Barriers
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But these risks usually are not financial; they reflect potential political and regulatory
barriers
at the national level.
These are the real
barriers
to infrastructure investment in Europe.
The often-invoked investment gap is mostly a result of wishful thinking, and the remaining
barriers
to investment have little to do with a lack of financing.
Is it unreasonable to point out that the inevitable creation of trade
barriers
that will ensue from Waxman-Markey could eventually cost the world ten times more than the damage climate change could ever have wrought?
Economists, politicians, and public figures have all raised concerns about the threat of tit-for-tat trade
barriers.
The US working class, which is being promised benefits from trade barriers, would actually be hardest hit by a trade war.
Over the last 30 years, the prevailing IP regime has erected more
barriers
to the use of knowledge, often causing the gap between the social returns to innovation and the private returns to widen.
Such deal making is usually accompanied by a threat of new
barriers
if companies do not cooperate.
In the case of nascent democracies, the formula that is now often made compulsory is this: lift all bans on political activities, liberalize the media, hold elections (the sooner, the better), resolve all minority issues in favor of the minorities, abandon trade barriers, and rid the country of corruption, preferably overnight.
Large
barriers
to nuclear proliferation thus exist independent of the NPT.
The new partnership aims to strengthen data collection and monitoring efforts by raising more funds, encouraging knowledge-sharing, addressing key
barriers
to access and use of data, and identifying new big-data strategies to upgrade the world’s statistical systems.
But non-tariff
barriers
can cost exporting countries more than tariffs do.
Despite the discrimination and poverty that immigrants often suffer initially,
barriers
to economic and political participation are relatively low.
It speaks to none of the
barriers
to participation or to immigrant responses to them, but demands symbolic assimilation.
Throughout Europe, cross-country labor mobility is hampered by cultural and language barriers, limited portability of social benefits, and administrative restrictions.
Perhaps most risky, however, is the growing political backlash against free trade, reflected in a lack of progress in recent rounds of trade liberalization and the implementation of protectionist non-tariff trade
barriers.
Meanwhile, the disaggregation and “disintermediation” of global corporations enables them to create formal
barriers
that prevent senior management from ever seeing, let alone being influenced by, their own workers (and growers).
So much, then, for a single market in financial services, or for harmonizing regulation and removing trade
barriers
behind the border.
When Nobel Laureate economists weighed up how to achieve the most good for the world in a recent project called the Copenhagen Consensus, they found that focusing on HIV/AIDS, malaria, malnutrition, and trade
barriers
should all be tackled long before we commit to any dramatic action on climate change.
From telecommunications to railroads, electricity to airlines the old idea that government control the "commanding heights of the economy" looks silly: international competition and the absence of
barriers
to entry do far more for the viability of a firm than government ownership.
During the negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership – which would have lowered tariffs and non-tariff
barriers
faced by US agricultural exports in participating countries – Republican members of Congress representing such districts were among the strongest supporters of freer trade (including at a House Ways and Means Committee meeting at which I testified).
Hence, governments must work to reduce trade barriers, improve infrastructure, and remove
barriers
to access.
State orchestration should instead be focused on fighting corruption, reducing transaction costs, promoting competition, lowering entry barriers, and removing excess capacity.
With immigrants less able to negotiate wages effectively – owing to, say, language
barriers
or unrecognized credentials – countries end up with a two-track job market.
The ideas proposed in the commission’s report include providing training and mentors for prospective entrepreneurs and startups, creating “ecosystems” of supporting infrastructure, and reducing regulatory
barriers.
And obliging children of different castes to eat the same meal at the same time in the same place has broken down social
barriers
in a highly stratified society.
One of the most intractable
barriers
to international justice – the double standard shielding criminals who are citizens of powerful states – is now squarely under the microscope of public scrutiny.
In addition to the possibility of conflict, there is the danger that governments will overreact, erecting
barriers
to information that undermine the potential of the Internet.
Fear of loss of control within states is driving new data-localization requirements and other new
barriers
that would ultimately fracture and even balkanize the Internet.
But equally worrying are policies in the European Union that, in the name of defending citizens’ privacy, are leading to the erection of
barriers
to the free flow of data.
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