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Yes, the logic of market-based global commerce is very strong.
That partnership has five components: wider opportunities for education in order to produce a workforce with cutting-edge skills; investment in infrastructure – roads, power plants, and ports – that supports commerce; funds for research and development to expand the frontiers of knowledge in ways that generate new products; an immigration policy that attracts and retains talented people from beyond America’s borders; and business regulations strong enough to prevent disasters such as the near-meltdown of the financial system in 2008 but not so stringent as to stifle the risk-taking and innovation that produce growth.
The new Party leadership of the 1990’s and 2000’s did not waver from Deng’s line: steady expansion of market reforms, active involvement in international commerce, massive urbanization and urban development, and total dedication to Party unity.
By providing and enforcing suitable rules of the game, and so deterring private predations conducted through fraud and coercion, the state acts as a facilitator of commerce.
The resulting stalemate has impeded meaningful discussion of the main issues – including non-tariff measures, export restrictions, electronic commerce, exchange rates, and the trade implications of climate-change-related policies – raised by an open global economy.
At the same time, tissue removed from the body enters into commerce and trade as a commodity like any other, in the form of stem cell lines, human eggs, and other “products.”
In particular, they risk cutting a country off from the main flows of credit, investment, and commerce – that is, all of the activities that generate economic opportunity and prosperity.
Some argue that rapid productivity gains from new technology, increased competition due to globalization, and the rise of internet-based electronic commerce created a world in which firms must steadily lower prices.
Increasingly, many people go online to use Facebook and little else, while Facebook encourages people to stay on Facebook to play games on Zynga, shop through Facebook commerce pages, and so on.
North Americans and Europeans need to lift their fingers out of “the greasy till of commerce” and see the end of TB as a challenge to our collective humanity.
How many of the 400,000 children who die from TB each year could grow up, fight for social justice through art, activism, and commerce, and inspire the rest of us to do the same?
In theory, such practices run counter to regulations promulgated by the Chinese commerce ministry in August 2006, in response to a backlash against Chinese businesses in Zambia following the death of 51 Zambian workers in an explosion at a Chinese-owned copper mine.
Trade between the two giants has grown from $100 million in 1994 to nearly $14 billion last year, and India’s minister of commerce and industry has predicted that it will double by this decade’s end.
More important, Japan and India now conduct several annual ministerial dialogues: a strategic dialogue between their foreign ministers; a security dialogue between their defense ministers; a policy dialogue between India’s commerce and industry minister and Japan’s minister of economy, trade and industry; and separate ministerial-level energy and economic dialogues.
The euro, for example, delivers clear advantages of scale by favoring international commerce and avoiding negative externalities.
Only in exceptional circumstances is fiscal harmonization justified: prohibitions, say, on fiscal incentives aimed at limiting competition, impeding commerce, or restricting the movement of capital.
Such investment would create platforms for innovation and commerce that yield returns far greater than any single technology or industry can deliver.
In this model, the economy needs a state that eagerly lends an ear to business, and, when necessary, greases the wheels of commerce by providing incentives, subsidies, and other discretionary benefits.
It is important for two reasons, one concerning its implications for peace and human rights, the other concerning its impact on commerce and development.
While the mission of this space may not be enough to shift the balance in world affairs, it can help spread peace, respect for human rights, and efficient and respected rules governing global commerce.
International commerce and travel enable infectious diseases to strike continents away from their sources.
Far from helping to turn the page on old disputes, this commerce has been accompanied by greater Sino-Indian geopolitical rivalry and military tension.
Both visions sound appealing and consistent with traditional tenets of international relations, particularly Thomas Jefferson’s desire for “peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,” to which Clinton might add “individuals and groups within and among nations.”
Managing social and political inclusion is not difficult for states blessed with an advantageous position along one of the world’s major trade routes, traditions of cosmopolitanism and commerce, massive oil wealth, and small national populations.
Yes, local autonomy facilitated bold productivity-enhancing activities, such as the use of rural land for industry and commerce and the creation of public-private partnerships to finance major infrastructure projects; private enterprises were thus able to seize market share from SOEs in the service and manufacturing sectors.
In the late 1990’s, for example, the belief that B2B exchanges would prove to be the “killer app” for commerce resulted in the formation of more than 1,500 of them.
Under the secular governments that ruled Turkey from the 1920s to 1950, and to some extent until 2002, pious Turks seeking advancement in government, the military, and even commerce had to downplay their religiosity and avoid signaling approval of political Islam.
Online advertising allows EU citizens to access information, educational material, commerce channels, and entertainment sites without paying for them directly, and the amount being spent on it in Europe is growing fast.
Low-trust societies participate disproportionately less in international commerce, and attract less investment.
In the mid-nineteenth century, Islamic courts gave way to what were essentially secular courts, at least with respect to commerce and finance.
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