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Donors such as the World Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation use GBD data to guide their investments, and more than 30 countries have conducted their own burden-of-disease studies.
With focused effort and further innovation, we can make even more progress in the next 25 years to help the world make the most of our collective health investments.
To this end, the World Bank’s capital base in its International Bank for Reconstruction and Development should be increased along the lines of the requested $253 billion, to help fund emerging economies’ investments in highways, airports, and much else.
This lack of effective coordination, collaboration, or knowledge sharing carries through to investments, which often end up narrowly focused on a single project, sector, or geographic area – often weakening their effectiveness.
The GIRL Center, which I direct, aims to make the most of the world’s investments in girls, both by supporting evidence-based policies and by aligning the goals and priorities of various stakeholders.
But even – or especially – if developing countries do make such investments, much will be lost to science.
Likewise, Internet companies’ investments in content-delivery networks and Internet exchange points enable them to carry their own traffic close to consumers, handing it off to EU telecoms in places like London, Paris, and Frankfurt.
What matters more for long-term growth are investments in the future – including crucial public investments in education, technology, and infrastructure.
Such investments ensure that all citizens, no matter how poor their parents, can live up to their potential.
By the late 1990s, the economists Erik Brynjolfsson and Lorin Hitt had disproved the productivity paradox, uncovering problems in the way service-sector productivity was measured and, more important, noting that there was generally a long lag between technology investments and productivity gains.
Our own research at the time found a large jump in productivity in the late 1990s, driven largely by efficiencies made possible by earlier investments in information technology.
But one of the most powerful investments the development community could make is not in today’s problems, but in research that will address tomorrow’s challenges.
The case for prioritizing such investments is no less compelling.
Strong efforts by Africans, coupled with the investments of the G8 and other partners, are paying off in important ways that are often unnoticed by the outside world.
In 2014, investments in clean energy reached a new high of $310 billion, after two years of decline.
Third, governments must create policy frameworks that foster low-carbon investments.
Expanding tuberculosis treatment and childhood immunization coverage are two other health investments that the expert panel endorses.
Indeed, if SWF’s continue to grow their investments are bound to permanently alter the relative weight of state and privately controlled assets in advanced economies.
Of course, not all SWF’s favor strategic investments, i.e. taking controlling stakes in the acquired firms.
Some, like Singapore’s Government Investment Corporation, prefer passive and diversified investments with no controlling stake in companies.
What would happen if a small group of huge state-owned SWF’s made very large investments in a variety of assets?
Of course, so long as the US runs annual current-account deficits of almost a trillion dollars, it will need to borrow from strategic rivals such as China, Russia, and unstable Middle East petro-states, which increasingly will lend in the form of high-yield equity investments rather than low-yield T-bills.
Support for such investments requires people to reject the false promise of “clean” fossil fuels.
During President Obama’s visit to Africa, MCC made a further commitment of $52 million to support a series of similar public-private partnerships that are expected to generate $750 million in investments in Africa.
MCC could do even more to increase trade capacity and cross-border engagement if it had the authority to pursue regional investments.
By almost any measure, African science and technology is in a dismal state: in terms of the miniscule numbers and inadequate skills of its research and technical personnel; the poor and neglected quality of the infrastructure; the low level of instruction in primary and secondary schools; the miserly investments in universities and research institutes.
As these investments bear fruit, the increased supply will sustain downward pressure on prices.
American companies have quintupled their investments in India over the last decade.
By revealing underlying weaknesses that more traditional risk-assessment methods may miss, we could pinpoint the structural reforms, behavioral changes, and strategic investments that increased resilience requires.
Meanwhile, enormous financial investments focused on securing a higher rate of return are likely to fuel technological innovation, further stressing regulatory systems in finance and beyond.
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