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And that raises serious questions about the wisdom of China’s massive investments in dollar-denominated assets.
And yet nutrition is one of the best investments we can make, with every $1 invested in nutrition yielding $16 in returns.
Unless African governments start making smart choices and smart investments, the continent may face a similar fate.
There is plenty to learn from public investments that were mission-oriented, instead of focused on “facilitating” or “incentivizing” business.
Ensuring future advances will require direct policy interventions and investments in innovation across the entire innovation chain: basic research, applied research, and early-stage company financing.
Unions are key to effective corporate governance and hence should be more involved in innovation policy, pressing for investments in education and training – the long-run drivers of wages.
They gave greater weight to investments in people, launching innovative initiatives to bring health care and access to finance to more of their citizens, and creating social funds to help develop local communities.
Finally, despite all the warnings about moral hazard, Western banks have been partly bailed out of their bad investments.
The eurozone provides the only large capital market other than the US for such investments.
Advocates suggest that there is a significant “energy-efficiency gap”: governments and businesses have overlooked and forgone investments that could significantly reduce energy consumption at low cost.
Current investments in energy supply amount to more than $1.6 trillion annually, with $130 billion going to energy efficiency and $250 billion to renewables.
CAMBRIDGE – Chinese officials and private investors around the world have been worrying aloud about whether their dollar investments are safe.
That is a big accounting loss, but it doesn’t change the value of the American goods or property investments in the US that the Chinese could buy with their trillion dollars.
So the good news is that dollar investments are safe.
If the dollar is likely to fall against the euro over the next several years, investments in euro-denominated bonds issued by the German or French governments may provide higher safe returns.
In other words, the focus of global public-health strategies and investments should shift toward reducing the structural disparities between rich and poor countries, in terms of their capacity for medical research and public-health implementation.
With more green investments coming to the fore, those financing them will, we should hope, counterbalance powerful lobbying by the coal industry, which is willing to put the world at risk to advance its shortsighted interests.
As analysts at Stratfor Global Intelligence put it, “Unless the Kremlin is willing to let Russian companies default on their debts or make bigger cuts to their current operations or future investments in the coming years, Moscow will need to convince the Europeans to let at least the harshest sanctions expire.”
These growth- and productivity-enhancing investments should be financed primarily from domestic savings, though some can also be financed with debt.
Long-term, stable infrastructure investments can be financed at least partly by international development institutions.
Our economists estimate the costs of each policy, along with their social, environmental, and economic benefits, in order to show which investments deliver the highest return.
Fear causes individuals to restrain their spending and firms to withhold investments; as a result, the economy weakens, confirming their fear and leading them to restrain spending further.
Instead, Yi Gang, China’s director of state administration of foreign exchange, explained that “Chinese investments in US Treasuries are market investment behavior, and we don’t wish to politicize them.”
Indeed, Beijing Airport’s’s shiny Terminal 3, and more recently, China’s alternative-energy investments, relied on billions of euros in European public loans.
Of course – indeed, above all – in such circumstances the immense investments needed to overcome underdevelopment and the disabilities that it entails are increasingly forgotten by the world of international finance.
A recent ten-year analysis of 300 start-up investments backed by venture capitalists in the United States showed that companies with a female founder performed 63% better than those with all-male founding teams.
These fiscal improvements have freed up funds for sizable investments in education, without adding to public debt.
For example, Chad’s yearly oil earnings, at $2 billion, now account for 40-50% of its annual budget, and small-scale business, indirect investments, human-resources development, and other incidental benefits are likely to follow.
First, there was a hard-money lobby: a substantial number of rich, socially influential, and politically powerful people whose investments were overwhelmingly in bonds.
In case of panic, a good policy should help banks that have enough assets to cover their deposits but that can't pay all depositors at the same time because some assets are tied up in real estate or other long-term investments.
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