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Over the past five years, foreign
direct
investment in the new member states topped the €100 billion mark.
As the only international actor in
direct
dialogue with both Burma's generals and Suu Kyi, the UN is in a position to press for a genuine process of national reconciliation.
The situation demands the Secretary-General’s
direct
involvement.
Although we still have traditional trade, we also have foreign
direct
investment, offshoring, and outsourcing.
Labor unions, human rights NGOs, consumer groups, or environmental organizations do not have
direct
access to protection in the way that firms do.
This puts them under Putin’s
direct
control.
Instead, they took the inflows in the form of
direct
investment, equity, or debt denominated in local currency.
As a result, it has come to be associated with the status quo, even though it hasn’t been able to claim
direct
credit for the previous governments’ successes.
For example, segmented production for global supply chains has stimulated trade in intermediate goods and promoted foreign
direct
investment.
The most stable form of financing, foreign
direct
investment, has the additional benefit of bringing in new technologies and methods.
Foreign
direct
investment – financial flows to build foreign factories and acquire foreign companies – remains at pre-crisis levels.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), which I
direct
on behalf of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, has been working on such low-carbon strategies for the main emitting countries in a project called the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project.
Because foreign debt has such a
direct
impact on people's lives, diverse proposals have been made to government officials, in the belief that the foreign debt burden is fundamentally a political problem - one that must be faced now, not later.
In the wake of the global financial crisis and the eurozone’s sovereign-debt crisis, China has bought government bonds, made
direct
investments, and sent business delegations to Europe.
In a recent interview, the PBOC’s governor, Zhou Xiaochuan, suggested that the SRF would concentrate more on “cooperation projects,” particularly
direct
equity investment, before hinting at the Fund’s “just right” financing features.
Changes to the US Constitution adopted during this period include the introduction of the federal income tax with the Sixteenth Amendment,
direct
election of senators with the Seventeenth Amendment, the prohibition of alcohol with the Eighteenth Amendment (some ideas were really bad), and women’s suffrage with the Nineteenth Amendment.
They created
direct
primary elections, empowering citizens to choose which candidates to nominate, thereby undermining the power of party “machines.”
Citizen-based redistricting, open primaries, changes to term limits, majority-vote budgets, a rainy-day fund, and legislative transparency have all been the
direct
result of civic-minded leaders deploying the initiative process for the public good.
Specifically, it would boost confidence, which would lower interest rates and offset any
direct
effect on demand, as occurred in Ireland and Denmark in the 1980’s.
After the elections, governors may demand that they get
direct
control of the pork.
And, so far, its technological advancement has depended largely on greater openness to
direct
investment, which has supported progress in research, development, and application of advanced technologies.
The authorities are hoping for foreign
direct
investment of $600 billion in the coming five years, and expect Chinese outward
direct
investment to reach $750 billion five years later.
The counterpart to the US emphasis on self-reliance rather than
direct
public assistance is that employment must be maintained at high levels--regardless of the party in power--whereas most European countries have been prepared to accept unemployment rates of 8% or more.
The
direct
impact is obvious: a government that cannot borrow will have to cut spending or raise taxes, with contractionary consequences.
Inflows of foreign
direct
investment have dried up, and GDP growth rates have plummeted from as high as 7% in 2008 and 2009 to merely 2% in 2013.
Academic research has demonstrated that sporting mega-events such as the World Cup and the Olympics deliver few
direct
economic benefits to the host countries.
True prudence requires that regulators avail themselves of a broader set of policy instruments, including quantitative ceilings, transaction taxes, restrictions on securitization, prohibitions, or other
direct
inhibitions on financial transactions – all of which are anathema to most financial market participants.
As a result, most advanced societies impose
direct
controls on gun ownership.
Germany agreed to relinquish the Deutsche Mark on the condition that the new currency area would not lead to
direct
or indirect socialization of its members’ debt, thus precluding any financial assistance from EU funds for states facing bankruptcy.
As the government attempted to
direct
these gains toward wealth redistribution, public expenditure rose and the social-benefits system – underpinned by so-called “acquired rights” – became increasingly rigid.
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