Sentences with phrase «public infrastructure investment»

But what if we were to take a deep dive into public infrastructure investment — for example, green technology?

Non-residential building approvals have increased to be above the levels of recent years and there is a large pipeline of public infrastructure investment to be completed (Graph 4).

The key argument of leading «salt water» Keynesian economists like Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz and Larry Summers is that governments can and should drive faster growth through deficit financed public infrastructure investment, which would boost short - term growth and also raise productivity and longer term growth prospects.

The «Building Alberta» clause — passing legislation that compels the government to publicly disclose criteria for determining public infrastructure investment priorities, a clear public infrastructure priority list, and a detailed explanation for changing the priority list when that occurs.

In addition, full implementation of the government's National Development Plan envisages, inter alia, significant public infrastructure investment at 10 % of GDP focused on transport, energy and water.

«Also positive is the allocation of R6 billion for purposes which include drought relief and to augment public infrastructure investment.»

It's private and public infrastructure investment, as well as the strength of its local economy and access to capital help too.

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 services.

This turns the rental value of land — value created by society and public infrastructure investment — into a flow of interest to the banks.

As Simon Patten, the first economics professor at the nation's first business school (the Wharton School) explained, public infrastructure investment is a «fourth factor of production.»

In both cases, Conservative parties were defeated by parties promising moderate progressive platforms that included tax increases and significant increases to public infrastructure investment and explicit commitments to run deficit budgets, for at least the short - term period in the case of the NDP.

«We know the formula for waterfront success — remove the barriers to access, create the public infrastructure investments necessary to draw people to the water's edge and with new public excitement and critical mass comes the private sector investment that holds the key to turn things around,» Higgins said in a statement.

The study, supported by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation (NSF), found that most of the coastal communities do not have an overarching strategy for building urban disaster resilience and lack coordination between multiple urban systems, including land use activities, natural environments and public infrastructure investments, particularly in Texas.