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Examples of internal improvements are: airports, canals, dams, dikes, pipelines, railroads, roads, tunnels, and artificial harbours.

Public works is a slightly broader term, it can include such things as: mines, schoolA school is any place designated for learning. The range of institutions covered by the term varies from country to country. In the United Kingdom, the term school refers primarily to pre- university institutions, and these can for the most part be divides, hospitalA hospital today is a centre for professional health care provided by physicians and nurses. During the Middle Ages it could serve other functions, such as almshouse for the poor, or hostel for pilgrims. The name comes from Latin hospes (host), which is as, water purificationWater purification or drinking water treatment is the process of removing contaminants from surface water or groundwater to make it safe and palatable for human consumption. A wide variety of technologies may be used, depending on the raw water source, co and sewage treatmentSewage treatment is the process that removes the majority of the contaminants from sewage and produces an liquid effluent suitable for disposal to the natural environment and also produces a sludge. Historical sewage treatment As recently as 100 years ago centers.

In some cases, it is argued that internal improvements can be used to reduce unemploymentIn economics, a person who is able and willing to work yet is unable to find a paying job is considered unemployed . The unemployment rate measures the number of unemployed workers as a proportion of the total civilian labor force, where the latter includ. Opponents of internal improvement programs argue that such projects should be undertaken by the private sectorThe private sector of a nation's economy consists of those entities which are not controlled by the state i. a variety of entities such as private firms and companies, corporations, private banks, non-governmental organizations, etc. See also public secto, and not the public sectorThe public sector is any part of a country's economy which is controlled or operated by the state or local government. The public sector often includes public services such as education or healthcare, and nationalised (government owned) companies and indu. However, the private sector lacks the ability to make large investments that will not begin to provide a return for 50 years or more; consequently, almost all significant infrastructure in the U.S., including the Transcontinental Railroad, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Interstate highway system, were created through federal investment -- through private subcontractors. Advocates of American System Economics point out that such federal investments in infrastructure are counter-inflationary, because they increase the overall productive power of the economy, in contrast to federal investments that prop up speculative bubbles, as was the trend in the 1990s.

See also: Jean-Baptiste Colbert, New Deal, infrastructural capital, American System (economics), Public Works Administration