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Every student of economics knows that a country’s current-account deficit is the difference between its national investment (in business equipment, structures, and inventories) and its national saving (by households, businesses, and government).
Pacific fisheries ministers are hoping to raise revenue even more by working with The Nature Conservancy to co-implement a system similar to one used in western Alaska, where the Community Development Quota Program (CDQ) has helped poor communities generate income by investing in fisheries-related businesses.
Energy companies must help businesses and consumers understand the real carbon footprint of all products and services.
The new policy explicitly encourages Chinese enterprises to work with local businesses in sectors like logistics, electricity, and information systems, and it promotes interaction among business, community, and government leaders.
Chinese businesses must change how they think about and act upon foreign investment opportunities.
As the Cerrado pledge demonstrates, when governments and businesses come together to address land-use challenges, the impact is potent.
Fourteen US states have started to do that by authorizing so-called benefit corporations (or B Corps) – businesses that promise to consider more than shareholder value in their strategic decisions.
Even if it is successful, consumers, investors, and businesses are undergoing a traumatic experience whose full impact is yet to be felt.
A global trade war would undermine economic recovery, hurting businesses and consumers by encumbering global supply chains and raising prices for imported goods.
Nonetheless, the case highlights a broader trend: the wooing of China’s princelings by prestigious Western educational institutions and businesses for the purpose of advancing their parochial interests in the burgeoning Chinese market.
Even the most vocal proponents of open data appear to have underestimated how many profitable ideas and businesses stand to be created.
More than 40 governments worldwide have committed to opening up their electronic data – including weather records, crime statistics, transport information, and much more – to businesses, consumers, and the general public.
These benefits come in the form of new and better goods and services, as well as efficiency savings for businesses, consumers, and citizens.
Such benchmarking is even more valuable for businesses seeking to improve their operational efficiency.
Trade union groups are, at last, officially recognized within businesses, as is workers’ right to speak out about their working conditions.
New businesses in the services sector – 3.6 million of which were started just last year – are generating incremental employment, thanks partly to a new streamlined licensing framework.
And online platforms are facilitating increased consumption, while expanding market access and financing for smaller businesses.
Because so many businesses make money from the rents created by the rationing of foreign exchange, rather than by creating value, it is easy to believe that markets do not work, that entrepreneurs are speculators, and that governments need to control them and impose “fair” prices.
Energy’s emergence as a focal point for European leaders makes sense, given that it lies at the confluence of the three existential threats facing the European Union: a revisionist Russia, the declining competitiveness of European businesses, and climate change.
Where people believe that businesses are corrupt, they want more regulation; and, with enough regulation, the only successful businesses are corrupt.
Unilaterally imposing tariffs on Chinese imports would likely trigger trade disputes, invite Chinese retaliation, and hurt US businesses that create wealth – and deliver affordable products to American consumers – by basing their production facilities in China.
The fact that businesses around the world were not getting the credit they need compounded the grievances expressed at Davos.
In seizing the opportunities of globalization, businesses have often neglected the developed-world workers they leave behind, while subjecting developing-country workers to extraordinary deprivation.
Moreover, individual businesses have often lobbied against and evaded environmental protections that are indisputably in our collective interest.
Securing these outcomes won’t be easy, because it will require a new social contract among governments, businesses, and civil society.
Plenty of businesses surely would get on board.
It is well known that it can take a very long time for businesses to reimagine productive processes to exploit new technologies: railroads and electricity are two leading examples.
Third, businesses have a critical role to play.
Here was a venture that opened new vistas for businesses and fired the imaginations of young people to emulate the entrepreneurial energies shown by owners, promoters, players, and fans.
Not only is its professional capacity dubious, as the NECU study highlighted; its independence has been dramatically curtailed by the government’s recent decision to reduce significantly regulatory obligations for businesses and state-owned companies (except with regard to taxation).
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