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When the excess demand is for longer-term assets – bonds to serve as vehicles for savings that move purchasing power from the present into the future – the natural response is twofold: induce businesses to borrow more and build more capacity, and encourage the government to borrow and spend, thus bringing the supply of bonds back into balance with demand.
But although financial markets may be prepared, can we say the same of individuals, households, and small businesses?
They can do so by adopting international rules to manage openness and interdependency; establishing stronger social safety nets; investing in innovation, education and skills-training, and infrastructure; and creating a more conducive regulatory environment for businesses and entrepreneurs to foster stronger and more inclusive growth.
Some existing businesses will fend off disruptive threats, including through takeovers; others will adjust (for example, Walmart recently announced an expansion of its financial-services offerings); but many may well prove insufficiently agile.
The secular, ethical mental-training exercises used in the ReSource project could be applied in businesses, political institutions, schools (for both teachers and students), and health-care settings – in short, in all areas where people experience high levels of stress and related phenomena.
According to the European Commission, creating a single European capital market would reduce the cost of equity capital for EU businesses by 0.5% and lower the cost of corporate debt financing by 0.4%.
These governments are not only appropriating resources from domestic households and businesses, subtracting from their consumption and investment; given that major developed countries issue international-reserve currencies, they are also collecting seigniorage from developing countries’ growing foreign-exchange reserves.
What lessons can be drawn from the failure of Turkish businesses in Iran?
Indeed, German big businesses have been the main obstacle to imposing the type of systemic sanctions that might have dissuaded Russian President Vladimir Putin from annexing Crimea and continuing to back the insurgency (which Russia itself incited) in eastern Ukraine.
People and businesses in New York, for example, are overexposed to their local real estate risks, so they should reduce this risk by selling New York home price futures.
This means compelling businesses to give up some of the special tax benefits they now enjoy.
And yet it would also seem that state-owned firms like the energy giants Gazprom and Rosneft operate like modern businesses.
Given these trends, the continent’s consumer industries are expected to grow a further $410 billion by 2020 – more than half the total revenue increase that all businesses are expected to generate in Africa by the end of the decade.
Country-level planning and resource allocation is still the rule for most businesses operating in Africa, resulting in inefficient allocation of human and capital resources.
No one knew what happened, but it was assumed that the government had something to do with it, and businesses with which she had spokesperson deals cut ties with her.
But will it live up to its billing if businesses fear that the legislation, passed by a thin partisan majority, will ultimately be reversed?
And policy uncertainty in the United States is nothing compared to the UK, where businesses face the twin disruptions of Brexit and (potentially) a Labour government led by the far-left Jeremy Corbyn.
Such sharing-oriented businesses increase the productivity of existing capital, while creating new jobs for workers.
With effective subsidy programs, governments can induce young, successful businesses that are exploiting recent developments in information technology and related fields to take on entrepreneurial apprentices.
Furthermore, these businesses are best suited to provide the relevant knowledge and experience for a start-up.
What leaders – both within and outside the region – can do is pursue large-scale and intelligent investments in primary and secondary education, small and medium-size businesses (which form the backbone of Arab economies), and renewable energy sources (which could underpin the upgrading of regional value chains).
New research by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) shows that spending by Africa’s consumers and businesses already totals $4 trillion.
By 2025, private spending could reach $5.6 trillion – $2.1 trillion by households, and $3.5 trillion by businesses.
Many African businesses – nearly half of companies in Nigeria, and more than one-third in Angola and Egypt – highlight unreliable electricity supplies as a major challenge.
Excluding this inventory swing, annualized growth in “final sales” to consumers, businesses, and the government averaged a tepid 1.6%.
When the collateral that underpins excess leverage comes under severe pressure – as was the case for Japanese businesses in the early 1990’s and American consumers in the mid 2000’s – what Koo calls the “debt rejection” motive of deleveraging takes precedence over discretionary spending.
Women become more empowered to start businesses.
And with capital, small enterprises can grow into larger businesses, employing others, especially young people.
Non-traditional approaches are also emerging, such as reaching the unbanked poor via small, independent businesses that they already use and trust.
Moreover, China is believed to have long used state intervention, including industrial policy, to limit US businesses and investment in the domestic market, while enabling Chinese enterprises to achieve rapid technological progress.
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