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Potential for public-private partnerships exist in energy and telecommunications projects, in wells and irrigation, in the construction sector, in infrastructure such as roads, airports, and harbors, and in processing plants for agro industries, meat, fruit, and vegetables.
In implementing its so-called “one belt, one road” strategy, China will pursue investments affecting some 60 countries – including in Central Asia, where its portfolio already contains projects worth more than $50 billion.
The second step was to organize cash-for-work projects that built dams, rehabilitated springs, and constructed roads, thereby helping people to strengthen their small farms and improve their resilience to future droughts.
Other projects – including those supported by the United States’ Feed the Future program, the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program, and organizations such as the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa – are finding new ways to bolster the productivity of small farmers across the developing world.
The new governments will face the immediate challenge of creating jobs, for which the only available recipe is investment in large-scale public-works projects.
Finally, the international community can help Arab governments to establish a secure and predictable legal and regulatory framework for public-private partnerships for large-scale infrastructure projects.
The fiscal problems of Greece and Spain were also the result of spending a great deal on high-technology and high-prestige projects: facilities for the Olympic Games, new airport buildings, high-speed train links.
For example, fossil-fuel subsidies should be reconsidered, because they discourage investment in energy-efficiency projects, and impede the development of renewable technologies.
Meanwhile, planning officials in Moldova have used crowdfunding to raise millions of dollars from the diaspora to fund sustainable development projects at home.
In France, the contribution to ITER is more than all the available funding for research projects in all our physics laboratories.
It also prevents funds from being channeled to private-sector investment projects with far higher rates of return than the government can offer.
Estimates of what people in poor nations are willing to pay for piped water do not exceed the costs for many water and sanitation projects.
For example, after repeatedly invoking “shovel-ready” projects to pass his February 2009 stimulus bill, Obama later admitted “…there’s no such thing as a shovel-ready project.”
The EMU should have a “golden rule” for public and social investment, with a clear definition of such projects and a mechanism for assessing their validity.
The Congressional Budget Office projects that defense outlays, relative to GDP, will continue to decline to just 2.7% in 2027.
China may not have an infrastructure deficit, but it has something else: large construction companies that welcome the opportunity to undertake additional projects abroad.
But while South Africa has highly capable architecture, construction, and engineering sectors, its current share of foreign-built projects in Sub-Saharan Africa stands at only 7%, compared to 32% for China.
By deprioritizing human rights, Xi will be freer to pursue ambitious projects such as the Belt and Road Initiative, the aim of which is to enhance China’s influence throughout Eurasia and the Asia-Pacific region.
The dismal image that Europe projects to the world nowadays does no justice to reality.
Although this infrastructure is financed mainly by individual EU member states using their own funds, the TEN-T is binding and marks out the priority projects for each member.
“With all these projects, half of China may well have to die.
No one who is familiar with Turkey would be surprised to learn that there was large-scale corruption surrounding construction projects.
And no financing has been offered for public-investment projects in the southern countries.
A decade later, in response to the global financial crisis, China loosened credit quotas and planning controls on SOE-run local-government infrastructure projects.
Similarly, multilateral development banks are investing just 1% of their total spending on ICT projects, and only about 4% of this limited investment is being spent on policy development, work that is critical if digital economies are to be well regulated.
Fashionable projects such as providing laptops to pupils attract a lot of financial support, but it is not always money well spent.
To maximize the number of units built, housing ministries make sure that projects meet minimum specifications below a certain per-unit cost threshold.
It is no coincidence that one of the World Bank’s largest lending portfolios – $35 billion worth of investments – comprises water projects.
The UK is poised to take similar action, “allowing” local government pension funds to invest in infrastructure projects.
Last month, the National Institutes of Health, the US government agency responsible for biomedical research, approved a report recommending the cancelation of the majority of NIH-funded projects involving invasive biomedical research on chimpanzees.
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