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But one aspect of his success has been little mentioned: the investments that he, and his successors, made in education.
It is important to remember that newspapers’ investments in rapid-response investigative teams, long-form stories, and data-driven journalism are possible only because more people are paying for their news, especially through digital subscriptions.
Yes, the world needs to address global warming (mainly through higher investments in green research and development, and by promoting exploitation of cheap, less-polluting shale gas).
Huge investments have strengthened the People’s Armed Police (PAP), a large anti-riot paramilitary force whose specialty is the quick suppression of anti-government protests by disgruntled industrial workers, peasants, and urban residents.
Fourth, high private investments by business depend on high public investments in infrastructure and human capital.
Fourth, today’s investments with high social returns – such as low-carbon energy, smart power grids for cities, and information-based health systems – depend on public-private partnerships, in which public investment and public policies help to spur private investment.
Our global problem today is that the world’s financial intermediaries are not properly steering long-term saving into long-term investments.
The result is inadequate global demand (global investments falling short of global saving at full employment) and highly volatile short-term capital flows to finance consumption and real estate.
The right policy is to channel China’s high saving to increased investments in infrastructure and skills in low-income Africa and Asia.
More generally, governments should expand the role of national and multilateral development banks (including the regional development banks for Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Islamic countries) to channel long-term saving from pension funds, insurance funds, and commercial banks into long-term public and private investments in twenty-first-century industries and infrastructure.
Only long-term investments, both public and private, can lift the world economy out of its current instability and slow growth.
Most of Latin America, including Brazil, ignored public investments in R&D for decades, while East Asian countries invested heavily.
Another difference with past financial downturns in emerging markets is that investments in the EBRD region – Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, Turkey, and the former Soviet Union – have turned out to be long term, rather than short-term or speculative.
We have implemented an anti-crisis program that has concentrated on the financial sector, the real economy, and especially important infrastructure investments, particularly in the crucial area of energy efficiency.
Our investments are aimed at the development and support of market economies across the region.
Our investments are aimed at overcoming structural problems that have plagued the region.
Accounting for the value individuals place on longer and healthier lives, net returns on investments in immunization soar to some 44 times the cost.
That model depended on financial repression of the household sector, in order to drive the growth of exports and investments.
These investments are also helping to accelerate the shift from agriculture to other sources of income in some of India’s poorest states.
But Foshan is in a reasonably strong position to manage its local-government debt, because its fixed-capital investments since 2004 have amounted to roughly 30% of GDP, compared to 70% for some other local governments.
After all, past investment shortfalls have to be made up and future-oriented investments undertaken simultaneously – a double burden that must be borne by the current generation.
The investments have paid off: the global malaria mortality rate fell by 60% between 2000 and 2015.
The Spanish Government rightly proposed that true solutions to poverty require simultaneous investments in health, education, agriculture, and infrastructure, and then the Spanish put up the funds to help make that integrated vision a practical reality.
Mali is eager to scale up investments in agriculture, health, education, and infrastructure in its 166 poorest communities.
Other investments often take precedence, and donors have historically funded emergency relief much more readily than pre-disaster preparedness.
A comprehensive agreement would bring certainty to the carbon markets and strengthen the various mechanisms that are already encouraging renewables in developing economies and pump-priming private-sector investments.
Though potential sources for climate-friendly development financing now include pension funds, insurance companies, foundations, and sovereign wealth funds, what is often missing are mechanisms to ensure that investments are channeled into well-targeted and effective projects.
These instruments have all the characteristics of conventional bonds, but they are backed by investments that contribute to sustainable development or the fight against climate change.
The insurance industry has committed to double its green investments, to $84 billion, by the end of 2015.
And in September, three major pension funds from North America and Europe announced plans to increase their holdings in low-carbon investments by more than $31 billion by 2020.
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