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Unlike his father, King Hassan II, Mohammed has supported the region’s indigenous Berber culture, and made investments to turn the Rif coastal region into a manufacturing hub.
And record-low interest rates are putting pressure on funded systems, in which the return from earlier investments pays for retirement benefits.
A government-appointed commission recently concluded that managers have generated high gross real returns on investments: from 1981 to 2013, the annual average was 8.6%; but high fees cut net returns to savers to around 3% per year over that period.
That is why the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was designed for maximum flexibility, allowing funds to be channeled into non-profits, directed into private investments, or used to help influence policy debates.
Similarly, the BEC has pledged to boost the work of others by taking “a flexible approach to early stage, providing seed, angel and Series A investments, with the expectation that once these investments are de-risked, traditional commercial capital will invest in the later stages.”
Another promising opportunity are investments in the riskiest stage of the development process for new drugs: the phase between basic research and human clinical trials, which has traditionally struggled to attract funding.
There is a strong desire on the part of many in the finance industry to make investments that improve the world.
Beyond those baseline investments, the plan also establishes a framework for engagement between Africa and its northern neighbors.
But the new competition between EU member states and a non-member UK could lead to renewed investments in science and technology within those countries.
In the past year, the world has seen another boom, with a tsunami of capital, portfolio equity, and fixed-income investments surging into emerging-market countries perceived as having strong macroeconomic, policy, and financial fundamentals.
Poor countries cannot afford these investments on their own, so rich countries must help.
Malaria is an important example where specific investments can solve the problems of disease, hunger, and extreme poverty.
These investments are an incredible bargain.
The world should therefore start this bold effort by focusing on the poor countries that are relatively well governed and that are prepared to carry out needed investments in an efficient and fair manner.
Indeed, failure to make the right infrastructure investments has impaired many countries’ potential to boost economic growth and employment.
Housing bubbles and investments in dubious projects result in a waste of resources and a misallocation of capital that ultimately dampens potential growth.
But if it turns toward the past in looking for its future, and if it believes it can dispense with investments in the future in favor of shameless personal self-enrichment, it will continue to lose ground.
They also serve as an alternative to the banking sector, mobilizing investments, driving economic growth, and helping to stabilize financial sectors by providing alternate sources of funding and different approaches to risk.
In particular, there are large gaps in the provision of crucial regional and cross-border investments, for example in energy and roads.
Trade integration was initially supported by massive investments in regional infrastructure, financed to an important extent by a large, specifically created institution, the European Investment Bank.
To this end, the European Commission seems prepared to establish a transparent “investment project portal” – open to the European public, as well as to Chinese and other third-party investors – to facilitate the sharing of information, knowledge, and resources for European investments.
Through sovereign investments in high-tech firms, policymakers can produce positive multiplier effects, including on the capital markets that were previously developed through privatization.
Moreover, such projects would promote cooperation between the states in the EU’s southern neighborhood, potentially boosting investments in education, infrastructure, and industrial development.
Many Arab countries have spent huge sums on education; the problem is that the return on these investments has been dismal.
Yet, instead of urging schools and teachers to compete with each other on behalf of students (tomorrow’s workers), many insist on defending teachers’ monopoly over access to education – that is, access to investments in income-boosting human capital.
Here, too, New Zealand provides a helpful example, with its proactive strategy focused on bringing together the public and private sectors to identify high-value-added opportunities and investments in research and technology.
Spurred by these pressures, finance experts have proposed several funding alternatives that reduce the risk of biopharma investments while improving the efficiency and productivity of the R&D pipeline.
Many of those models build upon a common strategy for de-risking investments: assembling a diversified portfolio.
A megafund approach would help to make both investments more productive by filling the funding gap between them.
With the right investments, African countries can reduce the cost of delivering power to rural areas, and contribute to global efforts to reduce emissions and mitigate the effects of climate change.
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