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These obstacles apply to all infrastructure investments.
For the rest, governments should create national institutions to support sustainable urban infrastructure investments.
And southern Mediterranean countries can’t hope to make up in America and Asia the opportunities and investments that they are losing in Europe, certainly not in the short term.
A reliable legal framework for exports and investments is also needed, and a targeted development bank would help to create a financial environment favorable to investment.
Bush’s prior announcements of increased development assistance and stronger efforts to combat HIV/AIDS in Africa were not only moral imperatives, but also important investments in American soft power.
This view translates into policies aimed at better mobilizing society’s financial risk-bearing capacity, and that use the public sector to outwit the forces of time and ignorance that curb willingness to engage in risky investments.
They were concerned that the banks, through their wealth-management arms, were borrowing excessively on the overnight market to finance high-risk investments.
But the absence of credible carbon price signals, along with the perverse incentives created by fossil-fuel subsidies, continues to hold back the investments and technologies needed to drive a low-carbon transition.
The Obama administration is now working to initiate a sensible long-term approach to energy, with new fuel-efficiency standards for motor vehicles, investments in technology, energy-efficiency programs for dwellings, and environmentally sound exploration for additional resources.
If criticism of democratic governance on the grounds of its “inevitable short time horizon” were correct, it would be hard to explain how India, a populous, complex, and still-poor democracy, could sustain long-term investments and policies required to support rapid growth and development.
Case closed, according to some advocates of pricey investments.
This momentum would continue to grow with a new global treaty that not only brings certainty to carbon markets and triggers accelerated investments in clean-tech industries, but that also ensures that more vulnerable countries are not marginalized.
Once soybean prices began to fall, however, the entire industry found itself with excess capacity, as well as high debt burdens, reflecting previous investments in labor and capital.
The Millennium Villages Project, which I have the honor of helping to lead, has demonstrated that pastoralist communities can be empowered through targeted investments in livestock management, veterinary care, business development, mobile health clinics, boarding schools, and local infrastructure such as safe water points, off-grid electricity, and mobile telephony.
Their per capita living standards should thus be substantially higher than in the US, where swarms of kids must be attended to and where new investments must be made just to keep the capital stock growing in step with a swelling population.
But only recently many slow growing countries were eager to develop venture capital markets and foster stock exchanges--France's Nouveau Marche, Germany's Neuer Markt, Italy's Nuovo Mercato, and Mothers in Japan--devoted to risky investments.
Instead of agreeing to broad aspirations, it would have been more worthwhile to use the goals to highlight specific, more achievable investments.
According to an analysis by Nobel laureates and other prestigious economists for the Copenhagen Consensus Center, these investments include expanded immunization for children, efforts to lower the price of schooling, and initiatives to end the “silent hunger” of micronutrient deficiency.
These companies compete in global markets with firms headquartered in countries that use business-friendly tax policies to attract the investments, income, and associated externalities of multinational companies.
Notably, the issuer, that is the borrower, can rationally plan such borrowing to make real investments.
Moreover, unlike private firms, governments can count as profits on their investments the benefits of positive externalities (benefits that accrue to everyone).
The payoffs of such investments are, if anything, higher than they were then, given that many countries still have relatively weak economies that need stimulating.
Huge investments – worth trillions of euros – will be needed to meet global energy requirements.
If the Asian economies that devalued their currencies recover and significantly increase their exports and China begins to have a large trade deficitBeyond managing the uncertainties surrounding Japan's economy through the rest of this year, the challenge for Chinese policymakers will come when Asian economies start to grow and China’s domestic market heats up because of the government's ambitious infrastructure investments.
But it also depends on the ability and willingness of government to provide a bridging function for the deficiency in aggregate demand, and to pursue reforms and investments that boost long-term growth prospects.
Lastly, he may want to reassess his signature policy, the Belt and Road Initiative, which is increasingly being criticized as a mechanism for China to export its debt to other indebted countries, often through investments in white elephants and other dubious projects.
By pursuing a Congress-supported pivot toward a more comprehensive economic-policy stance, his administration’s policy surge could also spur the private sector to begin using its large amounts of cash not for short-term financial engineering, but for growth-enhancing investments in plant, equipment, and people.
Such reforms should be part of a larger integrated strategy that includes a range of other domestic policies and investments (backed by international assistance where needed).
Whatever shape they take, international rules should be written in such a way that they encourage and reward good national-level policies and investments in agriculture.
Financial wizards, like George Soros and Warren Buffet, generated their wealth through smart investments.
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