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This has translated into a steady flow of multibillion-dollar investments in the region.
In South Africa’s review, it found that it had not received significant investments from the countries with which it had signed agreements, but had received significant investments from those with which it had not.
Although Jeffrey Sachs has criticized Summers and Krugman for advocating a deficit-financed “consumption-led recovery,” they would not disagree with Sachs’s argument that “America urgently needs investments in modernized infrastructure, advanced science and technology, and job skills appropriate for the twenty-first century.”
As he points out, “Large-scale investments remain impeded because the US lacks basic strategies in all key sectors.
Yet what all participants in this debate have neglected is the need to justify such investments politically – to address the issue of the “missing mission.”
If so, shouldn't investments in equities be shunned?
Neither economic nor management theory is of much help in helping entrepreneurs (or the state) choose appropriate investments among the range of modern-sector activities.
Effective government investments and strong regulations are needed to ensure each of these outcomes, regardless of the prevailing political culture in Texas and elsewhere.
So long as spending goes to investments yielding a modest return of 6%, the long-term debt will be reduced, even as the short-term deficit increases, owing to the higher tax revenues generated by the larger output in the short run and the more rapid growth in the long run.
Moreover, real interest rates will rise, owing to policy uncertainty, rendering many investments that are truly socially productive unprofitable.
Yet another part of US productivity growth due to the fact that high-tech capital gives America's firms enormous incentives to make massive but hard to see - and even harder to measure - investments in organization and business processes that are complementary to computerization and networking.
In 1997, the investors panicked, withdrawing $12 billion instead of making new investments.
Third, in the longer term, new capital investments will be needed to re-establish an adequate capital base in Asia’s banks.
While low-return investments generate aggregate demand, they do not increase future income or productive potential, and thus do not foster sustainable growth.
Long-neglected investments in surgical capacity would yield high returns.
India is good at channeling domestic savings into productive investments, which is why it has relied so much less on foreign direct investment, and is even exporting capital to OECD countries, where it is well able to control and manage assets in sophisticated financial markets.
But with the right financial frameworks in place, and with new ways to measure progress, the investments we make today don’t need to break the bank.
While implementing energy-efficiency measures may require heavy initial investments, these outlays will be offset by future productivity growth, which is the only way developed countries can sustainably improve living standards over time.
Macron’s government is also making big investments in tutoring programs and other measures to help children with learning difficulties, and to allow for more homework to be done at school.
And it will make it harder for state and local governments to finance necessary investments in innovation, infrastructure, and higher education – investments that are largely the states’ responsibility but are pillars of overall US competitiveness.
Recognizing the need for systemic change, China allowed local governments in special economic zones and cities to experiment with modern legal, administrative, and logistical practices for export industries, including investments in utilities and transport.
Diseases such as malaria can be overcome through globally coordinated investments in disease control.
The oceans, rainforests, and air can be kept safe through pooled investments in environmental protection.
Global solutions to poverty, food production, and development of new clean energy technology will require annual investments of roughly $350 billion, or 1% of GNP of the rich world.
The better tools we have for measuring progress, the more we can ensure that those investments reach the people who need them the most.
Beneath the surface, numerous problems were festering: growing inequality; an unmet need for structural reform (moving from a manufacturing-based economy to services and adapting to changing global comparative advantages); persistent global imbalances; and a financial system more attuned to speculating than to making investments that would create jobs, increase productivity, and redeploy surpluses to maximize social returns.
More than half of these investments are within other EU countries, with a further 30% going to the US.
German’s surplus is thus less damaging than China’s, as it is used for investments that foster productivity gains, economic growth, and job creation – and that often include technology transfers that help to develop human capital.
The main aim is to lower the level of risk for private investments, by improving economic and financial conditions and strengthening institutions.
In reaching their estimate, the researchers took into account major investments by both the public and private sectors in a wide range of projects.
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