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Over many years spent investigating these issues, Global Witness has discovered that the ability to hide money offshore depends on two factors: banks that accept dirty money, and companies that help the wealthy, well-connected, and corrupt to conceal their identities.
Consumer confidence is being steadily eroded by a number of
factors
that lead people to question the extent to which they are valued.
In a recent paper, “Buffett’s Alpha,” Andrea Frazzini and David Kabiller of AQR Capital Management and Lasse Pedersen of Copenhagen Business School, conclude that Buffett is not generating significantly positive alpha if one takes account of certain lesser-known risk
factors
that have weighed heavily in his portfolio.
The implication is that Buffet’s genius could be replicated by a computer program that incorporates these
factors.
Three main
factors
brought Hamas into leadership in the January 2006 parliamentary elections.
Low world commodities prices and protectionism against Argentina’s agricultural exports are additional
factors.
Environmental
factors
and infrastructure are critical for creating such dynamic, competitive conditions.
The
factors
accounting for the record of failure in the Middle East – history, culture, religion, and personalities – are worthy of serious examination.
With all these factors, failure in the Olympics, it is suggested, is encoded in our national DNA.
However, we must first address the political
factors
that underlie most misunderstandings between America and Europe.
Two
factors
– in addition to Lugo’s strategic missteps and the shifting alliances within the government coalition – explain why Paraguay’s leaders have driven their country off this cliff.
It is also well known that European productivity is falling behind, too, probably due to the same
factors
that make Europe seem dull, cautious, and lacking in ambition when compared with many of its competitors.
Evans depicts this policy, proposed by a panel of experts as balanced, as being “aimed at reducing both ‘push’ and ‘pull’
factors
driving refugee flows.”
But achieving it is not – in no small part because Europe's heavy reliance on bank finance stems from structural and cultural
factors.
The problem is that many country-specific factors, such as political concerns and pressure from vested interests, can impede this process.
It may have been a singular occurrence that reflected a variety of factors, including the euro crisis; continued economic weakness in many European countries; the sharp decline in commodity prices; dramatic slowdowns in Brazil, Russia, and other emerging economies; and tighter regulations for international banks, which might have hindered trade finance.
The latter approach is particularly relevant to conditions such as heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes, which most closely reflect individual behavior, physical context, and socioeconomic
factors.
Indeed, traditional medical care accounts for only a small share (perhaps 20%) of our quality of life and life expectancy, while the rest is determined by healthy behavior, social and economic factors, and the physical environment.
Even the Internet, it turns out, is not as borderless as it seems: one study found that Americans are much more likely to visit Web sites from countries that are physically close than from countries that are far away, even after controlling for language, income, and many other
factors.
In this confrontation, international credibility and legitimacy will be the deciding factors, and ensuring them will require far-sighted and cool, calculated American leadership.
Of course, trade is just one of many
factors
driving economic growth, which has been strong in the US this year, largely owing to late-cycle fiscal stimulus.
This positive trend is likely to persist, given that it is based on structural geographic and demographic factors, such as rising exports, improved trade conditions, and steadily increasing domestic consumption.
But Africa’s national governments still face significant challenges, given the wide variety of
factors
at play in each country.
Africa’s shift toward regional integration encourages competitiveness by distributing more effectively production
factors
– such as inputs and equipment – and by allowing greater labor mobility.
To ensure global food security – not to mention other fundamental human rights – for all, we need to recognize our limitations, in terms of both social and biophysical factors, and do whatever it takes to ensure that we do not exceed them.
The way chromatin works is, in turn, shaped by genetic and environmental factors, making their functioning difficult to grasp.
This process, like other forms of genetic expression, seems to be driven by a combination of innate and environmental
factors.
No single mechanism, it seems, can be studied in isolation; at a very basic level,
factors
like selection, drift, and epigenetics work together and become inseparable.
But the momentum remains far from strong enough, and, in general, capital markets still do not incorporate climate and carbon
factors
when pricing assets and evaluating risk.
From a macroeconomic perspective, China’s current inflation is attributable both to demand-pull and cost-push
factors.
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