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Public and philanthropic investments in local startup businesses are already paying off, both in terms of creating jobs and generating financial returns.
For starters, it should refine the rules governing which investments meet CRA requirements.
Is it to make investments?
The “Addu Declaration,” issued after the conclusion of the meeting, promised small moves by the eight SAARC member states, rather than a breakthrough on matters such as the settlement of trade disputes, granting of transit rights, and encouragement of cross-border investments.
Naturally, the ECB’s guarantees encouraged creditors to extend the crisis-afflicted countries still more credit, rescuing the investments of earlier creditors.
These investments represent a long-term commitment, and Africa benefits in many ways, gaining not only jobs today, but also a more advanced industrial base that will underpin employment and drive economic growth long into the future.
These investments also support Africa’s drive toward greater mobility, higher productivity, and a more prominent role in world trade.
It is the responsibility of all African governments to ensure that investments and partnerships – whether with emerging-market investors such as China, Brazil, India, and the Gulf states, or with Europe and the US – are built on fair terms.
But these countries’ openness has increased the economic and political salience of investments in human capital and a strong social safety net.
But so, too, are policies to ensure that investments and economic activities are based on real comparative advantages, and not on transitory “beggar thy neighbor” incentive structures.
But their transitions are faster and less painful, because investments run broadly across their public and private sectors, and across tangible and intangible assets.
These investments bring a modest real financial rate of return of 4% through fees, tolls, and, in the longer run, tax revenues (stemming from an increase in GDP).
Such investments would directly strengthen Germany’s public-sector balance sheet.
Several solutions to this problem have been proposed, and some – such as increased capital requirements and restrictions on risky investments – are headed toward implementation.
As the Copenhagen Consensus, as well as the World Bank recently advocated, R&D investments on the order of $100 billion a year will be needed if wind and other alternative technologies are to become truly viable.
And, as it supports investments with important country-level benefits, it could serve as an incentive for African countries to pursue reforms that increase their absorptive capacity, in terms of choosing and executing public infrastructure investments.
The traditional drivers of its economy – a vast pool of surplus labor and massive investments in infrastructure, housing, and industrial capacity – are becoming exhausted.
First, the banking system, which dominates lending, typically funds long-term investments with short-term bank deposits, creating a maturity mismatch.
As recent bitter experience has shown, China’s government cannot continue to stimulate the economy by pursuing debt-financed investments.
Faced with tight fiscal (and political) constraints, policymakers should abandon the flawed notion that investments with broad – and, to some extent, non-appropriable – public benefits must be financed entirely with public funds.
At the same time, this approach means that policymakers must find ways to ensure that public investments provide returns for private investors.
At the same time, a new United Nations report shows that annual investments in disaster-risk reduction of $6 billion can result in savings of up to $360 billion.
Advances in risk reduction that safeguard development gains and business investments must match this progress in disaster preparedness, and we must make wise choices that create greater opportunities in the future.
More broadly, over the next 15 years, the world will make major investments in urban infrastructure, energy, and agriculture.
In a particularly important move, the insurance industry, representing $30 trillion in assets and investments, committed to creating a Climate Risk Investment Framework for industry-wide adoption by the end of the year.
They have yet to make sufficient investments in infrastructure, education, and human capital more generally.
America’s trade volume with the EU is roughly 37 times higher than that with Russia, with huge mutual direct investments locking in the transatlantic partners’ interdependence.
Despite these immense investments, however, observers – including Nye himself – have scratched their heads, wondering why these authoritarian regimes continue to suffer a deep soft-power deficit, even as they have grown more assertive internationally.
Similarly, the European Union is supporting technology investments through its “digital single market,” and through new policies in areas like venture capital, high-capacity computing, and cloud computing.
The combination of large business investments in new technologies, combined with high levels of consumer spending, fueled a spending boom.
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