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Rapid growth in Asian countries has required a larger investment in both economic and social infrastructures, and improvements in these areas are visible.

Washington insists it has not actively discouraged countries from joining the new bank, but it has questioned whether the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will have sufficient standards of governance and environmental and social safeguards.

However, a budget deficit that takes the form of transfer payments to banks, as in the case of the post-September 2008 bank bailout, the Federal Reserve's $ 2 trillion in cash - for - trash financial swaps and the $ 700 billion QE2 credit creation by the Federal Reserve to lend to banks at 0.25 % interest in 2011, has a different effect from deficits that reflect social spending programs, Social Security and Medicare, public infrastructure investment or the purchase of other goods and sersocial spending programs, Social Security and Medicare, public infrastructure investment or the purchase of other goods and serSocial Security and Medicare, public infrastructure investment or the purchase of other goods and services.

We heard voices saying that Canada and the world economy need increased social services, expanded public infrastructure investments and restored regimes of strict regulation for banks and investment houses.

Credit is a form of infrastructure, and such public investment is what enabled the United States to undersell foreign economies in the 19th and 20th centuries despite its high wage levels and social spending programs.

The committee was pleased with the specific inclusion of the one - year extension of the Mineral Exploration Tax Credit, and the $ 8.4 - billion investment in capacity - building, education and social infrastructure for First Nations.

Andrew Jackson, director of social and economic policy for the Canadian Labour Congress, agrees with Elizabeth Kelliher that the Canadian government should be making massive new investments in social housing, as well as many other areas of infrastructure.

In response to these strains, state and local governments have cut infrastructure investment, slashed support for higher education, cut spending on K — 12 education, cut spending on social benefits other than Medicaid, reduced administrative staff and reduced most other areas of the budget.

The recent federal election featured something of a debate on fiscal policy, with the Liberals promising to run modest deficits for three years in order to stimulate a sagging economy and finance needed long - term investments in infrastructure and social programs.

We have also facilitated the establishment of four local community - owned forest enterprises as tools for pooling investments in equipment and social infrastructure.

The # 25bn a year for infrastructure investment, # 8bn over the next Parliament for social care and yesterday's pledges on education spending were all more or less as expected.

And we have stayed true to that vision, even as oil prices went into freefall, we ramped up investments in infrastructure, as well as our social spending.»

You must take credit to put in the critical social infrastructure but you must put it in places where you would get return on investment.

The objectives of Ghana going to the IMF for the bailout was to restore debt sustainability and macroeconomic stability, to foster a return to high growth and job creation through agriculture, and infrastructure investment, while protecting social spending;

That was a development stall, for the new NCNC government could not match the old AGgovernment's huge investment on social and physical infrastructure.

Aside the infrastructure development and social investments made over the years which everyone admits was massive, the Mahama - led administration had taken certain decisions that had stabilised the Ghanaian economy.

It should tell you that there is something happening with the economy, the economy is becoming more resilient than it was in the past; and what we've done is to lay the basis for more investments by building on the social and economic infrastructure.

Since 1996, private finance initiatives have generated more than # 50 billion of private investment in social and economic infrastructure across the UK.

The plan itemizes the approach towards investing in people, including promoting social inclusion through social investment programmes for the vulnerable and targeted programmes for the North - East and Niger - Delta, job creation and youth empowerment and investments in human capital while outlining the competitiveness imperatives as enhancing infrastructure (power, roads, rail, ports and broadband services, and leveraging public - private partnerships (PPPs)-RRB-, improving the business environment through the initiatives under the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) and promoting digital - led growth.

«In this period of austerity, national economic uncertainty, unpredictability of federal funding, and rising social service costs there is an increasing risk that funding for infrastructure investments will be curbed to dangerous levels,» Ravitch said in a press release.

We will focus on critical things, infrastructure and social investments,» he said.

«We have also committed to investing these recovered funds on Infrastructure projects and our National Social Investment Programme.

That is more likely to happen if long - term infrastructure investment in social housing — that will also help control the welfare budget — starts now in the way the Liberal Democrats have articulated before and which our amendment restates.

In my model, growth between +2 % and -2 % essentially produces the same negative economic and social consequences - rising poverty, unemployment and inequality, low productivity, weak infrastructure, low capital investments and social and political instability!

Reform to improve schools, investment to build homes and infrastructure — because we know that's the only way to deliver real opportunity and social mobility.

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.

The Bureau said apart from the huge investments in security, the government of Aregbesola had prevented crime through its numerous programmes such as youths employments, infrastructure, social welfare schemes and others.

«I have come to realize that, beyond infrastructure and social amenities, the only way, we could transform our communities and create a sustainable future for ourselves is through strategic investment in the education of the children of our communities,» he said.

Rex joined an estimated 20,000 protesters, demanding sweeping North Carolina investments in classroom supplies, K - 12 infrastructure, personnel, and school support staff like nurses, counselors, social workers and psychologists.

Aside from any profit to be realized in infrastructure investment, the corporate world has every interest in freeing us of our driving chores so we can spend more time chalking up incremental charges shopping, blabbing, and social networking.

The Liberals had promised a 10 - year investment in social housing infrastructure, prioritizing affordable housing and seniors» facilities (including building more units and refurbishing existing units).

Liberals: Start a new, 10 - year investment in social housing infrastructure, prioritizing affordable housing and seniors» facilities (including building more units and refurbishing existing units); encourage the construction of new rental housing by removing all GST on new capital investments in affordable rental housing; loosening the existing qualification rules for the Home Buyers» Plan to allow more Canadians affected by sudden and significant life changes to access their RRSP savings for a down payment; review escalating home prices in high - priced markets, including Toronto and Vancouver, and review all policy tools that could keep homeownership within reach for more Canadians.

Municipal issuers have a key role to play in terms of: • Low - carbon technologies • Pollution control • Climate adaptation, such as disaster prevention and recovery We will seek to avoid purchasing the relatively few government - issued bonds that are explicitly issued to finance the development of projects, such as nuclear power plants or casinos, which are fundamentally misaligned with our investment objectives Sovereign Debt National governments around the world issue bonds (debt) to finance a wide variety of public goods including education, infrastructure, national defense, the judiciary and social welfare.

Extreme poverty can be ended through targeted investments in sustainable energy access, education, health, housing, social infrastructure and livelihoods for the poor.

We need to sustainability proof the future EU budget and make it serve the public good, promote social inclusion and strengthen European values, instead of wasting taxpayers» money on dirty fossil fuel investments, harmful and outdated farming practices, and large scale infrastructure projects that damage our health, destroy our environment, and jeopardise the safety and prosperity of our children.

PFIs must cease by 2020 direct, indirect, ancillary infrastructure and policy support for upstream and downstream fossil fuels, GHG - intensive projects, nuclear, large bioenergy and hydropower when more cost - effective and less damaging alternatives exist; All PFI investments must meet strict environmental and social development criteria and be assessed through a pro-poor, inclusive, climate - resilient and gender - responsive lens;

Installing solar panels on your home isn't primarily about cutting your own personal impact — it's about making a strategic investment in an emerging clean energy infrastructure, and choosing a point of leverage where you believe you can create wider social change.

It further opens up pension scheme investment in a range of social enterprises, particularly infrastructure, and much of the report is devoted to the practicalities of how pension schemes would go about this.

com CORPORATE TAX Minerva Bellorin, Aczalaw is a return of state services: we see investment in infrastructure, water and sanitation, electricity, telecommunications, hospitals, health services, education and all over the social area.

Investment in physical infrastructure for social purposes can deliver huge economic benefits to jurisdictions at the forefront of infrastructure development, as well as those at the beginning of their development journey.

This preparation requires a public education infrastructure that empowers teachers to teach and prioritizes investments to ensure that schools effectively address the learning, behavioral, social — emotional, and mental health needs of students.

Through the right to negotiate, native title parties were active participants in negotiating conditions such as employment on projects, contracts for ancillary work, local investment, social development programs, equity participation, infrastructure development, as well as issues specific to the native title rights being claimed.

TRAILS has been financially supported by various grants from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research NWO (Medical Research Council program grant GB - MW 940-38-011; ZonMW Brainpower grant 100-001-004; ZonMw Risk Behavior and Dependence grants 60 -60600-97-118; ZonMw Culture and Health grant 261-98-710; Social Sciences Council medium - sized investment grants GB - MaGW 480-01-006 and GB - MaGW 480-07-001; Social Sciences Council project grants GB - MaGW 452-04-314 and GB - MaGW 452-06-004; NWO large - sized investment grant 175.010.2003.005; NWO Longitudinal Survey and Panel Funding 481-08-013), the Dutch Ministry of Justice (WODC), the European Science Foundation (EuroSTRESS project FP - 006), Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure BBMRI - NL (CP 32), the participating universities, and Accare Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

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