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Last December, the State Council decided to introduce a negative list for market access that applies to all investment activities in China, by both domestic and foreign investors.
Economists call these “non-tradable activities,” because they are not undertaken with distant customers in mind.
In contrast to non-tradable activities, a place’s export activities need to be pretty good to convince out-of-town customers – who have ample other options – to buy from local producers.
The higher the productivity and the quality of export activities, the higher the wages they can pay and still remain competitive.
Because they are subject to greater competition, export activities tend to undergo faster technological and productivity improvements than other parts of the economy.
The needs of export activities are often quite distinct.
The specific rules, infrastructure, skills, and technological mastery that export activities require tend to be different from those needed for the non-tradable activities that usually generate the bulk of a place’s employment.
While diversification into new areas is always challenging, it is particularly difficult for tradable activities, which have to face foreign competition from the start.
By contrast, pioneers in non-tradable activities start with a captive market.
To survive and thrive, societies need to pay special attention to those activities that produce goods and services they can sell to non-residents.
Non-tradable activities are akin to a country’s sports leagues: different people like different teams.
Those engaged in tradable activities are like the national team: we should all root for them – and organize ourselves to make sure they succeed.
UNEP also offered clear and detailed recommendations, including emergency measures to ensure safe drinking water; cleanup activities targeting the mangroves and soils; public-health studies to identify and counteract the consequences of pollution; and a new regulatory framework.
As Hedges points out, neither of these terms is properly specified; nor does the law define an act of terror, or the activities of those purportedly “engaged in hostilities against the United States.”
After all, there is no way whatsoever to calculate the marginal products of different individuals in cooperative productive activities.
It is the breakdown of non-economistic, common-sense ways of valuing human activities –framing them in larger social contexts – that has led to today’s spurious methods of calculating pay.
The London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development could join this effort by extending its activities to the region, which could be coupled with the creation of dedicated services to support the growth of job-creating enterprises.
While Mueller is investigating Kushner’s campaign activities, he is also understood to be taking a close look at Kushner’s immense real estate business.
The reason is microeconomic, not macroeconomic: you can sell only so much steel or auto parts at home, and labor productivity in service industries does not match that of export-oriented activities.
An astonishing number of Pakistani TV stations openly discuss the activities of Sharif and the other exiled former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto.
But some 60% of all occupations could have at least 30% of their constitutive tasks or activities automated, based on current demonstrated technologies.
The activities most susceptible to automation in the near term are routine cognitive tasks like data collection and data processing, as well as routine manual and physical activities in structured, predictable environments.
Such activities now account for 51% of US wages, and are most prevalent in sectors that employ large numbers of workers, including hotel and food services, manufacturing, and retail trade.
Despite their legitimate fears of military escalation in the South China Sea, Southeast Asia’s citizens remain optimistic that a peaceful, diplomatic resolution will be achieved, and that China will fulfill its commitment to forge a code of conduct for activities in ASEAN’s maritime heartland.
Generating more “liquid” (jobs) requires not discouraging the entrepreneurs on whose activities sustainable job creation ultimately depends.
But, when it came to corruption, they turned out to be very wrong – a fact that became apparent last year, when local and international media uncovered a raft of corrupt activities, from awarding contracts to friends to purchasing houses from the same friends at below market prices.
To fail would risk igniting a severe political backlash, including a spontaneous escalation of anti-regime activities.
The basis for this claim was a single report from the World Wildlife Fund that itself cited only one study, which didn’t even look at climate change, but rather at the impact of human activities like logging and burning.
Free markets alone cannot cope with the “externalities” that arise when economic activities produce harmful consequences that impose no direct cost on individual producers and consumers.
But it is folly to think that the US can curb Iran’s nuclear and regional activities by unilaterally walking away.
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