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Markets, regulatory frameworks, and public-sector investments are means to attain shared goals.

Summers’ theory of “secular stagnation” (a term first used by the economist Alvin Hansen back in 1938) holds that, in the United States, the desire to save chronically outweighs the desire to spend on growth-enhancing investments.

But now, after years of investments, digital empowerment is underway, owing to a confluence of factors, including growing network coverage, more capable devices, and an expanding catalogue of applications.

Companies are then willing to make the investments required to build new systems, and customers are able to accept the transition costs of adopting new behaviors.

The price of solar energy has been dropping steadily for 30 years – by about 50% every decade – and we could likely accelerate that decline further with sufficiently large investments in research and development.

Good public policy in such an environment needs to ensure that monopolists in one generation do not retard innovation in the next generation, and that monopoly profits from the provision of essential services are not too large (although they need to be large enough to reward past investments).

But in many developing countries, easier access to finance – owing to unrestricted cross-border capital flows and financial-market deregulation – still has not led to more financing for long-term investments, particularly in manufacturing.

In East Asia, which has experienced rapid growth and development in recent years, policymakers have not only allowed, but encouraged, higher corporate profits, so long as they are channeled into productive investments.

It would be premature to suggest that the relationship between profits and investments has broken down in the developing world.

This will require reforming and deepening the banking system to ensure enough lending capacity for long-term investments, including for small- and medium-sized enterprises.

China is setting ambitious targets for reducing energy intensity and making massive investments in renewable energy.

The important thing for Copenhagen is that decisions are taken now for investments that will yield benefits later.

Private capital markets are inherently biased toward short-termism, and tend not to finance long-term investments in infrastructure.

Affected communities should be sharing the benefits, not absorbing the costs, of new infrastructure investments.

For starters, countries should embrace policies that favor foreign direct investment (FDI) over inflows that can be withdrawn more quickly, such as foreign bank loans, debt, or equity investments.

As a result, over the last few decades, ODA has played a central role in lifting people from extreme poverty, financing investments in human and physical infrastructure, and smoothing the path of economic reform.

Although global savings amount to $17 trillion and liquidity is at an all-time high, a relatively small share of these resources is being channeled toward investments that support development objectives, such as closing the massive infrastructure gap.

A “Monterrey II” meeting would help countries obtain a clearer and more realistic picture of the financing sources available, enabling them to prioritize the needed investments – and thus contribute to the successful launch of the post-2015 development agenda.

With auditing and accountability systems, we can make future investments dependent on results, and transform every classroom into a learning hub for every child.

For our program to succeed, the global investment in education will need to rise steadily from $1.2 trillion now to $3 trillion by 2030; and low- and middle-income countries will need to modernize their education sectors by increasing their domestic investments to 5.8% of national spending, 1.8% above the current average.

Similarly, it will take a decade of public and private investments to demonstrate the feasibility of coal-fired plants that capture their carbon dioxide.

According to SAFE, as of February 2012, China had accumulated $4.7 trillion in foreign assets through purchases of United States government securities and other investments, and more than $2.9 trillion in foreign liabilities through foreign direct investment (FDI) and borrowing.

In 2008, US corporations gained a 33% return on their investments in China, while other multinationals got a 22% return.

In such a scenario, the US exports to China what Ricardo Hausmann and Federico Sturzenegger have dubbed “dark matter” (unaccounted assets, such as knowledge, which US corporations export through their investments), while China exports consumer goods and services to the US.

Not only is VC investment concentrated in a small part of the country; it has recently tended to support the expansion of later-stage investments, rather than the launch of startups.

Before the global economic crisis, entrepreneurs often relied on personal savings, credit cards, home equity loans, and investments by friends and family for start-up capital.

They channeled most of the rest of their $715 billion in assets into traditional investments, in order to generate returns that would expand their capital base.

But a growing number of foundations – such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Kresge Foundation – are increasing the share of assets they direct toward investments that further their philanthropy.

Such investments can help to accelerate impact investing, which aims to yield both a social and a financial return.

Unfortunately, program-related spending still represents only 1% of capital deployed by foundations, with just 0.05% of that going toward equity investments.

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