Environment
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Networked LeadersCAMBRIDGE – In an
environment
of mobile phones, computers, and Web sites such as MySpace, Facebook, and LinkedIn, it is commonplace to say that we live in a networked world.
In the Internet environment, the traditional view of a leader being decisively in control is difficult to reconcile with reality.
In today’s deflationary environment, the reverse has happened.
But we know nothing about the other 79, except that in these organisms, in this environment, life is impossible without them.
Moreover, as Venter and his colleagues acknowledge, if the team began with a different microbe, or grew it in a different environment, the set of necessary genes would be different.
The SDGs aim to relieve these pressures, by protecting the
environment
and improving the lives of people within their home countries.
In this environment, reflected in Trump’s embrace of the antiquated Westphalian model of nation-states, achieving the SDGs will probably be impossible.
So, while bribery in China may facilitate growth to some extent, it does not produce the kind of competitive business
environment
that supports long-term gains.
Confronted with the problem of bringing about positive changes in a domestic or international
environment
that seems to defy the power of “normal” leaders, one looks for new Alexanders to untie the “Gordian knot” and transcend complexity by sheer force of will and dynamism.
The key to Bangladesh’s success was government programs that created an enabling
environment
for private investment through micro-credit, risk guarantees, and small installation grants.
With the right regulatory
environment
and sufficient financing, renewable low-carbon technologies could do for the energy sector what mobile phones have done for telecommunications.
Money for NothingBRUSSELS – The developed world seems to be moving toward a long-term zero-interest-rate
environment.
Clearly, Japan’s near-zero interest-rate
environment
is no longer unique.
In an
environment
of zero or near-zero interest rates, creditors have an incentive to “extend and pretend” – that is, roll over their maturing debt, so that they can keep their problems hidden for longer.
That is why, in the current interest-rate environment, the Maastricht Treaty’s requirement limiting public debt to 60% of GDP is meaningless – and why the so-called “fiscal compact” requiring countries to make continued progress toward that level should be reconsidered.
But, in a zero interest-rate environment, that role must be reevaluated.
Arab states like Jordan have shown that reducing corruption in the security sector enables significant improvements, even in a challenging
environment
comprising long borders, extensive black market trade fed by wars in neighboring states, and large refugee populations.
We do know that when materials resist degradation, they may be present in the
environment
for long periods of time, and thus have a greater chance of interacting with the living
environment.
Moreover, like toxicity and persistence, little is known about how nanoparticles are likely to move about in the
environment.
Concerns over nanomaterials’ possible effects on health and the
environment
have perhaps overshadowed the pressing need to ensure that their production is clean and environmentally benign.
Obama’s Underachieving Foreign PolicyPARIS – To evaluate an American president’s foreign-policy performance after one term is challenging, given the complex diplomatic and strategic
environment
and significant domestic constraints that confront every US president.
To be sure, Obama faces a more complex diplomatic and strategic
environment
than Nixon faced in the 1970’s.
It is inevitably a long road from a starting point where credits are channeled to state-owned enterprises through state-owned banks to an economic
environment
in which interest rates are a proper indicator of monetary policy.
Jean-Claude Trichet, the current ECB president, may be in the same job but not the same
environment
as his predecessor Wim Duisenberg, who famously remarked, “I hear the politicians, but I don’t listen.”
The political
environment
is much more hostile.
Rather, we must seize the moment to address the sources of fragility, conflict, and violence around the world, and to create an encouraging
environment
for more private-sector investment.
But the current political
environment
makes it all the more important that we get the next phase of development finance right.
The world’s major powers are far more interdependent financially and in terms of supply chains than they were in 1914 – the year of misguided optimism that pessimists love to cite – and the cumulative horrors of the twentieth century have fundamentally changed the normative
environment.
Only if wages adjust downward to accommodate the new international
environment
can German workers become competitive again, so that the country returns to a higher employment level, exploiting its human capital up to the capacity constraint.
The Rise of Mid-Level PowersThe security
environment
since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States has clearly demonstrated the limits of the United Nations, or even the US as the world’s sole military superpower, to maintain international security.
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