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The answer hinges on the balance businesses strike between value capture and creation.
Pressure from businesses and civil-society groups could help to stimulate progress.
The world needs more women climate leaders, whether around the tables where policy is made or at the helm of businesses, steering them toward sustainability.
Once women gain access to the financial system, they can create and invest in small businesses, while feeling more secure about dipping into savings when confronted with emergencies.
Constraining demand even more is the fact that businesses in poor countries only need IT when they have educated workforces, which most poor country firms neither have nor need.
These probes, which have the effect of blocking exports from targeted firms, cost Russian businesses $1.3 billion a year in lost exports--a huge loss in an economy that is hurting as much as Russia is.
Implementing such standards in Russia is beyond the capacity of most businesses, something that should be self-evident, given how new modern businesses practices are to the country.
But the EU is using its rules and investigative procedures in ways specifically aimed at Russian businesses.
Similarly, before the introduction of limited liability in the nineteenth century, a company’s shareholders or partners were each liable for all of the firm’s debts, which severely restricted businesses’ willingness to borrow to finance trade.
Strong economies need strong businesses and strong trade, and that requires good relationships with policymakers.
Nor can it be a reason to give failing businesses a safety net for their own bad behavior or poor decisions.
Crony businesses from the US and Europe, which are utterly unfamiliar with local conditions, squander time, aid funds, and opportunities.
Deflation --a steady ongoing decline in prices-- gave businesses and consumers powerful incentives to cut spending and hoard cash.
It reduced the ability of businesses and banks to service their debt, and might trigger a chain of big bankruptcies that would destroy confidence in the financial system, providing further incentives to hoard.
Ban’s message was simple: Beyond the long-term shared benefits of such action, countries and businesses would benefit in the short term.
Of course, today’s carbon-intensive businesses may see far more risk than opportunity in climate action.
According to a study – cited in the World Bank report – by MIT’s Tavneet Suri and Georgetown University’s William Jack, mobile accounts have enabled 185,000 Kenyan women to leave farming and start more remunerative small businesses and retail activities.
Four out of ten employers said that they cannot find workers to fill entry-level positions in their firms, with more than one-third of respondents saying that their businesses are suffering from a lack of appropriate skills in the labor market.
A useful example is the cooperation between Brazil’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras and Prominp – a coalition of government agencies, businesses, trade associations, and labor unions – aimed at unleashing the full potential of the country’s oil and gas sector.
The imperative for businesses, educators, governments, and young people to take action could not be stronger.
Its task would be less to design and implement top-down solutions than to solicit, support, evaluate, and scale up innovative strategies by tapping into ideas developed by state and local governments, businesses, and non-profit institutions.
But there are numerous ways in which governments can work with non-profits, investors, businesses, and citizens to find the best ways to achieve these goals – and thus restore public trust in government itself.
But a second, more current reason relates to lobbying from businesses, which argue that corporate competitiveness depends on cheap labor.
The risk in these countries is not the risk of rising unemployment, but stagnating wages, which has caused household demand to remain depressed or grow only sluggishly, thereby deterring businesses from investing.
He has, after all, shown a clear preference for personal, bilateral deals, like those he makes with his businesses, rather than engaging in formal, much less multilateral, diplomacy.
The sub-prime mortgage loan problem triggered a drop in some financial institutions’ key lines of business, particularly their opaque but extremely profitable derivatives businesses.
This keeps small businesses in poor nations and regions from reaching their full potential.
If small businesses could expand beyond the village square, they could drive their countries' growth better than any aid agency.
Although businesses are competitive by nature, true entrepreneurs also instinctively collaborate in building new markets: a manufacturer in one country or region seeks marketers, financiers and distributors in other countries and regions.
It helps people find work that fulfills their potential, and it helps employers find people who can use their infrastructure (whether machines or office equipment or even just a methodology for service delivery) to satisfy the needs of businesses and consumers around the world.
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