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In Germany public investment – government spending on durable goods, such as roads, schools and kindergartens, as well as on data networks, the response to climate change, social housing, health care and infrastructure[1] – is significantly lower than in other developed countries. That is beginning to be seen as a serious problem and there are growing calls for change.