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The reason was simple: businesses benefit from tax exemptions or reductions for products that are exported.
The immediate result was an upsurge in confidence among both businesses and consumers.
Looking ahead, policymakers and businesses should keep five imperatives in mind.
Policymakers and businesses should seek to maximize this kind of complementarity across all sectors.
Fourth, businesses will need to innovate and capitalize on new market opportunities at the same pace that human tasks are being replaced.
The trouble (for economists and traditional businesses, at least) is that this future disturbs traditional notions of economic growth.
Small business loans have been pivotal in creating not only new businesses, but whole new industries.
Even in his era, businesses found that they could increase profits more easily by conspiring to raise prices than by producing innovative products more efficiently.
With half of all African businesses owning or sharing a generator and citing electricity as a major constraint, decentralized renewables could keep Africa’s SMEs productive and their workers employed.
Off-grid solutions would also enable the launch of new businesses, especially in agriculture, and shorten their path to profitability.
By powering health clinics, schools, and local businesses, including in the agriculture industry, such grids would help create more vibrant and prosperous local economies.
Next, young people need access to financial products and services to help them turn their ideas into marketable businesses.
Furthermore, it seems likely that many of the short-term effects of the demonetization could persist – and intensify – in the longer term, with closed businesses unable to reopen.
It is indeed problematic that US banks and businesses can export capital, technology, and jobs as they please, with little or no regard for the domestic costs.
But the combination of the first serious unrest in Tibet in almost 20 years and the wider groundswell of criticism being directed at China ahead of the Beijing Olympics has sent businesses and investors scrambling to assess what it means for them, particularly in terms of reputational and ethical concerns.
Activists cannot possibly take aim at all foreign businesses in China, so most firms are unlikely to be specifically targeted or suffer reputational damage.
In the current climate, many businesses will find it difficult to avoid becoming stuck between a rock and a hard place.
The Brexit talks will undoubtedly be long and difficult – all the more so if citizens, businesses, or the negotiators themselves become discouraged, after excessive expectations are not met.
Measures such as carbon taxes and fees, emissions-trading programs and other pricing mechanisms, and removal of inefficient subsidies can give businesses and households the certainty and predictability they need to make long-term investments in climate-smart development.
The price must be high enough to achieve ambitious environmental goals, in alignment with national circumstances, and it must be stable, in order to encourage businesses and households to invest in clean technologies.
The World Bank Group is supporting countries and businesses as they develop climate-friendly public policies, invest in carbon markets, and explore financial innovations to ease into low-carbon transitions.
By drawing on these principles, countries, regions, states, and businesses can move faster to tackle the climate challenge confronting us all.
That is why we are announcing a “Carbon Pricing Panel,” which will bring together heads of state, city and state leaders, and representatives of top companies to urge countries and businesses around the world to put a price on carbon.
As a result, businesses are not likely to increase capital spending.
The Other Financial CrisisNEWPORT BEACH – Two variants of financial crisis continue to wreak havoc on Western economies, fueling joblessness and poverty: the one that we read about regularly in newspapers, involving governments around the world; and a less visible one at the level of small and medium-size businesses and households.
Discredited businesses cannot be replaced overnight.
According to one study, in 2011, family businesses represented up to 70% of the MENA private-sector economy – a higher share than in any other region.
Moreover, keeping businesses in the family reduces their disruptive potential, even when they do manage to innovate.
With small businesses unable to access the market for public goods and services, they miss out on important opportunities to mature and expand, which limits their capacity to spur broader economic growth and development.
All of this implies high barriers to entry for new businesses, which face severely limited opportunities to disrupt, spin off, or even leverage major industries.
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