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In practice, this means cutting red tape so that all businesses can sell their goods and services across a common market of 500 million people.
To benefit fully from the Internet, the EU should avoid favoring local businesses over global competitors, and all investment should be welcome, whether it comes from Stockholm, Seoul, or San Francisco.
A regulatory regime that gave unfair advantages to local businesses would hurt consumers, hamper innovation, and damage competitiveness.
European policymakers should also guarantee non-discriminatory wholesale access to communications networks, and that consumers and businesses have a range of choices for telecommunications and online services.
After all, it is European small businesses, not just American, that benefit from e-commerce platforms like eBay and Amazon and the advertising services of Google and Facebook.
And European app developers, too, build businesses on mobile phone software.
Countries like Poland, where unregulated small businesses are generating nearly all the new jobs and growth, worry about the costs of Brussels regulations.
According to Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, Russia has funded anti-government protests and pushed Russian-oriented businesses in Macedonia to foment violence in the run-up to the September 30 referendum.
So far, much of that expertise has been used for the benefit of foreign customers and domestic businesses; but there is increasing interest in deploying it for broader public benefit.
Indian businesses and other institutions are finally beginning to see opportunity in addressing their country’s problems – which brings me back to plumbing.
Trump is relying on China – one of America’s largest trade partners – to apply pressure on the North Korean regime, while US businesses have lobbied vigorously against any measures that might inhibit trade.
A perception of unfair treatment can be deadly to economic growth, because it means that people will lose trust in businesses, and hence be less willing to offer to them their precious capital and labor.
But without the rule of law, businesses lose confidence that contracts and private-property rights will be enforced or independently arbitrated, and the economy cannot sustain strong long-term growth.
The transparency mechanism supports this shift, by allowing journalists, activists, scientists, concerned citizens, and climate-friendly businesses to engage in debates, publicize successes and failures, solicit help and advice, and offer support to lagging countries.
The private sector's role in decision-making, too, often needs to be clarified--where businesses have too much influence over government, their need to operate profitable may lead to policies that favor the few over the many.
Hospitality businesses are now ranked, analyzed, and compared not by industry professionals, but by the very people for whom the service is intended – the customer.
As a result, businesses are much more accountable, often in very specific ways, which creates powerful incentives to improve service.
Businesses that attract top ratings can enjoy exponential growth, as new customers are attracted by good overall reviews and subsequently provide yet more (positive) feedback.
At the sector level, businesses providing consumer goods to the growing middle class in emerging markets have become more attractive to global investors, while capital-intensive and cyclical businesses have lost their luster.
It explains why British businesses are increasingly appalled by the prospect that the UK government will not deliver continuing post-Brexit regulatory alignment with the EU.
Businesses in oligopolistic sectors often complain about the burden of compliance; but they clearly rely on regulation as a barrier to market entry by new competitors.
If this means businesses earn a lower short-term profit, so be it.
A society’s welfare is not identical with the profitability of its businesses, or with the growth rate of GDP.
Tough EU environmental standards impose high costs on these businesses, which might mean they grow more slowly than they otherwise would.
Indeed, businesses cite uncertainty about the strength of demand, not uncertainty about regulation or taxation, as the main factor holding back job creation.
US Fed Chairman Greenspan asked recently, “why U.S. businesses and workers appear to have benefitted more from the recent advances in information technology than their counterparts in Europe and Japan?”
Higher real interest rates discourage credit-financed purchases by households and businesses.
The resulting unusual economic environment of falling prices and wages can also have a damaging psychological impact on households and businesses.
Another would be to create new visa categories to enable foreign entrepreneurs to reside in Japan and build their businesses.
Unwisely, Chen went out of his way to shut out mainland Chinese capital and to retain barriers to other foreign investors in order to protect the domestic businesses of his political allies.
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