And while IT requires some infrastructure spending, clean energy requires trillions of dollars of infrastructure investments.
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Billions of dollars in infrastructure investments especially on large, clunky sports facilities don't automatically drive up prices.
The country has a growing economic role in Africa, including telecommunications and infrastructure investments.
The billons of infrastructure investments announced by the President will drive new jobs in manufacturing.
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We need to find creative ways to fund critical infrastructure investments from both public and private sources.
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Because big exploration, extraction and infrastructure investments required pots of capital, long-term contracts became an industry norm.
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This increased serviceability and flexibility drives improved total-cost for infrastructure investments as well as higher levels of resiliency.
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The Mayor specifically highlighted the Chicago Infrastructure Trust, the first public-private financing model for infrastructure investments in the country.
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It includes a combination of direct spending, such as infrastructure investments, tax relief, and an extension of the payroll tax cut.
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Many argue that business should make infrastructure investments that support its success.
Carlyle has had investments in the transportation sector in the past, and the spokesman left the door open to future infrastructure investments.
We help communities and network providers across the globe develop, capitalize, implement and leverage sustainable infrastructure investments for civic and economic transformation.
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The on-and-off talks over several months were closely watched by the international community, particularly China, which has major infrastructure investments in the region.
And increasingly, Hyper Giant strategies are coalescing around similar infrastructure investments as the giants compete on content, capacity (bandwidth, storage, compute), cost and performance.
Mr. Singh is planning a range of measures to jump-start growth, including encouraging state-run firms to make major infrastructure investments and streamlining regulations in the power sector.
After several years and billions of dollars in infrastructure investments by current Alaska producers like ExxonMobil, BP and Anadarko Petroleum, ANWR could produce 1 million barrels of oil a day for 40 years.
Much of the economic advice to Africa, which focuses only on the macroeconomic impacts of large infrastructure investments and less on the microeconomic benefits of such financial outlays, is standing in the way of common sense.
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While this might boost support for the president's Peronist party in the coming legislative elections, Argentina's dismal track record of infrastructure investments by state-owned enterprises should give pause to voters concerned about the quality of their utility services.
And a growing number seem to be suspicious of any federal involvement at all in infrastructure investments, despite the fact that it was a Republican president, Dwight Eisenhower, who created the interstate highway system in the 1950s with large dollops of federal cash.
In both scenarios, the amount of electricity supplied through the power grid is lower during peak periods, which improves reliability, reduces rates by avoiding the use of high-priced power plants during peak hours and delays capital intensive infrastructure investments needed to maintain the grid.
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Beyond the unnecessary cost of legacy regulations, Congress and the FCC must also do more to rein in the inefficient and sometimes corrupt practices of local zoning regulators, who delay or deny applications for new infrastructure investments essential to meeting the exploding demand of mobile broadband users.
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Infrastructure investments could include bridge and highway construction and repair, new commuter and high-speed rail lines, upgrading communications systems, renovating or building new schools, community colleges and state-of-the art job training facilities, investing in dams, waterways and water treatment facilities, reclaiming key wetlands, and improving the basic livability of impoverished neighborhoods.
And if we make those choices now -- and that includes investments in infrastructure, investments in education, investments in manufacturing and innovation -- we will be growing faster, we will be stronger economically.
But we're not going to reduce the deficit by gutting education investments, gutting investments that we make in our infrastructure, gutting our investments in basic science and research that can lead to discoveries in clean energy or lead to discoveries in curing cancer.
Still, banks and private-equity firms have been looking to expand infrastructure-project investments as a way to diversify.
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By 2025, the report forecast, growth would decline to an annual average of 5%, as the Chinese work force ages, productivity slows and infrastructure and other investments produce lower returns.
The government will be trying to sound creative on the subject of growth later this week, when it provides more details of its plans to leverage more private sector infrastructure and housing investments.
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And that's why we have come together around a plan that combines hundreds of billions in tax cuts for the middle class with direct investment in areas like health care, energy, education, and infrastructure -- investments that will save jobs, create new jobs and new businesses, and help our economy grow again, now and in the future.
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