"Far-reaching reforms" are needed to assist global investment in areas such as infrastructure, a report says.
The best-performing shares are not in sectors that would benefit from a recovery, such as infrastructure and banks.
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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Government investment outlays in areas such as infrastructure, clean energy, and communications technology increased by roughly 50 percent between the first and second quarters of 2010.
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On Jan. 31, Soros called for more Federal stimulus, but only if spent on programs that paid for themselves, such as infrastructure and education, to improve the economy.
The manifesto says Indian industry must essentially be built by Indians, and foreign investment can be only a modest supplement (though it has an important role in some areas, such as infrastructure).
The Group of Thirty - a body made up of senior international economists - has warned that far-reaching reforms are needed to assist global investment in areas such as infrastructure, which is critical for growth.
One, much of the stimulus money for infrastructure is going into repaving roads instead of long-term projects such as water infrastructure, which is in woeful shape.
Some governments are cut off now from funding for necessities such as repairing infrastructure.
Some areas where the state says there are problems, such as repairing infrastructure and restoring the fishing industry, are not included in the plan.
This option carries risks, while it remains to be seen if the expected benefits will materialize, such as rural infrastructure, jobs and the contribution to domestic food needs.
In other words, a foreign inflow, as well as financing good things such as public infrastructure and corporate investment, is also associated with debt defaults, inflation and currency crises.
That is how the trio founded Tresalia ("tres aliadas" or three allies) and started investing in sectors with high growth potential such as technology infrastructure, telecommunications, real estate development and land reserves.
But firms may overlook some of the potential drawbacks when making the decision to outsource, such as poor infrastructure, higher turnover in the workforce and a lack of local suppliers and maintenance services.
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The report mentions other long-term priorities such as ensuring transport links, improving island infrastructure such as the roads, harbours and broadband access and speed, security of energy supply and planning for increasing health and pension costs due to an ageing population.
The President urged the billionaire prince to invest substantially in the country and pointed out key opportunities in sectors such as tourism, infrastructure, real estate as well as telecommunications and infrastructure.
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Industries that rely on government contracts, such as transport and infrastructure, are likely to feel the most impact.
And in comparison with other key sectors, such as manufacturing, infrastructure construction activity creates a higher proportion of jobs.
It certainly has not flowed into such basic infrastructure as roads, bridges and ports that are needed to keep key industries competitive.
If some of the additional revenue is used for public investments with a high return, such as education, infrastructure and research, it raises growth further.
This will benefit not only unions, who will build and operate these systems, but companies like Siemens who push for greater rail expansions at the expense of maintaining and improving such critical infrastructure as roads.
Moreover, a strictly price-based comparison between clean and dirty energy ignores many of the other non-market barriers that must be solved for clean energy to adopted on a meaningful scale, such as regulatory and infrastructure hurdles, issues with intermittency, technology risk, and other barriers.
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There was criticism, too, of the fact that many projects were of a kind more likely to benefit the middle and upper classes which, in poor countries as in rich ones, are often better able to take advantage of infrastructure, such as new hospitals, which the bank helps to create.
The gap shows, especially in infrastructure such as roads, sea- and airports, and electricity supply.
The new country is lacking in basic infrastructure such as schools, hospitals, good roads, telecom, and more.
Coastal erosion has devastating effects, inducing the loss of infrastructure such as roads.
Now they want an extension of the first-time homebuyer credit, and more federal spending on infrastructure such as air-traffic control.
Mr Perkins called for the co-ordinated development of the land with infrastructure such as schools, medical facilities and public open space.
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