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A growing number of businesses recognize that today’s formula for success includes a focus on pressing societal needs.
Banks receive up to 0.4% interest on ECB credit that they take themselves, provided they lend it out to private businesses.
In particular, the accounting, transparency, and fraud rules that govern businesses do not apply to elected representatives.
In Indonesia’s largest online marketplace, women-owned businesses account for 35% of total revenues.
And in China, women found 55% of new Internet businesses.
In this respect, Watsi resembles a day-trading site, where investors buy and sell stocks relentlessly, without helping to build the underlying businesses.
According to an independent report, almost 60% of the businesses in London judged the program’s impact on the economy as positive or neutral.
Many SOEs and SWFs have recently established venture capital arms to target high-tech companies producing innovation that can underpin their core businesses.
But the biggest opportunists are businesses.
The fear that big businesses were harming the general welfare by stifling competition – and were politically powerful enough to entrench their monopoly power – allowed reformists from the left and right to find some common ground.
In any case, the possibility of unexpected restrictions or sanctions on businesses or individuals, imposed in the name of national security, sharply increases the risks faced by Chinese, American, and other businesses.
As Xi emphasized in his recent speech, this success reflects the hard work of the Chinese people, the innovative practices of Chinese businesses, and the leadership of the Communist Party of China.
Last year, the Karpov Commission "Report on the 200 biggest Russian Companies" showed that they made less than 25% of their payments of salaries or to other businesses in actual money.
The state also privileges some businesses and chokes others through its control of access to the market.
Perhaps the most astonishing thing about the ECB’s monochromatic price-stability mission and utter disregard for financial stability – much less for the welfare of the workers and businesses that make up the economy – is its radical departure from the central-banking tradition.
Simply put, businesses, like plants, take time to grow.
What used to be professions have turned into businesses.
Investors and businesses don’t fear that a new regime can take power and call off all, or too many, bets, leading to losses on their investments.
Faced with such a hostile environment, Chinese private entrepreneurs have been forced to engage in “institutional arbitrage” – taking advantage of efficient Western economic institutions to expand their business (most export-oriented businesses are owned by private entrepreneurs and foreign firms).
But reorienting their businesses toward the Chinese domestic market requires far more than government policies that put more money in consumers' pockets.
Privatization, market liberalization, the opening of closed professions, and government downsizing involve conflicts with powerful vested interests, such as businesses in protected industries, public-sector unions, or influential lobbies.
Groups like the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association warn that further increases could lead to a massive exodus of businesses and jobs.
The Global Commission on Internet Governance (of which I am a member) has put forward a proposal for “a new social compact” among citizens, their elected representatives, law-enforcement and intelligence agencies, businesses, civil-society groups, and programmers and developers.
And yet we also know that the pace of change is faster than ever before, and that governments, businesses, and households are finding it increasingly difficult to keep up.
Senior Indian executives whose businesses require them to recruit competent scientists or engineers complain that demand for such talent vastly exceeds the supply.
I hold a doctorate in economics and work with businesses whose employees and operations benefit from the UK’s membership in the EU.
Too often, digital-health services are fragmented among government agencies, businesses, and nongovernmental organizations.
Free trade, technological progress, and other forces that promote economic “efficiency” are presented as beneficial to society, even if they harm individual workers or businesses, because growing national incomes allow winners to compensate losers, ensuring that nobody is left worse off.
A report just published by the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) – which includes many major businesses and no obvious “cultural Marxists” – describes how to build a zero-carbon global economy at only minimal economic cost by 2060.
Credit contractions almost invariably hit small businesses and start-ups the hardest.
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