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Thanks to concerted investments in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, the number of people killed by the disease each year has declined 60% since 2000, saving more than six million lives.
That’s why we need effective action to prevent the spread of artemisinin resistance, including urgent investments in the next generation of antimalarial treatments.
Lower interest rates, for example, would free up money so that even countries with tight budget constraints could spend more on growth-enhancing investments.
Significant shifts in power (typically as a result of changes in commodity prices) and ideology, or changes in the economics of projects, can lead to renegotiations, especially when it comes to large investments in natural resources and infrastructure.
Only one out of every ten Venezuelan companies polled states any intention of making middle or long term investments such as renovating existing industrial plants or building new ones.
And co-investment platforms with multilateral and regional development banks should be established, to boost the credibility of these investments.
And with emerging economies now at the forefront of the fight against climate change, the world will benefit even more if investments in these countries are steered toward green-infrastructure projects.
These speculative investments can further strengthen the trend and push futures price further away from market equilibrium, especially if many investors follow suit or those who invest have sufficient funds to influence the market.
We must also recognize that a war with Iraq, even a limited war, could profoundly disrupt the international flow of goods, services, and investments upon which our global economy now rests.
Handouts of food and fuel in lieu of jobs, and investments to raise the productivity of work to which only the privileged have access, would do nothing to enable outsiders to compete for good jobs, or to remove the barriers, such as licenses, to self-employment.
This would serve the medium-term goal of public-finance sustainability, while treating the interest-rate level as a one-off windfall that can be used to address priority investments and strengthen growth potential.
There are several types of investments worth undertaking.
In the EU, it is sometimes argued that the way to trigger these investments is to exclude capital spending from the SGP and monitor only the balance for current spending.
As a result, the volume of bank credits financing local investments increased six-fold in 2009 alone.
Ricardo projected “declining returns” on investments in resources, whereby the best (least-cost) resources are used first, followed by the next best, and so on.
Already, the new Egyptian finance minister, Samir Radwan, has made it clear that he does not favor investments from “the enemy” – that is, Israel – which might lead to a takeover of the Egyptian economy.
While these areas are important, their allocations should be reduced further to create space for growth-enhancing investments.
We need a new Sustainable Development Economics, with governments promoting new types of investments.
And without universal access to public investments in human capital, societies will succumb to extreme inequalities of income and wealth.
Nor do Keynesians think through the kinds of public investments that are needed; for them, spending is spending.
The result is a public-sector vacuum and a dearth of public investments, which in turn holds back necessary private-sector investment.
They need to understand much better how to prioritize road, rail, power, and port investments; how to make investments environmentally sustainable by moving to a low-carbon energy system; how to train young workers for decent jobs, not only low-wage service-sector employment; and how to build social capital, in an age when there is little trust and considerable corruption.
Moreover, they must open their own markets not only in the traditional areas of agriculture and manufacturing, but also in new areas such as services, investments, and standards.
Public policies can play an important role by extending access to family planning services to the poor, expanding social security systems, reducing child mortality through public health investments, and improving education and job opportunities for women.
They will also save on investments in new roads, power plants, schools, and other public services.
There are also substantial investments by American money-market funds in instruments issued by some of the exposed banks.
If these investments reach all parts of Latin America, rich and poor, the region's prospects will brighten enormously.
His business activities include brokering sales of oil-field equipment to Iraq (causing huge losses for Chinese state-owned oil companies); construction of hydroelectric power stations in Sichuan (where his father was the provincial party boss from 1997 to 2002); providing information technology for 8,000 state-owned gas stations; and investments in real estate, oil exploration, and toll roads.
Major public as well as private investments will be needed to build links between various national pipeline grids.
Such investments will have big implications for Europe’s gas industry and create more transparency in global gas pricing, because it is now possible to import gas from distant producers.
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