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By joining the World Trade Organization, improving their investment climates, and stopping interference with shuttle traders – mostly poor women trying to make a living –governments would give the region’s businesses and farmers access to markets and attract much-needed new investment.
Cooperation clearly is not only for the region’s governments; businesses, traders, and civil society must be involved as well.
The oligarchs’ businesses have been largely nationalized.
With the credit crisis still making it difficult for many small and medium-size businesses to obtain even the minimal level of financing necessary to maintain inventories and conduct trade, global GDP is on a precipice in 2009.
When Tigar sold its tire division to France’s Michelin, it invested the entire proceeds in new businesses.
Most businesses in the eurozone rely on bank finance, and while credit conditions have improved somewhat, lending is flat (and continues to fall in southern Europe).
To fuel innovation and new discoveries, we urgently need more partnerships between governments, businesses (particularly drug makers), and civil-society organizations.
A breakthrough like this highlights one of the many ways in which ordinary people and businesses can reduce energy use and cut greenhouse gases.
This will require a fundamental change in mindset, with businesses and governments alike recognizing, at long last, that growth can be sustainable only if its benefits are broadly shared.
Rather, the businesses that grow and succeed in an increasingly volatile environment will be those that create the most value for society as a whole.
Most important, however, has been what looks, from today’s perspective, like a permanent collapse in the risk-bearing capacity of the private marketplace, and a permanent and large increase in the perceived riskiness of financial assets worldwide – and of the businesses whose cash flows underpin them.
But, unlike allowing individuals to offer their furniture to the whole world, crowdfunding is supposed to raise money fast, from those in the know, for businesses that bankers might not understand.
That’s why channeling dispersed knowledge into new businesses requires a regulatory framework that favors the genuinely enlightened and honest.
This advances the objective of helping local businesses, particularly innovative small and medium-size firms, to grow and thrive.
They can learn how some countries are successfully matching their businesses’ labor needs with immigrants’ skills.
Dollar devaluation will only secondarily affect Americans who consume imported goods or who work in businesses that distribute imports to consumers.
Already, the economics of Argentina’s dash for gas has resulted in massive transfers from households, businesses, and the state to fossil-fuel corporations.
Add to that a sharply depreciating peso (down by more than 50% against the US dollar this year), and the increase in gas prices faced by households and businesses, on average, amounts to 1,300% over the last 24 months.
While households and businesses suffer, oil and gas companies continue to profit.
Now small businesses have new opportunities to make their voices heard.
Although every country and region is unique, businesses can forge unified positions based on national goals and a common strategy.
Several Indian businesses, especially larger firms, resisted, clinging to benefits protectionist measures introduced under Nehru.
Any serious candidate for Fed chairman should understand the importance of good regulation and the need to return the US banking system to the business of providing credit, especially to ordinary Americans and small and medium-size businesses (that is, those who cannot raise money on capital markets).
As devaluation causes businesses’ debt burdens to grow in renminbi terms, the risk of non-performing loans and bankruptcies rises.
As policy changes unleash market forces, businesses will face greater competition.
They fought like gladiators in the world’s most competitive market, learned to develop sophisticated business models (such as Taobao’s freemium model), and built impregnable moats to protect their businesses (for example, Meituan-Dianping created an end-to-end food app, including delivery).
With private foundations, governments, and businesses all pledging to contribute, the HOPE fund that I have in mind could be in operation by the end of the year.
And yet the penny has not dropped in London that focusing European investment funds accordingly would create opportunities to build stronger businesses and increase competitiveness in the technologies of the future – and to share these gains within and beyond the EU.
Lower borrowing costs would also boost China’s capital market, which is critical to provide equity financing to innovative small and medium-size businesses.
Digital job platforms also make it easier for businesses to hire and fire workers on temporary contingent contracts.
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