Environment
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Pirate fishing around the world is costing fishermen their jobs and income, and is inflicting serious harm on the ocean
environment.
His administration shaped the regulatory
environment
to achieve rapid adoption of internet-based activities and championed government programs to help get schools and libraries connected to the internet.
Indeed, the current growth model is also taking a heavy toll on the environment, with pollution threatening the population’s health, especially in urban areas.
The Global Fund plays an important role in this funding environment, providing approximately 66% of all current external funds in the fight against TB, 45% in the fight against malaria, and 20% of all external support to combat HIV/AIDS.
The challenges fall into ten categories – a familiar list of key issues in this part of the world: democracy, education, employment, the environment, fiscal problems, health, infrastructure, poverty and inequality, public administration, and crime.
But the country’s rampant violence has created an
environment
of insecurity that complicates everyday life for many Mexicans.
For starters, China will have to clean up its
environment
– something that ordinary Chinese now view not as a luxury, but as an imperative.
They have succeeded in setting up a largely informal learning environment, focusing mainly on truly interactive learning.
While such efforts certainly point in the right direction, the research-friendliness and innovativeness of the wider societal
environment
– particularly practices of informal learning and opportunities to follow one’s curiosity – also matter.
In other words, individuals – usually assumed to be identical – fully use all available information to forecast the future in an
environment
of perfect competition, no capital market shortcomings, and full insurance of all risks.
Verleger argues that energy independence “could make this the New American Century by creating an economic
environment
where the United States enjoys access to energy supplies at much lower cost than other parts of the world.”
Yet the regional
environment
remains far from conducive to entrepreneurship.
Though some scholars and thinkers are fit to be “leaders of the people,” a favorable
environment
is needed to coax them out of their ivory towers.
In this newly precarious
environment
of work and welfare, UBI is seen as guaranteeing the basic income previously promised by work and welfare, but no longer reliably secured by either.
Similarly, the external
environment
may become less favorable, as the long process of global deleveraging impedes economic recovery in China’s key foreign markets.
The extent to which policymaking by the country’s new leader, Xi Jinping, takes into account the insecurity felt by China’s neighbors – and abandons a quest for absolute security for China – will be one of the key variables influencing East Asia’s security
environment
in the years ahead.
Such a modern China would be a world leader in innovation, with a clean environment, a large middle class, and a much narrower gap between rural and urban growth, public services, and living standards.
Ironically, spending cuts for health, education and training, and the environment, along with large regressive personal and business tax reductions, will further enrich the “elite” while undermining programs that benefit the majority of households.
Clearly, Europe's answer to globalization is that certain spheres of social life-say, healthcare, education, the environment, or culture-cannot be left to the whip of the market.
East Asian economies could then, over time, cooperate to enhance regional exchange-rate stability, thereby creating a more conducive
environment
for intra-regional trade.
And rapid economic growth is occurring in an
environment
of small deficits, low debt, and controlled inflation.
In the short run, this restructuring could lead to localized balance-sheet recessions, despite the authorities’ efforts to create a more accommodating macroeconomic
environment.
On the positive side, the revival of China’s stock market in a low-interest-rate
environment
represents an important shift in asset allocation away from real estate and deposits.
One problem is that development outcomes also depend on poor countries’ external economic environment, which is shaped by the policies of the major economies.
But while money certainly matters, the evidence suggests that development outcomes are determined more by factors like state capacity and national policies, and crucially, a supportive global
environment.
Of course, nutrition, education, health, and the
environment
are important features of the next development agenda.
In others, they concern armed factions (Colombia and Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador), the
environment
(Argentina and Uruguay, Colombia and Ecuador), migration (Mexico and Guatemala), human rights (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and energy (Brazil and Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay, Argentina and Chile).
Australia's Prime Minister Paul Keating recently spoke for many demonstrators and regional governments when he stated that the French nuclear test series at Mururoa Atoll "causes anger throughout the world not only because of concern for the Pacific
environment
but because it puts at risk our hopes for a post-Cold War world that does not have the nuclear shadow hanging over it".
Clearly, the key features of Silicon Valley that foster innovation and entrepreneurship – a dense concentration of human talent, a competitive spirit, easy access to capital, and a supportive regulatory
environment
– can be replicated in and adapted to a wide variety of contexts.
Of course, high-profile issues that affect people’s daily lives – for example, health, education, food security, clean water and sanitation, and the
environment
– attract the most attention.
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