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And, unlike many of its developing-country rivals, China has ample fiscal space, household savings, and foreign-exchange reserves for such investments.
The investments will generate jobs, household income, and consumption.
Moreover, making the transition requires investments in human capital that individuals often cannot afford.
In order to facilitate this economic rebalancing and ameliorate its social consequences, they also need targeted public investments, co-financed at the European level.
This would allow banks to refinance green-sector investments, thus freeing up bank capital for further lending.
Productive investments in areas such as infrastructure and knowledge, can not only stimulate growth and employment in the short term, but also are a necessary condition for long-term prosperity.
The sooner we have such an agreement in place, the sooner we will see the green investments and green growth we so badly need.
Without sustained investments in human capital and institution-building, growth is condemned to peter out.
And, alongside obvious waste, China makes many high-return investments – in the excellent urban infrastructure of the first-tier cities, and in the automation equipment of private firms responding to rising real wages.
Sudan, which supplies 7% of China’s total oil imports, has benefited from the largest Chinese investments.
For China, those flaws include a weak social safety net, which has raised savings rates, and the backwardness of a state banking system that has lowered investments and sent excess savings abroad.
Specifically, the Bank should become a prime mover in fostering investments to promote environmental sustainability; supporting research in agriculture, health, and clean energy; and collecting and analyzing economic and social data.
But it can help by setting priorities, raising and channeling funds, and assessing the impact of relevant investments.
There is no simple way to monitor the quality and efficiency of a charity – especially one devoted to long-term changes (that is, investments) rather than daily delivery of services.
Implementing policies to facilitate and reward long-term investments will be key to exiting the current crisis and boosting the world’s growth potential.
In short, as we argued during the OECD Forum and annual Ministerial Council Meeting last week, this time we need to promote investments that focus on people and the planet.
But efforts to overcome at least four – high unemployment, an aging workforce, climate change, and infrastructure deficiencies – would benefit significantly from policies promoting long-term investments.
These types of investments continue to be beneficial throughout a worker’s life, as exposure to new skills and knowledge allows him or her to adapt to an evolving technological and business environment.
The solution is relatively simple, provided the presence of political will: By putting a price on carbon and repealing policies that incentivize fossil-fuel consumption, investments can be channeled into the creation of a low-carbon economy, including the necessary clean-energy infrastructure.
Tools that could be used to leverage institutional investments include public-private partnerships to develop clear and transparent project pipelines for major green infrastructure projects, green banks and green bonds, and instruments that mitigate risk and enhance the availability of credit.
But we also need to acknowledge that billions of dollars have been spent on well-meaning attempts to save lives, with an alarming lack of high-quality evaluation of how these investments have performed.
They were asked to examine what could be achieved with extra investments in six key areas: prevention of sexual transmission, reduction of non-sexual transmission, treatment of those who have the disease, initiatives to use social policy and health-system strengthening to fight HIV/AIDS, and vaccine research.
Among worthwhile investments, some are very costly and achieve little good; others are remarkably cheap and incredibly effective.
The panel zeroed in on five investments that they believe should be at the top of policymakers’ lists.
By highlighting sound investments – including some that are not currently at the top of policymakers’ to-do lists – RethinkHIV makes the case in economic terms for doing just that.
As rapidly as the large, modern firms improved, through investments in technology and skills, the economy was dragged down by its unproductive small firms.
At other times, governments need more proactive strategies – such as tax incentives, special investment zones, or hyper-competitive currencies – to raise the profitability of such investments.
First, the value of financial institutions’ investments should immediately be marked down to their market values.
That said, one can ask what the economic and social returns on these investments will be.
Europe has a real chance to conclude a bargain: member countries implement fiscal and structural reforms in exchange for short-run relaxation of fiscal constraints – not to increase liabilities, but to focus on growth-oriented investments to jump-start sustained recovery.
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