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But if history is a guide, even strong sanctions may not be enough to persuade Iran’s rulers to negotiate constructively and accept meaningful constraints on their nuclear activities.
Ban, who has just marked the half-way point in his five-year term in office, has so far been unable to attract a large worldwide audience for his activities.
Anyone privy to details of such activities cannot comment on them, but one story circulating in the research community involved attempts to introduce condoms into African porn as part of an anti-AIDS effort.
Consequently, France has long suffered from anemic growth and high unemployment – a perfect example of what can happen when the state intervenes in economic activities.
Environmental taxes could lead to better air and water quality, even as they raise substantial revenues; congestion taxes would improve quality of life in cities; property and capital-gains taxes would encourage higher investment in productive activities, promoting growth.
This must include incentives to stimulate private-sector investment – especially in new, environmentally-friendly technologies and labor-intensive economic activities – and collaborative industrial policy to strengthen economic diversification in developing countries.
Even so, Russia and China continue to take a much more lenient approach to Iran than Europe and the US have since the International Atomic Energy Agency’s report in November 2011 described in detail Iran’s activities in pursuing the capability to produce nuclear weapons.
As Iran’s uranium-enrichment and other weapons-development activities continue unabated, the US needs to make a break with the old rules of engagement.
Some officials even require journalists to sign contracts mandating favorable coverage of government activities.
As more activities become digitized, China’s integration into the global value chain will increasingly occur in digital spaces.
And the signatories of the Peoples’ Declaration for Climate Justice from Pacific Island countries are committed to bringing a case against big polluters for activities resulting in the destruction of their homes.
And because stockholders or raiders can’t force streamlining, governments must require these banks to shed activities that no one can manage or regulate and stick to hands-on case-by-case lending.
Suspicions that these sites could be involved in enrichment activities proved to be well founded.
The High Cost of High FinanceLONDON – As the United Kingdom’s Brexit negotiations stumble on, other European countries are using the period of uncertainty about the future regulation of the continent’s financial markets to tempt firms and activities away from London to rival centers.
In fact, it is the North whose activities are inherently hostile, and the South, along with the US, that is focused on defense.
Self-standing electrical motors allowed machines, the workers operating them, and their activities all to be reorganized in more efficient ways.
The beneficiaries of globalization are typically those countries that complemented it with a strategy to promote new activities, policies that favored the real economy over finance, and sequential reforms that emphasized high-productivity employment.
To his mind, it is time for Europeans to repay the favor, even though it isn’t all that clear which European economic and commercial activities benefited from supposed US-conferred advantages, unless one links trade with security.
The upshot of this system is that many developing countries that should have benefited from the globalization of value chains have remained confined to low-productivity activities that yield only limited economic value and do not even foster wider technological upgrading.
Their activities, they proclaim, are aimed not just at maximizing profits for shareholders, but also at creating a better future for their workers, the communities in which they work, and the world more generally.
Some 50,000 service men and women have participated in those activities thus far.
And it could make sense to produce a better GDP, which adds uncounted benefits, subtracts the costs of externalities, and excludes activities that generate no wealth.
In late July, China reportedly threatened to attack Vietnamese bases in the Spratlys if Vietnam did not stop its oil exploration activities in an area that lies within Vietnam’s continental shelf, but also within Beijing’s notorious nine-dash line.
At Vietnam’s request, Japan has also provided the country with six patrol boats to support its defense activities in the South China Sea.
Anat Admati, a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, focuses on bank capital – specifically, the incentives that banks have to fund their activities with very high leverage – little equity and a great deal of debt.
Financial sector analysis should become fully integrated into the IMF’s surveillance activities.
So the state should have only a few firms in strategic sectors or in activities that are rife with market failures.
For example, the South-South development cooperation uses all three activities to capitalize on recipient countries’ economic strengths.
And the Caribbean does not necessarily offer many sports activities besides track and field, for which relatively few material resources are needed to create champions.
But, as the US-based political scientist Pierre Landry and his colleagues have observed, economic growth is key, particularly among officials at the county and municipal levels, where much of the government’s growth-enhancing activities – such as infrastructure investment – take place.
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