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UNIDO’s PCP provides countries with technical assistance, policy advice, and investments to help them design and implement industrialization strategies.
It is designed to work in synergy with governments and their partners’ ongoing development efforts, while funneling additional funds and investments toward sectors that have high growth potential and are important to a particular government’s industrial-development agenda.
First, illiquid investments limit investors’ ability to adjust their portfolios in response to early warnings of an increase in systemic risk.
Investors and businesses don’t fear that a new regime can take power and call off all, or too many, bets, leading to losses on their investments.
And everyone knows that beneath the stability of the moment lurk explosive forces that can change the regime and devalue huge investments.
Its prohibition of interest and requirement that investments be linked to the real economy, together with its approach to profit- and loss-sharing, add stability to the financial sector.
As policymakers in both developed and developing countries make decisions and investments that will shape the landscape in which technological change unfolds, it is gratifying to see countries engaging in meaningful dialogue about their digital futures.
If we coordinate our investments in people with our spending on innovation, the new “digital age” will leave no one behind.
Closing wide information gaps in the market for skills would also increase the efficiency of these investments.
Moreover, the infrastructure investments of this period were funded by reckless and imprudent lending by public-sector banks, which often funneled resources to high-risk, politically connected borrowers.
This is eroding the external surplus, weakening domestic purchasing power, and causing investments to be postponed.
The connection between R&D and growth is too obvious to doubt that Europe's sluggish economies are a direct result of European backwardness at innovation - and that this in turn may reflect the absence of critical military spending to drive investments in research and development.
To help stabilize more democratic and market-driven Arab countries, Europe must redouble its investments there, but it must also define the rules that it wants in place.
Aside from a few investments in oil in Nigeria and Angola, Africa received almost no private capital flows from the rest of the world.
They are savvy, business oriented, and eager for foreign investments.
A multi-sector approach that includes investments in water, sanitation, and hygiene – so-called WASH services – can keep cholera at bay.
Whatever downside they may see to this approach, the fact remains that foreign enterprises – including completely foreign-owned companies and foreign partners of Chinese firms – have benefited greatly from their investments in China.
Yet the American Enterprise Institute reports that, from 2005 to 2016, Chinese companies have made just 202 investments, including mergers and acquisitions, in the US, only 16 of which – totaling $21 billion – were in technology sectors.
China’s government believed that it could engineer a soft landing in the transition from torrid double-digit economic growth, fueled by exports and investments, to steady and balanced growth underpinned by domestic consumption, especially of services.
Such investments would drive a decisive shift from low-productivity to higher-productivity sectors, boosting employment and wages.
They thought that France could temper Germany’s austerity push and advocate for higher public-sector investments.
As with negative real interest rates, but in a more targeted and efficient manner, we may have to pay to make valuable investments happen.
The UK would be free to loosen regulations and lower taxes in order to attract investments for which a foothold in the EU is not necessary.
We will press ahead with reforms, including a review of the GPIF’s portfolio, to ensure that public funds contribute to growth-nurturing investments.
In short, we need to shift from the CIA to the GFE, from the expensive failures of US-led regime change (including those targeting Afghanistan’s Taliban, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi, and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad) to investments in health, education, and decent jobs.
But while a small number of innovative professors are using such methods to reinvent their courses, the tremendous resistance they face from other faculty holds down the size of the market and makes it hard to justify the investments needed to produce more rapid change.
In that case, the money generated by the tax could be used to reduce government debt; otherwise, it could be used to finance investments in technology and education – including supply-side measures to improve the productivity of Japan’s service sector.
Some require financial investments that are not possible in a period of fiscal retrenchment, and some place too high a demand on voters’ patience.
Viewed from this perspective, it might be possible to create a fiscal capacity for the EMU, at least initially, that could provide the financial incentives for implementation of major reforms at the national level, expanding later to other stabilization functions and perhaps issuing bonds to support public productive investments at the EU level.
We must plan investments in research and development to resolve these uncertainties and improve our technological options.
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