Help in answering economic questions Case 2
Please help in answering economic questions. I have attached the file with links. Please have answer related to the links and paper provided.
1. Why are governments often unwilling to undertake (a) new infrastructure projects, (b) maintenance projects?
2. Is a program of infrastructure investment necessarily a Keynesian policy? What accelerator effects would you expect from infrastructure investments?
3. Explain the difference between the ‘spill-out’ and ‘pull-in’ effects of different types of public investments in a specific location. Is it possible for a project to have both effects?
4. What answer would you give to the teacher who asked the following question of US Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers? “The paint is chipping off the walls of this school, not off the walls at McDonald’s or the movie theatre. So why should the kids believe this society thinks their education is the most important thing?”
5. Explain the “bridge to nowhere” problem and it’s solutions? Why is the ‘castle in the air’ element of private projects during a boom an example of the fallacy of composition?
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Dedicating money to improve or create new infrastructure is a great way of improving the economy this is because through the infrastructure we see people get employed because jobs are created. American politics even agree that investing in infrastructure is a good thing for a country to do. This been so we expect that most governments in most countries should be willing to invest on infrastructure but we get that most governments do not want to undertake new infrastructure projects
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