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In this context, the recent decision by a coalition of institutional investors to measure and disclose the carbon footprint of at least $500 billion in investments is a step forward.
When the crisis hit, both kinds of spending plummeted, and the investments that should have picked up the slack never materialized.
As a result, the overall quality of investments has dropped, while leverage has risen.
As monetary policy was being pushed to its limits, what went missing was an increase in long-term investments in high-speed rail, roads, ports, low-carbon energy, safe water and sanitation, and health and education.
The world needs massive investments in low-carbon energy systems, and an end to the construction of new coal-fired power plants.
And it needs massive investments in electric vehicles (and advanced batteries), together with a sharp reduction in internal combustion engine vehicles.
The developing world, in particular, also needs major investments in water and sanitation projects in fast-growing urban areas.
Although African countries have already identified priority investments for electrification and transport, progress will remain slow without a new wave of investment spending.
In fact, we are controlling disease – polio, malaria, and AIDS – better than ever before, and making big new investments in women’s and children’s health – the key to progress in many other areas.
Recognizing that global recovery depends on the emerging economies – that is, the developing world – G-20 leaders embraced investments aimed at lifting the world’s most vulnerable people out of poverty.
The Global HomeHomes are the most local of investments, rooted to a particular place like a tree, and thus thriving or withering in response to local economic conditions.
Nevertheless, it will require some adjustment for New Yorkers seeking to hedge their own real estate investments to sell futures contracts that have a built-in price decline.
With the US able to borrow at record-low interest rates, and with the promise of high returns on public investments after a decade of neglect, it is clear what it should do.
But financial markets demonstrated their shortsightedness in the years preceding the crisis, and are doing so once again, by applying pressure for spending cuts, even if that implies reducing badly needed public investments.
One option that we have identified is to account for public investments as they depreciate, rather than at the time of capital formation, thereby unlocking up to €140 billion ($157 billion) annually.
The Rift Valley Railway project, which will eventually link Mombasa on the Kenyan coast to Kampala in Uganda, is a good example of the benefits that investments in transportation could provide.
As they make these investments, policymakers must not forget that much of Africa’s recent growth can be credited to good macroeconomic policies and sound economic management.
Rosneft, for example, has been forced to abandon its most value-destroying investments, such as petrochemicals.
It found these in the US, mainly in the form Treasury and other government-backed securities, in turn pushing other investors into more speculative investments.
By creating detailed profiles of the most promising urban opportunities, companies could target their investments more effectively.
The advantage of income-tax increases is that they could be based not just on current income, but on some average of income over the course of years, and could allow deductions for investments, thus sharing some features with wealth taxes without penalizing those who saved more to accumulate more wealth.
Moreover, a declining share of the European food market and diminished investments in real estate undermine the capacity of agriculture and construction to absorb young workers.
What leaders – both within and outside the region – can do is pursue large-scale and intelligent investments in primary and secondary education, small and medium-size businesses (which form the backbone of Arab economies), and renewable energy sources (which could underpin the upgrading of regional value chains).
They are, of course, looking at Bitcoin as potential investments.
Widespread ideas about major public investments financed by bloating deficits should be forgotten.
Public infrastructure investments displace private investments and the taxes necessary to finance them introduce further distortions in demand.
Fulfilling these ambitions will require efficiency-boosting investments, particularly in infrastructure.
Doing so will require national governments, industry, aid organizations, and other NGOs to make the most of their investments.
In the face of rising climate and disaster risk, investments in nature-based solutions can protect lives and safeguard prosperity in a cost-effective manner – all while preserving imperiled natural ecosystems around the world.
It did not seem to produce many efficiency gains, despite enormous investments in information technology.
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