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The Czechs were first and fastest at comprehensive privatization, including a mass privatization program involving the vast majority of the population through participation in voucher auctions, a far-reaching program of restitution, and rapid liberalization for starting new private businesses.
The added benefit of this approach is that it would also strengthen incentives for businesses to invest and innovate.
But, while for Keynes, the key was to keep the sum of government spending and private investment stable, for Friedman the key was to keep the money supply -- the amount of purchasing power in readily spendable form in the hands of businesses and households-- stable.
Meanwhile, Latin American businesses have been increasing their own foreign investments.
Limited on all sides by embargoes and conflict, the country's few private businesses do not have sufficient markets to survive.
In order to ensure that this aid brings benefits to the region as a whole, and that its impact is therefore multiplied throughout all the economies of the region, half of the construction projects should be set aside for businesses based in Southeast Europe.
Consider the extent to which capital – that is, shareholders – rules in large businesses: if a conflict arises between capital’s goals and those of managers, who wins?Looked at in this way, America’s capitalism becomes more ambiguous.
What do businesses, citizens, and policymakers need to know as they scramble to keep up?
The goals must have measurable, achievable objectives that extend beyond national policy; they must inspire regional and local administrations, businesses, civil society, and individuals everywhere to change their behavior.
Many countries in the early 1930’s had terrible bank runs, which inflicted immense and immediate damage, decimating employment by bringing down businesses that were fundamentally creditworthy.
Deception is instantly appealing to many individual businesses.
For individual businesses, financial misrepresentation is illegal.
Rather, the question is how billions of at-risk people and businesses can rapidly adapt and ensure their communities are as resilient as possible.
A related concern is that homes and businesses around the world will eventually become under-insured or even uninsurable, owing to the frequency of weather-related catastrophes.
Finally, there is the argument that Chinese FDI fails to transfer technologies and skills to local businesses – what economists refer to as “positive spillovers.”
These can occur, for example, by bringing local businesses into supply chains, or by working with local experts on research and development.
Such arrangements protect the investor from an unstable business environment, but they can also cut investors off from indigenous businesses; and when SEZs offer investors special tax breaks, the country is deprived of potential revenues.
Such large fiscal deficits would mean that the government must borrow funds that would otherwise be available for private businesses to finance investment in productivity-enhancing plant and equipment.
Macroeconomic stability refers to the absence of inflation, budget balance, a realistic value for the exchange rate, the ability of businesses and government to obtain market loans, and high confidence that government financial obligations will be honored.
We have learned in the past decade that even when businesses are internationally competitive, a macroeconomic crisis can derail economic growth, as it did in most of Asia in the late 1990s.
Assistance to non-governmental organizations should be expanded, and US assistance also should be targeted toward small farmers and small- and medium-sized businesses.
(Some might cynically say that keeping MBAs and economists out of real businesses is a blessing, but I doubt that that is really true.)
For businesses, particularly those that have to transport goods across the country, the GST would be a boon.
Italians (and later Turks) who worked in Northern Europe and then returned home with sufficient assets to start small businesses made a double contribution; they helped their host countries and then helped their home countries.
Robust and resilient economies need strong businesses, and to build strong businesses, governments must play a role in ensuring high-integrity oversight of business activity.
The impact is merely deflected onto unemployed workers who would have been hired and workers in small businesses who would not have been laid off.
Businesses have marked down their pre-crisis investment plans to reflect a post-crisis “new normal” of slower and more uncertain growth in demand for their output.
Shareholder pressure tends to be greater in older firms, and in the US over the last few decades, the proportion of older firms has been growing as the startup rate for new businesses has fallen.
For many businesses in a given economy, the size of the domestic consumer market is the strongest determinant of potential growth.
China’s more controlling line on corporate behavior might not suit freewheeling businesses, but may have some social benefits.
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