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Given this, it is not surprising that the International Monetary Fund sounded cautious in its latest economic outlook for the Middle East, urging the governments of the oil-exporting countries to rein in hard-to-reverse expenditures and pursue high-quality capital investments and social programs.
In the wake of the global financial crisis and the eurozone’s sovereign-debt crisis, China has bought government bonds, made direct investments, and sent business delegations to Europe.
For example, Zhou indicated that the SRF will adopt at least a 15-year time horizon for investments, rather than the 7-10-year horizon adopted by many private equity firms, to account for the slower return on infrastructure investment in developing countries.
The Fund and other private and public investors – would first make joint equity investments in the project.
This may include restrictions on investments by institutions and individuals and intrusive regulation that limits, or dictates, their conduct in the market.
More surprisingly, Copenhagen’s politicians have confidently declared that cutting CO2 now will ultimately make the city and its citizens wealthier, with today’s expensive green-energy investments more than paying off when fossil-fuel prices rise.
Instead of hearing more lectures from the IMF about cutting budgets, poor countries need larger budgets to pay for the required investments - roads, power supplies, ports, schools, and health clinics - to jump-start economic growth.
The idea of the IFF is to guarantee that donor countries double their aid levels during the next decade, so that well-governed poor countries can make the investments they need to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.Brown is exactly right: let's put Africa and other impoverished regions on a path of sustained economic growth by frontloading the aid during the period until 2015.
Financial institutions need new incentives to reshape their operations, including their investments.
For example, portfolio managers could have their bonuses partly tied to their investments’ performance on climate metrics.
The International Monetary Fund has been a destabilizing factor in East Asia, not so much because of the conditions it imposed on clients, whether good or bad, as by sheltering private financial institutions from the consequences of unwise investments.
Investors are worried that the Court could oppose the ESM such that they would have to bear the losses from their bad investments.
These investments generally have the effect (in advanced and developing countries alike) of raising the return to private investment, causing the latter to expand in scale and scope, lifting employment along with it.
Multinational firms have access to abundant global supplies of relatively low-cost labor in multiple skill categories, so there is not much payoff to investments that increase labor productivity in high-income countries’ tradable sectors.
Third, we must commit to making the investments necessary to end TB, recognizing that the right thing to do also makes financial sense.
We call on others to make similar investments.
They also need to redirect the $21 billion spent in Africa on subsidies for loss-making utilities and electricity consumption – which mainly benefit the rich – toward connection subsidies and renewable-energy investments that deliver energy to the poor.
Such investments provide China with access to modern technologies and management systems – a catalyst to economic development.
Currently, such investments cost little, given low interest rates.
That trade deficit is financed by foreign investments in America, as savers the world over increase their holdings of US stocks and bonds.
That means that, over time, these governments will seek to diversify their portfolios, moving away from the current dominance of dollar investments.
But what do these arguments really mean for the outlook for investments in homes in superstar cities?Let us consider the fixity of land.
People want to believe that the boom will continue, and that their investments in their favorite city are thus special and exciting.
But there is no generally applicable reason to make aggressive investments in superstar cities.
Yet, because Americans consistently earn a higher return on their investments abroad than foreigners earn on their US investments, US debt is rising at perhaps only half the rate that it might otherwise.
It is discouraging investments in the green economy.
Governments in rich countries are beginning to spell out just what that will mean in terms of policy and lifestyle changes and the investments required to develop clean energy sources.
Hence, big investments in energy services are the order of the day throughout the developing world.
It is now possible to expand access to energy in developing countries while also limiting emissions – if investments are channeled into clean energy.
Already, investments in clean energy are soaring as the cost of producing it plunges.
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