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Without skills, people find themselves locked out of productive, rewarding economic activities, leaving them unable to meet their needs for housing, healthcare and nutrition.
Given how extensively the NSA’s activities have degraded global trust in America’s government and IT sector, nothing less than complete transparency is required.
Why do the inefficient firms survive, trapping resources in low-productivity activities?
They specialize in food preparation, retail, construction, repairs, Internet cafes, and myriad other activities that can be carried out at home and sold to neighbors (often through a window facing the street).
In a recent survey of 384 firms in the eurozone by the management consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers, two-thirds of the respondents said that they had reshored some activities during the past year, and 50% plan to do so in the next.
Iraq’s Sunni vice president is a fugitive in Turkey, with multiple death sentences rendered against him for alleged terrorist activities, though the judgments were based on the confessions of bodyguards who had been tortured (one died during the “investigation”).
Of course, he did mainly fill his own pockets – and his social and political activities certainly were not entirely altruistic, either.
It is still too complex; activities are still too concentrated in large institutions; and the specter of “too big to fail” remains.
Globalization entails many other features, including the surge in cross-border financial transactions and tourism, data exchange, and other economic activities.
These strategies typically involve far more risk – and sophistication – than the activities of traditional commercial banks.
Such a forum will not be a substitute for the activities carried out under various specialized UN agencies, but it will support the work of national academies as well as other science advisory bodies.
Any economy’s success is very much affected by the performance of that sliver of activities that can sell their output to outsiders.
These “export” activities have an outsize and amplified impact on the growth of the local economy as a whole.
So, these “export” activities face a level of competition that the local grocer, coffee shop, or barber does not.
The goal should be clear: as a town’s “export” industries are disrupted, new “export” activities must take their place, lest the town shrink and become impoverished.
They granted concessions to build new ports, in order to facilitate logistics activities around the Canal.
That is why the tunnels do such a roaring trade, which Hamas taxes to fund its activities.
Compared to R&D activities, fundamental research is cheap and it is here that, although damaged, a solid Russian tradition remains that can be built upon.
Through a variety of mechanisms, we are working to make citizens’ lives easier, streamline business activities, and relieve the authorities of extraneous work that diverts attention from important strategic tasks.
Indeed, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) records numerous cases of theft and other unauthorized activities involving nuclear and radioactive material every year.
Those resources would no longer contribute directly to investigations into terrorist activities.
But such measures will merely worsen the situation: specialization in activities in which unskilled workers are not needed intensifies, even more capital will leave the country, and even more people will be attracted from abroad, driving more domestic residents into the welfare system.
Special interests hold undue sway over official decision-makers in many countries, and regulators are always prone to see the world through the eyes of the people whose activities they are supposed to oversee.
Most officials now concede the existence of systemic risk as a form of “pollution,” meaning that banks and other financial firms do not necessarily internalize the full costs of their structures and activities.
For starters, Western leaders and institutions should distinguish between state-sponsored activities and legitimate, mutually beneficial cultural, civic, and educational exchanges among private citizens and entities.
As a result, even ostensibly independent or private activities can carry political and reputational risks for Western organizations, which may be accused of acting as “agents of influence” for China.
The economic benefits include job creation in the short term, “re-shoring” of some manufacturing activities in the medium term, and, lower macroeconomic vulnerability to global oil shocks in the long term.
Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.
In that tradition, the economist Milton Friedman wrote, in his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom : “there is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.”
Instead of allowing a single self-interested sector to dictate the economy’s functioning, policymakers must determine precisely what the acceptable balance is between risky speculative activities and financial stability – and ensure that the financial sector adheres to it.
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