Sentences with phrase «nonproductive investments»

Freeing up much needed seed capital to make the economy grow instead of making nonproductive investments is the key to prosperity.

For investment to rise quickly, there almost certainly has to be either a rise in unsold inventory as exports drop or a rise in nonproductive investment into infrastructure.

When China was underinvested, investments were nearly always productive, and so the ability to ignore budget constraints and hide the costs of nonproductive investment in the form of rising debt had little effect on the GDP data — or, to put it differently, rising debt did not reflect a rising debt burden.