The investment challenge

摘要

Investments are a precondition of future sustainable growth. However, investments are not just about competitiveness, but about maintaining our quality of life. As Germany currently shows, good economic numbers are a necessary, but far from sufficient, precondition of strong investment activity. On the one hand, we expect economic output to rise by an annual average of 1.8% in real terms in both 2015 and 2016. At the same time, despite a recent upward trend, public-sector investment-which often helps to pave the way for private-sector investment-is still growing relatively slowly. There is also scope for more dynamism in many key areas of private-sector investment.