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China benefits from Africa’s oil, minerals, and markets, while Africa benefits from increased trade and investment in infrastructure, health, education, small-scale businesses, and low and medium technologies.
Banks hate risk, and start-up businesses are very risky.
The Microfinance CatalystCAMBRIDGE – So-called “impact investors” – providers of capital to businesses that solve social challenges while generating a profit – are the current rage in economic development.
In the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France, development agencies are looking to reposition some of their funding to businesses serving the poor.
Within a few years, as their loan books began to grow rapidly, Compartamos and SKS created for-profit businesses that were owned by their respective NGOs.
But while businesses clearly create wealth, so do workers, public institutions, and civil-society organizations, which, through dynamic partnerships, drive long-term growth and productivity.
The tax system must be made more progressive as well, with tax credits for businesses designed to encourage inclusive outcomes.
And when businesses do not see opportunities, interest rates stop affecting investment.
Beyond “shovel-ready” infrastructure projects, fiscal stimulus should support transformational projects, such as those that led to advances in information and communication technology, biotech, and nanotech that were “chosen” by public policy working alongside businesses.
In reaching its decision, the Supreme Court took into account a legal brief submitted by 60 major American businesses, led by General Motors, asking that affirmative action be upheld.
And French businesses don’t see it as their role to solve the problems of the suburbs.
In 2008, these elevated debt levels – in banks, businesses, households, and governments – sparked the financial crisis.
But mental training also has benefits for adults, so businesses, political authorities, and research institutions should collaborate in establishing “mental gymnasiums.”
Advocates suggest that there is a significant “energy-efficiency gap”: governments and businesses have overlooked and forgone investments that could significantly reduce energy consumption at low cost.
Europe depends on Russian energy supplies, and European banks and businesses are highly exposed to Russia.
Final sales to households, businesses, and foreign buyers rose at only a 1.1% annual rate, even slower than earlier in the year.
The cohesion policy benefits citizens, local communities, and businesses across the EU, but particularly in newer member states.
Beyond Europe's borders, governments and businesses are already forging ahead.
In the only comprehensive overview based on surveys of businesses and households, the World Bank puts the total direct cost of corruption at $1 trillion annually.
Beginning in the eastern region of Ghana, our Community-based Hypertension Improvement Program (ComHIP) trains local businesses and health-care workers living in the community to screen and support hypertensive patients.
Moon also promises stricter regulations to prevent chaebols from entering financial businesses and recklessly expanding into sectors better suited to smaller firms.
Moon’s government can also contribute to private-sector job creation by easing regulations, helping small- and medium-size businesses to thrive, and ensuring a flexible labor market, in which full-time employment is not excessively protected and performance-based wage increases are applied.
But such tax reforms are likely to face strong resistance: about half of all South Korean households and businesses paid no income or corporate tax in 2014.
In order to accomplish this, businesses must actively challenge men to help advance women in the workforce.
This will only increase the bias in bank lending towards government debt and against lending to enterprises, especially small and medium-size businesses.
As a public-policy credo, corporatism has come to mean that the government must support all members of society, whether individuals or organizations, giving support to failing businesses and protecting existing jobs alike.
People who might not stress that the government should protect failing businesses or redundant workers still have sympathies that might often lead to such outcomes.
Add to them the two old regulars, Congo and Cameroon, and the CEMAC zone shapes up as an increasingly attractive market for foreign investors and local businesses alike.
The overnight mortgage-pool market exists partly because there aren’t enough short-term US Treasury bills available for businesses that want easy access to cash without the risk implied by uninsured bank deposits.
Milton Friedman and other critics often asked if it was the business of businesses to practice corporate altruism.
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