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Considerable amounts of aid are directed toward “fragile states” to help stop or prevent civil war, but only 0.27% of international aid goes to projects with a “crime prevention” component.
And few would deny the Bank’s achievements when it comes to gathering indicators of economic activity, measuring poverty, identifying deficiencies in the provision of health and education, and, in earlier years, designing and evaluating development projects.
Imagine how much good that money could do if it were channeled toward welfare-enhancing projects.
If this effort produced just a 10% reduction in the average losses from illicit financial flows, compared to 2002-2012, it would save countries $768 billion – money that could be used to finance development projects.
As a result, airports and bus terminals have been built on floodplains; warehouses and factories on wetlands and marshlands; and housing projects on former lakes.
Blaming the Spanish conquerors or the economic empires of the twentieth century cannot hide the fact that huge amounts of money financed corrupt governments, inefficient bureaucracies, big and useless “development” projects such as industrial plants or mineral mills, or a wide variety of subsidies to buy off powerful interest groups.
Whatever remains for public investments are sure to be wasted, as projects tend to pass cost-benefit analysis when the financing comes from easy money, generously provided by mother nature.
But these initiatives have yet to yield significant results, with foreign investors wary of operating in a country that lacks both economic-policy credibility and the physical and institutional infrastructure needed to support large-scale projects.
The failure of state plans and projects is overlooked because of the small but expanding internal market, which is invigorated by de facto economic liberalism involving the growth of smuggling and drug traffic.
Private business and capital are also expanding their role in development projects.
Projects supporting inter-Korean economic cooperation will also carry considerable costs.
Over the past six years, the African Development Bank has invested $3.3 billion in projects to expand access to water and improve sanitation, with around $2.2 billion of that going to urban services that reach at least 17 million people.
These projects also help countries to harness and use waste flows, by converting sewage to biogas and fertilizer.
This effort will help to develop business innovations for affordable and sustainable sanitation services in Africa, which could reach two million urban dwellers directly and another six million people through subsidiary projects.
Certain types of projects are more growth-enhancing than others, depending on starting conditions.
The crucial issue is how EU funds are used and the extent to which the projects they finance complement each other.
The size of advance payments was increased to finance the European Economic Recovery Program in each country, and feasibility studies of large infrastructure projects were suspended.
Finally, the European Commission should be allowed to administer funds directly in countries that are under conditionality, mainly to finance large infrastructure projects – ranging from transport to telecommunications to energy.
As for priorities, the EU has clearly indicated that Structural and Cohesion funds should be used to implement the “EU 2020” strategy, according to which member countries are asked to focus resources on a small number of high-return projects – so-called “thematic concentration.”
And it calls for greater support for climate projects, including through capacity building and technology transfer from developed to developing countries.
The EU vs. DemocracyROME – One of the ways in which the European Union effectively asserts the fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law is through its External Cooperation Programs, whereby, on the invitation of local authorities, it provides support in the form of electoral assistance projects and election observation missions.
Efforts to entice investors under “business as usual” conditions, which provide only modest incentives to pursue projects that strengthen economic sustainability, are no longer tenable.
In order to reduce unemployment and complete much-needed public-works projects, he hired workers and paid them with “work receipts” that could be used to pay local taxes.
Russian officials have expressed some interest in these projects (some of which were originally proposed by the Kremlin), but they have insisted on first achieving consensus with the US on underlying strategic principles.
They should instead consider cooperating on concrete BMD projects.
This “internationalization” includes more than America’s “Plan Colombia” aid, for the EU has also coughed up $280 million for social and development projects, though much, much more is needed.
Some favor stimulating growth through investment projects, while others emphasize structural reform.
Although Colombia’s government announced a few weeks ago a strategy based on important infrastructure work, its impact will be limited: most of the investment was already in the budget last year, and the officials in charge of public works have consistently demonstrated inefficiency when executing large-scale projects.
Yet many of the governments responsible for protecting these sites within their borders are not only failing to take strong climate action; they are actively pursuing dirty energy projects like coal mines and coal-fired power plants.
But, knowing what we know today, initiating such damaging dirty energy projects is indefensible.
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