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Energy can be a key driver of European competitiveness and the transition to a low-carbon economy, benefiting European businesses and citizens alike.
Only bold target-setting demonstrates a credible commitment to the low-carbon vision and can provide much-needed certainty to businesses and markets.
In 2009, the latest year for which comprehensive data are available, there were just 2,226 US multinationals out of approximately 30 million businesses operating in the US.
The first path is to boost demand for goods and services, and then sit back and watch employment rise as businesses hire people to make the goods and services to meet that demand.
In practice, that means that the government either hires people and puts them to work or induces businesses to hire more people.
We are talking about either direct government employment programs, or large tax credits for businesses that increase the number of workers they employ.
And there is still time for a substantial temporary and incremental new-hire tax credit aimed at getting businesses to boost employment before the end of 2010.
In 2005, 10% of all new businesses in Lebanon were in the creative sector, and the copyright-based industries contributed 4.75% of GDP.
The People’s Bank of China has been providing spurts of liquidity to the market, in the hope of relieving financial constraints on productive private businesses and industries.
SOEs may also use the unregulated shadow banking system to re-lend at higher interest rates the cheap money they receive to private businesses, which cannot borrow reliably from the formal banking system.
For financial institutions, SOEs and LGFVs represent much lower risk than private businesses, regardless of how leveraged or uncompetitive they are.
Only then can monetary policy achieve its goal: supporting productive investment, innovation, the scaling of private-sector businesses, and real economic growth.
If China wanted to continue to invest in foreign businesses and natural resources, it would have to become a net seller of bonds from its portfolio.
Eventually, many Shan Zhai companies will evolve into legitimate businesses with their own IP.
Finally, Western companies should be willing to supply inputs to Chinese businesses selling innovative products.
In fact, there is no good reason for Western businesses to stand on the sidelines as Asia produces whiz-kid entrepreneurs and high-tech start-ups.
Corporate social responsibility is measured in terms of businesses improving conditions for their employees, shareholders, communities, and environment.
Reducing (or, better yet, eliminating) discrimination on the basis of race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation is one way to accomplish this, as is ensuring property rights, in part so that people can borrow money against their homes to start businesses.
The danger is that it will discourage businesses from hiring.
For example, to minimize the risks associated with operating in an unfamiliar regulatory and legislative environment, businesses should establish links in advance with a local entity to guide their activities.
China, as the leading promoter of the “one belt, one road” initiative, must take steps to ensure that businesses act responsibly.
What businesses in these countries need is not necessarily more finance, but the expectation of larger profits for their owners.
These businesses have a lot of speculative-grade debt coming due over the next five years, and for many the math simply will not add up, owing to declining sales as shoppers go online.
But as the market grows, banks will need to rethink their strategies focusing more on other customer segments, such as small and medium-size businesses and households.
Even from afar, they can contribute to Italy’s renewal by increasing the flow of knowledge, money, and innovation back home, promoting the national interest internationally, connecting local businesses with the global market, and helping build partnerships with research centers or private companies abroad.
It is for this reason that some of Britain’s biggest businesses, including Lloyds Banking Group, came together in the Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change (CLG).
If businesses are to make the necessary investments, they will require a consistent and predictable set of policies.
Businesses in other countries will also need to see the same level of government commitment and consistency.
Trade in humans and their bodies is not a new phenomenon, but today’s businesses are historically unique, because they require advanced biomedicine, as well as ideas and values that enhance the trade in organs.
If giving businesses extra cash makes them more confident, they will spend more.
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