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It is crucial that this new climate finance be used to complement the even-larger investments in sustainable development that will be necessary over the next few decades.
Indeed, the savings of workers who may not be retiring for several decades are particularly well suited for long-term investments.
The dramatic reductions in poverty achieved by China over the span of a few decades, as well as by other East Asian countries like South Korea and Taiwan, resulted largely from improved economic management (as much as earlier investments in education and health may have played a role).
Public health is one area where small investments in technology can bring big benefits to marginalized groups.
But at a time when the foundations of the global order are shifting at Europe’s expense, marginal reforms will not suffice, and Germany has neither set out its own vision of a stronger Europe, nor shown a willingness to take action and make the necessary investments.
China needs a major internal restructuring from exports and investments, its two engines of growth in past decades, to personal and government consumption (education, health, and social protection in the latter case).
By contrast, the benefits of public investments are slower to be felt, and their beneficiaries are more diffuse.
Instead, the advanced economies need a medium-term plan to restore competitiveness and jobs via massive new investments in high-quality education, job training and human-capital improvements, infrastructure, and alternative/renewable energy.
As countries approach this level of development, new investments will be needed to pay for health and education upgrades, and mobilizing domestic tax revenue will become a critical component of budgeting strategies.
Guided by their consideration of each option’s costs and benefits, and setting aside matters like media attention, the experts identified the best investments – those for which relatively tiny amounts of money could generate significant returns in terms of health, prosperity, and community advantages.
By highlighting the areas in which even small investments can accomplish a great deal, the project influenced philanthropic organizations and governments.
In addition to the Chinese government’s own capital controls, the US government has been considering tighter restrictions on Chinese investments in strategically important sectors, particularly those relating to AI and machine learning.
The challenge will be to contain the risks of doing business with an illiberal state, without losing out on Chinese investments and innovations.
The United States and the European Union ratcheted up economic sanctions on Russia in response to its military excursions in Ukraine, highlighting the geopolitical risks associated with cross-border investments.
One major factor driving the lackluster performance of investments in emerging markets is the expectation that the Fed will begin to raise interest rates and normalize monetary policy later this year.
But Brazil rose to the challenge, making massive investments in improving the quality of teaching.
Like rent control, insecure ownership also reduces individuals’ incentives to make long-term investments in prevention.
Such a commission, according to the CNE, would spearhead the formulation and deployment of a combination of appropriate programs, policies, and investments in the short and medium term, as part of a comprehensive development framework.
Keynesians: To prevent recessions from turning into depressions, a fall in aggregate demand must be reversed through increased investment, which requires that entrepreneurs believe that increased consumption will mop up the additional output that new investments will bring about.
Record-breaking global temperatures, plummeting fossil-fuel prices, historic investments in renewable energy, and global pressure to honor climate pledges are all coming together to create the ideal setting for this world-changing shift.
Those committed to addressing climate change – from international organizations to local communities to individual citizens – must urgently build on the momentum acquired over the last year, by maintaining strong pressure on governments and companies to pursue the policies and investments needed to complete the break from fossil fuels.
To be sure, investments in CHWs should not come at the expense of critical public-health measures to slow the spread of Ebola or support for frontline clinics.
International organizations must recognize that they do not have to choose between supporting traditional health-care investments and emergency-response efforts.
Agriculture was barely on the list: the capital investments were too great, the infrastructure too decayed, the market non-existent, and profitability too far off.
Without adequate government support and guarantees, agricultural investments were too risky.
Rising global temperatures and an increasingly unstable climate will influence all aspects of development and jeopardize existing investments unless adequate mitigation and adaptation strategies – which are also central to the new Sustainable Development Goals that the United Nations will adopt later this month – are put in place.
But China’s direct investments in the US have increased rapidly, from less than $1 billion annually in 2003-2008 to more than $5 billion per year in 2010-2011.
First, like all mergers and acquisitions involving both domestic and foreign investors, investments in or acquisitions of US companies by Chinese companies, whether state-owned or private, must be evaluated by the US Justice Department for their impact on market competition.
Second, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) must screen investments in or acquisitions of US companies by foreign companies, including Chinese companies, for national-security risks.
CFIUS does not review greenfield investments, which account for about 50% of Chinese FDI in the US.
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