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The World Bank estimates that infrastructure investments accounted for nearly half of the acceleration in Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth in 2001-2005.
Another important consideration is the considerable technical expertise that infrastructure investments demand, which makes them more complex than most assets.
Such projects could be investments that would help limit global warming, or investments to equip the labor force for the digital economy.
This means two things: allowing companies to deduct all investments in equipment and structures immediately, instead of spreading the cost over time; and eliminating the deduction for interest costs on newly incurred debts.
Now we also know that it is among the best investments we can make.
But it may be worse: coordinating everyone into risky asset investments may be more dangerous than coordinating them into boring investments like money-market funds.
The proposal would also have required that money-market funds hold back a fraction of some redemptions, thereby making investors take some risk that funds might not have complete transactional liquidity if their investments weakened.
While these investments were a small fraction of the overall need, the impact on health outcomes has been significant.
The Hydrogen SolutionRHINECLIFF, NY – Around the world, governments and businesses are constantly being called upon to make big investments in solar, wind, and geothermal energy, as well as biofuels.
But the right will have none of this, and instead is pushing for even more tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, together with expenditure cuts in investments and social protection that put the future of the US economy in peril and that shred what remains of the social contract.
Growth would restore confidence that Greece could repay its debts, causing interest rates to fall and leaving more fiscal room for further growth-enhancing investments.
“I think two sectors holding back the economy are private investments and exports,” says the government’s chief economic adviser, Arvind Subramanian.
Like many of Enron's investments, it worked well in the short run, but did not pan out in the long run.
If countries that adopt standards are defined as “safe” investments, foreign investors can justify their actions even if things go badly wrong.
While almost half of Africa's 53 countries could profitably produce hydropower, only 7% of this potential is reached because of poor infrastructure and the high costs of initial investments.
Encouraging new investments in low-pollution, energy- and resource-efficient industries would lead to greener development, spur investments in related upstream and downstream manufacturing and services, and build an international competitive advantage in a global sunrise industry.
But, in the long term, Brazil will have to invest more in generation – and those investments, as every government in Latin America knows, are increasingly controversial for political and environmental reasons.
The joint budget, which would make investments and provide a cushion during economic downturns, would be overseen by a eurozone finance minister, who would answer to eurozone countries’ representatives in the European Parliament.
New investments, lines of business, and worker-firm matches that would be highly productive and profitable at normal levels of capacity utilization and unemployment are unprofitable now.
Like its partners, France has launched significant stimulus measures, with a plan announced by President Nicolas Sarkozy last December, as well as public investments and early repayment of government debt.
We must revise compensation schemes and delay bonus payments until the long-term profitability of a firm’s investments is known.
The Greening of GrowthNAIROBI – The G-20 summit in Toronto offers an opportunity for a long, hard look at how green investments are assisting economic recovery and job growth in many countries, while generating environmental gains as well, including on climate change.
Many conglomerates went bankrupt during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, having made excessive and unprofitable investments.
This is particularly true in the advanced economies, where depleted financial reserves and political paralysis are preventing constructive investments in areas like infrastructure and education, which can enable citizens to take advantage of globalization’s benefits.
The evidence led them to believe that proposed solutions to financial instability and global warming – while both important topics – are not the right investments to start with.
Because commercial real-estate investments are generally highly leveraged, even relatively small declines in prices could cause large losses for investors.
Restrictions on foreign investors’ equity holdings or investments in services are being sequentially eliminated.
First, India has considerable resources of its own to put towards growth, and has proven itself skilled at the art of channelling domestic savings into productive investments.
Moreover, low and especially negative interest rates make holding cash costly, prompting investors to seek riskier investments with higher potential returns.
Whoever wins the election almost certainly will continue to make further investments in education.
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