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Government and commercial activities virtually ground to halt this spring as democracy activists, in alliance with politicians and lawmakers opposed to a third term, battled Obasanjo’s allies to thwart the proposed bill.
European business is bound up in rules and regulations, many of which originate from unelected officials in Brussels, whose laudable intention to harmonize business conditions across the EU is instead sapping the continent’s commercial creativity and dynamism.
In other words, they are putting taxpayer money where commercial companies fear to tread.
In a more fragmented fashion, states established incentives for energy efficiency in residential and commercial buildings.
Asset prices– stocks, commercial real estate, and even oil – are, historically, at high levels around the world.
Fortunately, larger companies are now less dependent on bank credit than they were in the past, thanks to a well-developed market for commercial paper that in effect bypasses traditional bank loans.
For their part, African players grumbled that their absence from Europe reduced their commercial opportunities during a crucial period of league play.
Of course, faced with the Chinese economic challenge, America would be happy to forge a united front – especially in matters of trade – with the continent that is still the world’s leading commercial power.
These are not agreements to cooperate on shared resources, but rather commercial accords to sell hydrological data that other upstream countries provide free to downriver states.
All the Internet has done is make it easier for commercial enterprises to compile huge databases on our lives, thoughts, and desires.
The IMF is rounding up the money from the usual sources: its own funds, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, foreign governments, and to a modest extent, foreign commercial banks.
Health education through public media, reaching distant areas of the country, is an urgent priority, but has been utterly ignored in favor of commercial priorities.
Indeed, public protests against China’s commercial exploitation of Burma’s natural resources became so widespread that the government called a halt to construction by Chinese investors on the huge and environmentally damaging Myitsone Dam on the Irrawaddy River.
LONDON – The global trade in babies born through commercial surrogacy is slowly being shut down.
But the determination of countries that have historically been centers of commercial surrogacy to stop the practice underscores the naiveté of that position.
And yet, as worries have mounted that commercial surrogacy leads to human trafficking and the exploitation of women, India’s authorities have concluded that the ethical concerns outweigh the economic benefits.
The earliest drafts of the legislation actually encouraged commercial surrogacy, mandating that mothers employed as surrogates surrender their babies.
In October 2015, India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, under pressure from the country’s Supreme Court, declared that international commercial surrogacy was unconstitutional.
And some reports indicate that Cambodia’s interior ministry intends to treat commercial surrogacy as human trafficking, with a potential prison sentence.
There is the risk, of course, that the ongoing international clampdown will drive commercial surrogacy underground.
The demise of Lehman disrupted the commercial paper market.
A large money market fund “broke the buck” and investment banks that relied on the commercial paper market had difficulty financing their operations.
But its influence is more commercial than political.
As a result, credit demand was relatively weak; in many cases, commercial banks had to persuade enterprises to accept loans, with a large proportion of the credit ultimately devoted to chasing assets in the capital market.
After the government clamped down on lending for residential and commercial projects, risky shadow banking activity surged.
Critically, the package should be financed by government bonds issued by the Ministry of Finance, not by commercial banks via local-government financing vehicles.
But, rather than helping the BOJ to reach its 2% inflation target in two years, QE is causing interest rates on government bonds to increase sharply, thereby pushing up commercial lending rates for individuals and corporations.
As a result, Japan’s commercial banks, hypersensitive to the risk and uncertainty associated with interest-rate fluctuations, have not responded to QE by increasing their lending activity.
Commercial and high-end residential investment has been excessive, automobile capacity has outstripped even the recent surge in sales, and overcapacity in steel, cement, and other manufacturing sectors is increasing further.
The next day, the Frankfurt branch of the Bank of China, the country’s largest commercial bank, received the same designation for the eurozone.
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