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The latter jobs are much smaller in number than the former, and they happen to be in frontier firms that are leveraging the effects of technology to outperform
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competitors, and to expand into new markets.
The first of these pillars, the China-based “world factory,” was largely created by foreign multinational corporations and their associated suppliers and subcontractors, with labor-intensive processing and assembly carried out by small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) that have
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access to global markets through a complex web of contracts.
For example, Chinese local governments became highly adept at attracting foreign
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investment (FDI) by providing attractive infrastructure and supporting services that facilitate the expansion of global production chains.
Before, there were fewer readers and writers, but they were the same people, and had relatively
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access to each other’s work.
While cap-and-trade systems or other means of pricing carbon emissions can help provide incentives for businesses to invest in low-carbon solutions, in the short term at least, these seven policy measures – and
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action and investment by governments – are needed to achieve the targets.
It also makes intimidating complainants easy, because they are
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subordinates.
The G-20, by contrast, brought in the big emerging markets, and its initial promise was to provide a way to control and
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the IMF.
For starters, countries should embrace policies that favor foreign
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investment (FDI) over inflows that can be withdrawn more quickly, such as foreign bank loans, debt, or equity investments.
One reason why it used to take roughly 13 years for a Jesuit to reach ordination was the long indoctrination in orthodoxy required for priests who, unlike “regular clergy” (whose training lasted half that time), would be mobile and beyond the
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control of bishops.
The final piece of the development-financing puzzle is external private funding, delivered via foreign
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investment, international bank loans, bond and equity markets, and private remittances.
The energy monopoly Naftogaz, previously a cesspool of illicit transactions, has in a year managed the seemingly impossible: making Ukraine virtually independent from
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gas delivery from Russia for at least a year.
According to SAFE, as of February 2012, China had accumulated $4.7 trillion in foreign assets through purchases of United States government securities and other investments, and more than $2.9 trillion in foreign liabilities through foreign
direct
investment (FDI) and borrowing.
The EU may not have imposed sweeping quotas and tariffs, but powerful “behind the border” protectionism has emerged in the form of subsidies, bailouts, “buy national” injunctions, and new restrictions on foreign
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investment.
Serbian President Boris Tadic deserves great credit for this action, especially since his good friend Zoran Djindjic, then prime minister of Serbia, was assassinated in 2003 as a
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result of his courage in arresting Milosevic and sending him to The Hague in 2001.
China’s
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investment in Africa has grown from a scant $500 million in 2003 to $15 billion in 2012.
Federal assumption of the states’ war debts also yielded an advantage in terms of economic development: once states no longer had any debt, they had no need to raise any revenues through
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taxation, which might have impeded the growth of America’s internal market.
Ireland showed the importance of foreign
direct
investment.
China is not the only country that is engaging, through
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or indirect state action, in massive cyber operations against other countries’ political and economic structures.
The point is to step outside of one’s comfort zones, distance oneself from the voices around the table that sound just like one’s own, and remember that board members are responsible for the
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and indirect impact of their decisions.
Before Iran’s Islamic revolution, it led Turkey in foreign
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investment, income per head, and GDP growth.
The financial damage did not stop at the country's borders; as a
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result of the slowdown in Japan, automobile production dropped by some 20% in Thailand, 50% in China, and 70% in India.
But excessive compensation is just another
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consequence of the regulators’ own mistake of setting insufficient minimum capital requirements.
Redistribution levels are the
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result of policy choices, which typically also reflect cultural and historical factors.The point is not to get lost in endless comparisons or arcane mathematics, but to underscore that it is possible – and, indeed, necessary – to have a meaningful discussion of inequality, based on concrete figures, with the goal of establishing clear targets.
Inequality is not some inevitable, uncontrollable feature of any economy; like the level of redistribution, it is the
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result of policy choices.
Redistribution levels are the
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result of policy choices, which typically also reflect cultural and historical factors.
Though the US and Iran remain opposed to official cooperation, the wheels have been set in motion, with
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bilateral talks becoming routine.
America’s trade volume with the EU is roughly 37 times higher than that with Russia, with huge mutual
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investments locking in the transatlantic partners’ interdependence.
Banks also provide critical services to governments and business, by providing
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access to global buyers of debt and equity, and by establishing large, consistent markets of buyers and sellers.
A major cause of the deterioration of the US-Saudi relationship is Obama’s decision to diminish America’s
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involvement in the Middle East.
Taming Hamas is in Egypt’s interest, but it refuses to pay the price of a
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confrontation because that might lead Egyptian forces to be perceived as Israel’s protectors.
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