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Global warming is now a vital
factor
to consider when planning any development project.
But technological change may be a more fundamental
factor
– and one with consequences for all countries.
No single
factor
explains this reversal of fortune.
The second
factor
shaping Brazil’s fortunes is the commodity-price super cycle.
This is the third key
factor
contributing to Brazil’s current travails.
The fourth
factor
undermining Brazil’s economic performance arose unexpectedly last year, when a multibillion-dollar corruption scandal engulfed the state-controlled oil company Petrobras, prompting a far-reaching investigation of high-level politicians and triggering a collapse of private investment.
Another
factor
in Greece’s economic collapse is less obvious: the contraction of bank credit.
Iran’s Failing “Mullahnomics”ISTANBUL – As the stand-off between Iran’s government and opposition continues, one
factor
that may determine the outcome, but which is rarely discussed, is the rickety state of the Iranian economy.
Its basis in real estate means that it would not depend on a precarious attempt to tax a mobile
factor
of production.
More often it is the politics of protectionism that are the crucial
factor
behind trade defenses.
It is estimated that around $27 billion a year in subsidies to the fishing industry worldwide have generated excess fishing capacity that exceeds by a
factor
of two the ability of fish to reproduce.
Surely the largest single
factor
in the synchronized global upswing is that the world economy is finally leaving behind the long shadow of the 2008 financial crisis.
One key
factor
limiting firms’ growth is the fragmented nature of the African market, which currently comprises mostly small economies with only limited economic and political linkages.
Indeed, pay arrangements were a major contributing
factor
to the excessive risk-taking by financial institutions that helped bring about the financial crisis.
One major
factor
that induced excessive risk-taking is that firms’ standard pay arrangements reward executives for short-term gains, even when those gains are subsequently reversed.
Corruption therefore cannot be the unique
factor
that holds Africa back.
The International Monetary Fund has been a destabilizing
factor
in East Asia, not so much because of the conditions it imposed on clients, whether good or bad, as by sheltering private financial institutions from the consequences of unwise investments.
Pinker accepts that reason is an important
factor
underlying the trends that he describes.
Under the assumption of labor scarcity and diminishing returns to capital, economic growth cannot be sustained unless total
factor
productivity (TFP) increases significantly.
Another
factor
holding back recovery has been weak growth in spending on goods and services by both state and local governments, and more recently by the federal government.
Italy’s new leaders must address this situation by decoupling labor’s contribution to productivity growth from that of capital and total
factor
productivity.
Yet the desire to hold assets that avoid the medium-term risks associated with the business cycle has overwhelmed this long-run fundamental risk
factor.
But crowdfunding is still not a major
factor
in world markets.
The fifth, and most recent,
factor
is the US Federal Reserve’s signals that it might end its policy of quantitative easing earlier than expected, and its hints of an eventual exit from zero interest rates, both of which have caused turbulence in emerging economies’ financial markets.
But this figure may be optimistic, because it probably doesn't adequately
factor
in the costs of a possible war in Iraq, nor another round of tax cuts, nor the risk of higher interest rates in the years ahead.
The most important
factor
working in India’s favor is its “demographic dividend.”
Today, the collapse in the price of crude oil is probably the most significant
factor
driving inflation below target, just as in 2011 it was the rise in oil prices that drove it above target.
The debate now is how, exactly, to
factor
this imperative into monetary policy, and how to coordinate the work of monetary and regulatory authorities.
One
factor
common to all these complex and unprecedented challenges is poverty; so eliminating it will make overcoming them significantly easier.
But that leaves another
factor
affecting incoming solar radiation: how much gets reflected back into space by ice, snow, clouds, desert sand, and other bright, mirror-like surfaces.
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