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But the Project seems to represent the type of activity that can help produce visions for change.
Despite the recent rise in negative public sentiment, protest activity remains fragmented and invariably local in scope and demands.
All this activity has put Madrid back on the map, not only as a force in the global marketplace but in diplomacy too.
- Because political interference with regulation and competition policy (once old hat in Spain) makes companies uncompetitive, government must refrain from using regulation to control inflation as well as corporate activity.
Given increasing globalization of business activity; the rising importance of intangible capital that is difficult to price and easy to move (for example, patents and brands); competitive cuts in national corporate tax rates; and the spread of tax havens, income shifting and the resulting tax-base erosion have become a major policy concern throughout the OECD.
Such systems include transfer-pricing rules based on OECD guidelines (used by the US as well), limits on interest deductibility, and domestic taxation of some kinds of income earned in low-tax locations where companies report large earnings but carry out little real economic activity.
Indeed, scientists have not only identified some of the brain pathways that shape our ethical decisions, but also chemical substances that modulate this neural activity.
Changes in solar activity clearly cannot explain global warming.
Given that industrial policy broadly refers to any government decision, regulation, or law that encourages ongoing activity or investment in an industry, this should come as no surprise.
Taxes on speculative activity might encourage banks to focus greater attention on performing their key societal role of providing credit.
Successive Puerto Rican governments thought that the island’s economy was in “recession” and attempted to spur activity by increasing government spending.
But it is not clear that the lower interest rates and higher share prices have had any significant effect on real economic activity.
Economic activity (production, research, design, etc.) moved to any accessible country or region that had relatively inexpensive labor and human capital.
By interfering with the carbon, nitrogen, water, and phosphorus cycles, human activity changes the atmosphere, oceans, waterways, forests, and ice sheets, and diminishes biodiversity.
As the environmental consequences of human activity become increasingly apparent, so does humanity’s responsibility to mitigate them.
More generally, the Internet gives a sense of vastness to the world’s economic activity that was never available before.
We have seen photographs of hurricane and typhoon activity due to global warming, affecting people in Louisiana or Myanmar.
The younger generation of indigenous West Bank Palestinians, whose leaders began political activity in the uprising of the late 1970's, embraces a militant strategy that views the hardliners as burned-out old fogies, enervated by corruption.
The climate debate is no longer about causes; fossil fuels and human activity are the culprits.
The key moral question is whether, and at what point, their entrepreneurial activity exceed the bounds of policies set from the top.
While the fiscal stimulus packages enacted in the past two years have been helpful in achieving the current rise in economic activity, the path of future deficits can do substantial damage to long-run growth.
Despite statements to the contrary, no central bank, including the ECB, can simply focus on inflation and ignore what happens to economic activity.
The ECB’s defenders would say that such an outcome is purely hypothetical – and irrelevant – for there is no conflict between stabilizing inflation and sustaining the appropriate level of economic activity.
Price stability, according to this view, reduces uncertainty, thereby enabling firms and individuals to take the right decisions, so it is good, not bad, for economic activity.
But when an economy faces a major adverse shock, such as a sharp increase in oil prices, then the twin goals of stabilizing inflation and maintaining economic activity conflict, and the central bank’s job becomes more difficult.
In order to achieve its inflation goal, the ECB may have to contract activity until workers are, in effect, beaten into submission.
If this scenario plays out, the impact on economic activity and employment will be minimal.
Indeed, Chinese trade and investment are spurring market activity in North Korea’s northern region.
Pakistan’s internal struggles – from inter-communal conflict to relentless terrorist activity – are well known.
There may have been more savings opportunities for households and more diverse funding sources for firms, but the added value of asset-management activity was illusory.
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