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Only the rich industrial nations of Europe, America, and Japan can afford to pay for the necessary investments in emerging countries.
The only way to do that will be to implement well-designed social protection and scale up pro-poor investments.
As such investments sustainably raise incomes, they enable further increases in productive personal investments, thereby breaking the vicious cycle of poverty and hunger.
Governments, too, have investments to make, in order to ensure that those who are currently mired in poverty reach the point where they can invest in themselves.
Bolivians wonder why investments of some $3 billion should entitle foreign investors to 82% of the country’s vast gas reserves, now estimated to be worth $250 billion.
While there has not yet been full disclosure of returns, or an audit of the true value of investments, it appears that investors would, at the old terms, have recouped all their money within just four years.
Bolivia contributed to these joint enterprises not only with resources, but also with previous investments.
Institutional investors have found it difficult to achieve positive real yields in any of the traditional safe-haven investments.
In addition to boosting investments in foreign stocks and bonds, they have now raised their holdings of domestic stocks for the fifth consecutive quarter.
These allocation decisions are understandable, given the paltry yields available in fixed-income investments, but the resulting second-order impact could ultimately prove devastating.
Building on heavy investments in public infrastructure, such as ports, airports, roads, rail, and telecommunications, the Internet is now expanding rapidly the range of choices available to Chinese consumers, while lowering costs and accelerating delivery.
The UK can help: while it is a party to sanctions against Russia, British companies have investments there, and vice versa.
No one can claim that financial markets did a stellar job in allocating resources in the late 1990’s, with 97% of investments in fiber optics taking years to see any light.
Not surprisingly, investments in agriculture in developing countries faded, and a food gap widened.
In Egypt, the initial understanding was that the military establishment would demand constitutional and legal immunity from prosecution for its leaders; continuation of its off-budget, tax-free investments; and a veto on “high politics,” including national security and critical foreign policy issues.
They can take advantage of the current bonanza in available capital to build contestability, transparency, and institutional quality around markets in which greenfield investments can be implemented.
Popular equity investments, such as shares in Safaricom, are already trading at unexpectedly low levels.
The rate of return required on safe investments declined from 10% to 4%.
Speaking at Harvard earlier this year, former US Vice President Al Gore praised a student group that was pushing the university to sell its investments in fossil-fuel companies, and compared their activities to the divestment campaign in the 1980’s that helped to end South Africa’s racist apartheid policy.
So though I welcome the advent of venture capital for internet investments outside America, I worry.
The idea is to impel the banks to reduce their unspent balances and increase their lending or investments.
As a result, housing and domestic equities are the main investments available to them.
Today, though, investments often refer to something impossible to touch – like computer software, branding, or an archive of data.
These “intangible investments” are booked in GDP accounts as intermediate goods, not as output.
But intangible investments influence company profitability.
If all income were taxed at the same rate, intangible investments made by companies would still generate revenue in the form of taxes paid by the companies’ wealthy owners.
Moreover, by collaborating with countries that are increasing their own investments in education, the Facility will also contribute to meeting universal education targets.
Today, it is a vibrant area benefiting from strategic investments in public transportation (including cable cars and new metro stations), education (libraries and schools), and security.
Similar strategic investments will be needed throughout the country to ensure that nobody is left behind; the empowerment of women and girls being one crucial objective.
Or they may use these earnings to make investments abroad that yield a lower return than investments at home.
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