the US, but also by Japan.
In the run-up to the PCA’s decision, China drummed up support in far-flung African countries, where it has investments, and among more easily influenced members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, such as Brunei, Cambodia, and Laos.
Globally, debt securities issued by non-financial corporations – which are supposed to undertake fixed investments – increased significantly during the same period.
The most tangible element of the EU’s emerging energy-policy framework is the internal energy market, which, once completed, will allow for the unimpeded flow of energy and related investments throughout the EU.
Its investments have already helped to lower global prices of renewables.
By contrast, branded products, into which producers have sunk major investments in securing the market, have prices that are much stickier and do not reflect the effects of monetary policy as rapidly.
In fact, through smarter asset management, cities could more than double their investments without having to raise taxes or cut spending.
Even with a modest yield, Boston could more than double its infrastructure investments.
Might this money be better directed toward investments that reduce or prevent conflict?
That can change, but only with concrete investments in homegrown talent.
And by 2030, investments in new gas projects across G20 countries are expected to surpass $1.6 trillion.
The fact that most new investments in gas production assume at least a 30-year operational timeline should be evidence enough that they are not geared toward reducing emissions anytime soon.
In many places, wind energy is already competitively priced, and it has attracted almost half (48%) of all G-20 clean-energy investments in recent years, fueling the addition of some 40 gigawatts of generating capacity – enough to power 30 million homes.
The 17 GW of solar-generation capacity that was added in 2010 from investments totaling $79 billion could power more than 12.5 million homes.
Last fall, Germany’s environment ministry reported that renewable-energy jobs had doubled since 2004, to 340,000, thanks to the country’s investments in education, training, research, and innovation.
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