But nothing can happen without a working infrastructure.
However, the US has spent over $100bn since the mid-1980s, with only a limited working infrastructure to show for it.
It supported early land reform including land reclamation, irrigation work, infrastructure building, and provision of electricity and water to rural areas but did little to stimulate the economy.
Or a Britain with people with proper skills, high productivity, a working infrastructure, competitive markets, a banking sector that serves business".
The President tried to work infrastructure spending into the fiscal-cliff negotiations at the end of 2012, once again to no avail.
To make the numbers work, infrastructure investors would have to pay much lower prices for infrastructure assets, perhaps some 30percentt below last year's levels for the funds to achieve a 12percentt return at the lower leverage levels that now apply.
In an attempt to play catch-up, the Panamanian government will invest $20bn £12.4bnn) in public-works infrastructure in the coming years, including a $5.2bn expansion of the Panama Canal scheduled for completion in 2014.
In addition, increased financial support from governmental institutions could be obtained to establish a working infrastructure for surgical research.
We all want and deserve a working infrastructure, good schools, secure borders, safe air and water, reliable mass transit, fair and reasonable healthcare, and cleaner energy.
A city filled with tree-lined streets, working infrastructure and beauty, his fondest memories were of going to see movies in the old colonial theaters downtown.
