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Efficient transportation, quality health services, and broadband Internet access can help smaller cities attract investment in sectors that do not rely on agglomeration effects.
We would expect to see manufacturers holding job fairs, and when not enough workers showed up, we would expect to see manufacturers offering higher wages to attract workers into their plants, and then raising prices to cover their higher costs.
These include startups, IT companies that use local talent, organic-agro small and medium-size enterprises, export-oriented pharmaceutical companies, efforts to attract the international film industry to Greek locations, and educational programs that take advantage of Greek intellectual output and unrivaled historic sites.
The abundance of liquidity sloshing around the world – the result of developed countries’ ultra-accommodative monetary policies – has made the task more difficult still, as the smallest sign of growth in an emerging economy can attract foreign capital.
Who can attract the most talented people, educate them and their children, and give as many individuals as possible the opportunity to work productively?
A leader is only as good as the people who work for him, so organizations must make it a high priority to attract and retain good staff and rid themselves of those who lack professional integrity or competence.
As a Canadian analyst put it, “the combined effect of an advanced capital market and a strong military machine to defend that market, and other safety measures, such as a strong tradition of property rights protection and a reputation for honoring dues, has made it possible to attract capital with great ease.”
Moreover, wage flexibility meant that substantially slower wage growth in the states that lost industries helped to attract and retain other industries.
By contrast, companies whose managers believe that a competitive marketplace is no place for ethical behavior will suffer if and when consumers take their business elsewhere; government regulation and fines force them to act; or they become unable to attract an educated and ever-more discerning workforce.
He was able to attract attention mainly by delivering speeches and encouraging his followers to circulate the text.
Increasingly, that means gaming the system, by focusing on work that promises short-term yields, pursuing “hot” research topics, spending more time on self-promotion (facilitated by the proliferation of social media), and slicing and dicing their work to attract maximum attention.
Moreover, policymakers will have to develop a sophisticated immigration strategy to attract high-skill workers, even as they restrict the movement of people overall.
There is an opportunity for the finance industry to participate, too, through so-called impact investing, which aims to achieve both social progress and financial returns high enough to attract mainstream private investors.
Another promising opportunity are investments in the riskiest stage of the development process for new drugs: the phase between basic research and human clinical trials, which has traditionally struggled to attract funding.
Open societies educate or attract people with varied and valuable kinds of know-how, and they prosper that way.
But most Indians believe that the BJP pressured the EC to delay the announcement as long as possible, so that it could attract voters with last-minute giveaways that had nothing to do with flood relief.
Megafunding Drug ResearchSEATTLE – As price-gouging practices by a handful of drug companies attract headlines, one troubling aspect of the story remains underplayed.
Most disappointing, even countries that have put their macroeconomic house in order and have made progress in governance have found it difficult to attract investment outside of the natural-resource sector.
But a broader economic initiative is also needed to mobilize a critical mass of European and international financial resources to attract investment to the region and modernize its infrastructures and services.
Public diplomacy and the power to attract and persuade become increasingly important, but public diplomacy is changing.
In order to attract the FDI needed to achieve this, southern African countries have enacted laws aimed at encouraging greater private sector participation, with special emphasis on foreign investment.
After all, Russian banks did not instill enough confidence to attract vast deposits, and they had neither the necessary information nor skills to lend sensibly.
Lacking in domestic savings and wanting to grow, the US must import surplus savings from abroad, and run massive current-account deficits to attract the foreign capital.
Opposition parties in Malaysia, Cambodia, and other Southeast Asian countries attract a high share of young people, as do many of the media organizations and civil-society groups now under pressure.
The long-term future of South Africa’s foreign policy is uncertain: its emergence as a power of substance with a claim to a seat in a reformed UN Security Council will ultimately depend on the government’s capacity to attract foreign investment sufficient to help deliver economic and social goods to the country’s black majority.
For starters, because Chinese firms are not starved for capital – thanks to China’s chronic savings glut – gaining access to foreign technologies is their main motivation for trying to attract direct investment from abroad.
Will banks be willing to part with the assets at a low enough price to attract private investment?
This must change, with the EU demonstrating its capacity to attract the talent and labor needed to ensure economic growth and competitiveness.
The UK would be free to loosen regulations and lower taxes in order to attract investments for which a foothold in the EU is not necessary.
For example, though the recent reduction in the corporate-tax rate was necessary to encourage economic growth and attract investment, it seems to many Japanese to be a questionable move at a time when the consumption-tax rate has been increased and measures to address deflation are pushing up prices.
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