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This attracts advertisers, whose payments fund investments in improved technology and added features.
A five-times leverage would enable the IMF to increase either lending to member countries or investments in infrastructure via multilateral development banks by at least $5 trillion.
The IMF and the major central banks should take advantage of this newfound knowledge, and provide equity and liquidity against long-term lending for infrastructure investments.
In fact, just providing universal primary education would require at least $17 billion of additional spending per year, and a UN General Assembly intergovernmental committee estimates that eradicating poverty would require annual investments in infrastructure of $5-7 trillion globally.
If we can’t count on full funding for every SDG, then we should spend what we have wisely, and not spend more on investments that historically yield low returns.
Society will have to pay a price for these investments in new energy technologies, but the benefits will be vastly greater than the price.
We will all need to pay a “market price” when we contribute to global climate change, so that we give true economic incentives to sustainable energy systems and new public investments – for example, mass transit – that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and thereby head off future climatic disasters.
From Alexander Hamilton’s insistence on promoting industry and finance, to the construction of continent-spanning infrastructure and the introduction of public education, the government’s investments paid off handsomely.
To do that, we must change how global energy investments are governed.
These agreements should promote and facilitate zero-carbon investments.
But, relative to China’s total savings and investments (more than $5 trillion per year) and a banking system with total assets over $30 trillion, this level of spending is easily manageable.
First, interest rates are higher on euro and British bonds than on similar US securities, making investments in those currencies more rewarding than investments in dollars.
Local-currency bond markets could help to develop domestic investor bases and mobilize domestic savings to support long-term investments.
As a counterpart, structural coordination must, at a minimum, focus European Union funds on countries with long-term current-account deficits, the aim being to improve their competitiveness through investments in their human capital.
Indeed, low US interest rates, though an appropriate domestic response to the financial crisis, have pushed a global carry trade in which people borrow in dollars to fund investments in the apparently less crisis-hit large emerging-market economies.
Promisingly, the WRG has found that investments in efficiency can make a big difference at a reasonable cost.
Workers with their own accounts accumulate retirement assets as they add to their contributions, and as they earn interest and dividends on the fund's investments.
Their investments in private stocks and bonds will expand the Argentinean capital market, which is underdeveloped compared to some of the Latin American countries.
The higher yield on private pension investments means that workers with private accounts can contribute less than under the old system and still expect larger retirement benefits.
If other developing countries follow India’s example, it will be good news elsewhere, too: more money could be devoted to other needs, whether fighting AIDS, providing education, or making investments that enable growth and poverty reduction.
What matters more than deficits is what we do with money; borrowing to finance high-productivity investments in education, technology, or infrastructure strengthens a nation’s balance sheet.
And investments in new schools and improved education for immigrant children and job seekers would be certain to pay off handsomely.
Similarly, infectious diseases that travel across borders require global investments in early-warning systems, monitoring, and prevention.
Here, too, individual countries have little incentive to contribute to those investments and every incentive for free riding on others’ contributions.
With the creation one year ago of a $200 billion sovereign wealth fund, the China Investment Corporation, Beijing positioned itself for more equity investment (although its early investments, in the Blackstone Group and Morgan Stanley, were widely criticized).
Nevertheless, there are grounds for the US doing less in the greater Middle East than it has in recent years: the weakening of al-Qaeda; the poor prospects for peacemaking efforts; and, above all, the mounting evidence that, by any measure, massive nation-building initiatives are not yielding returns commensurate with the investments.
And the treatment of investments by banks in insurance companies is sensible relative to the alternatives.
To meet the new SDG target on education, our investments need to respond to the realities of a more volatile world.
Those are outstanding returns, and a panel of Nobel laureates that studied the United Nations’ new Global Goals determined that controlling TB is one of 19 phenomenal development investments that should be given high priority globally.
These research findings were part of the reason the Bangladeshi government increased its health investments in its 2017-18 budget.
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