Environment
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A safe and enabling
environment
for sustainable development must allow people to criticize the process without fear of reprisal, and most projects will benefit in the long run if they are accepted, if not fully endorsed, by directly affected communities.
There are still important gains to be had from further improvements in the broader business
environment.
Conversely, the poor are the first to suffer from deterioration of their natural
environment.
But in the developing world, immediate economic needs often override long-term imperatives, and protecting a fragile
environment
is rarely a priority at the national level.
On the grounds that the
environment
in developing countries provides unique ecological services to the whole of mankind, some argue that their populations should not exploit the natural resources on their territories.
The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), an international initiative launched eight years ago, is based on the principle that local communities themselves are the best trustees of the
environment
that surrounds them, and that their economic growth will advance their capacity to care for nature.
In today’s increasingly Hobbesian global environment, the EU can survive only by increasing its capacity to project power – no easy feat for an entity that was formed precisely as a repudiation of power politics.
More of the same in US-Latin American relations would mean four more years of "the war on terror" at center stage, four more years of pressing issues - trade, poverty, the environment, immigration - placed on the back burner, and four more years of an American foreign policy that defines friendship in terms of the number of troops sent to Iraq.
And those people can no longer afford to ignore the lasting damage done to their environment, communities, and families.
Today, however, the real threats to the majority of the world's population stems from dangers almost unknown back then: poverty, hunger, population growth, migration, the environment, and the like.
Shanghai’s role in trade, finance, investment, and shipping – together with an increasingly open service sector, improved regulatory environment, and focus on institutional innovation – will eventually lead to domestic market reform and drive China’s integration into new trade agreements.
A vote against EU membership, especially in such a dangerous international environment, truly would be irrational.
I, too, prefer an
environment
in which governments do not interfere with imports and exports, and in which US firms can operate freely in foreign countries.
Not surprisingly, this has compromised much-needed economic reforms and is causing deterioration in the business
environment.
The result is a “winner-takes-most” market
environment
that strongly disadvantages start-ups, entrepreneurial innovation, and sustained creation of high-quality jobs.
Most firms operate in a simpler
environment
with fewer variables than central banks.
But if God gave us brains, it was so that we should use them to ensure a balance between people and nature to help eliminate hunger and protect the
environment.
The low-interest-rate
environment
has also caused lenders to take extra risks in order to sustain profits.
In 2010, the European Commission, after considering 25 years of GM-organisms (GMOs) research, concluded that “there is, as of today, no scientific evidence associating GMOs with higher risks for the
environment
or for food and feed safety than conventional plants and organisms.”
The final issue that ministers should be prepared to discuss in Buenos Aires is the need to ensure that the WTO adapts effectively to a changing international
environment.
To make matters worse, the eurozone depends on oil imports even more than the United States does, and oil prices are rising, even as the political and policy
environment
is deteriorating.
But if fintech is to reach its potential to advance the global public good, another factor must be accounted for: the
environment.
The rewards of such initiatives could be substantial – for households, financial-services providers, economies, and the
environment.
Such technologies enable us to record and trace the lifecycle of products – even money itself – thereby determining precisely how they were used, how they were financed, and what impact they had on the
environment.
With the right approach, fintech can be harnessed to strengthen economies and societies, while helping to preserve the
environment.
Not surprisingly, defectors nowadays describe an
environment
of social breakdown, petty crime, and a Darwinian struggle for survival.
China’s entrepreneurs and its rapidly expanding middle class are concerned, first and foremost, about their property rights, including the security of their accumulated wealth, amid regulatory tightening with regard to taxation, finance, cross-border capital flows, and even the
environment.
Finally, to attempt this rebalancing in the current fiscal
environment
without tax increases (perhaps temporary measures designed to overcome the cumulative investment shortfall) would be very unwise.
Households, corporations, financial institutions, and governments are all facing balance-sheet constraints, which it seems plausible to assume, are holding back expenditure and investment, elevating savings, and contributing to a broadly deflationary
environment.
But raising interest rates unilaterally carries serious risks, because in a demand-constrained environment, higher interest rates attract capital inflows, thereby driving up the exchange rate and undermining growth in the tradable part of the economy.
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