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To sustain innovation, businesses must attract and retain the most creative and productive minds.
The solution to the productivity problem is easy to state but difficult to accomplish: the country must bridge the widening gap between the “two Mexicos” – the agile, dynamic, post-NAFTA modern economy (the “Aztec tiger”)and the traditional economy of slow-growing, unproductive traditional businesses.
Despite Mexico’s energy riches, for example, the cost of electricity for commercial customers is 73% higher than for US businesses.
The result was that interbank credit markets froze, Wall Street panicked, and businesses went under, not just in the United States but around the world.
With huge profits and bonuses at stake, mega-banks won’t readily abandon their model-based businesses; but, unless that happens, placing most of our bets on top-down rules would be reckless folly.
Less than one-third of households have access to electricity, and for only 5-15 hours a day, leaving many in darkness and forcing businesses to buy expensive diesel generators.
The abnormal power of the media also means that they are not run as normal businesses.
A second negative side effect, according to Cecchetti and Kharroubi, stems from the preference of bank finance for investment in real estate, where collateral is available, rather than less easily assessed investments in technology-based businesses.
These gender gaps represent a major generational challenge for large and small businesses alike.
Businesses investing in lower-income countries also need their workers to be healthy.
The businesses investing in developing- and emerging-market countries that are home to most out-of-school girls thus have an interest in helping girls get the education they deserve.
Multinational organizations and businesses have prospered from global markets and dramatic advances in technology.
And businesses must be seen to care, by paying closer attention to the social and political implications of their actions.
People can now circumvent many traditional service businesses.
Do peer-to-peer businesses undercut incumbents by not paying similar taxes?
Are such businesses – flush with venture capital – running their operations at a loss in order to capture market share?
Only a stronger Europe will at last implement the principle of reciprocity in order to protect European businesses and prevent them from relocating, which has been the main cause of unemployment.
Businesses are reluctant to invest at a time when consumer demand is plummeting and they face unprecedented risk penalties on their borrowing costs.
The benefits would be extraordinary, for both Africa and the rich countries, which would be putting their businesses and skilled workers back to work.
As a result, clean air, renewable energy, and green spaces have all too often been sacrificed to the notion that environmentally friendly legislation increases costs and red tape for businesses and ultimately hurts the economy.
Only businesses that can borrow long-term now, lock in a low real interest rate, and invest in expanding their capacity can make the domestic bet that interest rates will rise.
But America’s businesses see enough risk in the future to be wary of getting stuck with unutilized capacity.
The Commission is thus establishing itself as a friendly venue for businesses that cannot overcome competitors in the market, and seek a second chance in court.
In particular, it needs to focus on how the banking crisis has affected the economy’s long-term growth potential, on how the nature and structure of the banking system needs to be changed, on local businesses’ ability to adapt in a credit crunch, and on the mounting social costs of austerity.
Erecting a wall along the 5,525-mile border with Canada would cost almost $50 billion and would cut through an airport runway, an opera house, homes, and businesses that currently straddle the border.
Agricultural development efforts should, therefore, focus on promoting the growth and sustainability of smallholder farmers and small rural businesses.
As a result, developing countries face a stark choice: take advantage of new technologies to stimulate economic growth and enhance productivity or fall even further behind as businesses and consumers in rich countries increasingly embrace digital advances.
Either way, the result can be an environment hostile to people and businesses wishing to use new technologies.
Given that a five-year renewal schedule would have created massive uncertainty for businesses and governments alike, the 16-year proviso is to be welcomed.
Life insurance companies, drug firms, businesses providing services for the elderly, and investors in retirement real estate would all benefit from increased longevity, while defined-benefit pension plans and annuity providers would lose.
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