"Infrastructure investment" refers to the act of spending money to build, maintain, or repair essential systems and structures that support a society. These may include roads, bridges, railways, power plants, schools, hospitals, and communication networks. It aims to improve public services, boost economic growth, and enhance the overall quality of life for people.
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Meeting this increased demand for electricity will require billions of dollars
of infrastructure investments and result in billions of tons of increased carbon dioxide emissions.
For a century, utilities expected electricity demand would grow indefinitely as the economy expanded, providing new opportunities
for infrastructure investments that return revenue to shareholders.
He was one of the first major investors to realize that railroad firms had been making badly
needed infrastructure investments that would eventually lead to robust growth and solid cash flow.
Experience with power plants and other long - lived
major infrastructure investments also suggests that in - service modifications, improvements, and maintenance will be a continuous and major business.
In recent years, for instance, the firm has been urging
huge infrastructure investments in many countries — estimating the world needs US$ 57 trillion in new infrastructure over the next 15 years.
On top of that, there's increasing evidence in the economic data that the benefits from
government infrastructure investments have begun to work their way through the economy, the bank said.
It benefits only the billionaire owners of these companies and their shareholders, while pushing rail fares still higher and threatening
national infrastructure investment.
So, if we are serious about boosting exports - especially in emerging markets - and achieving sustainable growth, the Government must
put infrastructure investment firmly at the top of its agenda.
Importantly, we'll continue to call on our political leaders at the state and federal levels to work with us to close the nation's
infrastructure investment gap.
There can be no departure from the old order unless the prime minister recognises the economic and social need for higher revenue spending as well as
glossy infrastructure investment.
Other governments around the world more successfully
manage infrastructure investments, health systems and environmental resources, apparently with greater flexibility, less corruption, lower costs and better outcomes.
Capital spending typically supports school construction and other
physical infrastructure investments that can fluctuate significantly from year to year in individual states, throwing off the underlying trend line.
But it seems likely to me that well -
targeted infrastructure investments will yield more economic growth than just the first infusion of cash because they enable more growth to occur in the future.
As for tax exempt municipal bonds, wrote the end of that arrangement could hamper the ability of investors to purchase them, which in turn would lead to a lack
of infrastructure investment.
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