Factors
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These
factors
– together with the lack of trade data for regions within countries – have led economists only rarely to consider countries’ internal surpluses or deficits.
Since the 1950s, for example, the field has been extended to risk factors, a concept that grew out of debates about the health effects of tobacco and studies of cardiovascular diseases with multiple potential causes.
Some risk
factors
– moderate hypertension and high cholesterol, for example – have themselves become chronic diseases, requiring medical (and sometimes surgical) treatment and further contributing to the rise in illness rates.
Yet demographic
factors
are often neglected in economic reporting, leading to significant distortions in assessments of countries’ performance.
Other factors, in addition to trade policy, also matter, of course.
Protection of property rights, civil and political liberties, protection from random violence are among other significant
factors
in promoting economic growth.
Despite the recent stock market jitters, the constellation of institutional and political
factors
for this giant experiment to succeed has never been so favorable, as exemplified by the spread of democracy and the rule of law in this decade.
After all, the
factors
which once explained why economies often developed out of step no longer exist.
Yet a combination of
factors
that have mushroomed over time has raised serious concerns about the threat that corruption poses to the very fabric of the Indian state.
The other promising option, gene therapy, entails the delivery of genes that “instruct” existing support cells in the spinal cord and muscle to create molecules called growth
factors
to help motor neurons survive, despite the presence of toxins.
The solution, then, is for scientists to strip viruses of their own disease-causing genes, replacing them with new genes that tell cells to produce growth
factors
for motor neurons.
Economic growth is determined not only by
factors
of production such as labor, capital, and technology, but also by institutional arrangements.
That is a shame, for a constellation of
factors
now places the IMF at a crossroads where creative leadership is needed.
What tipped them from middle-class lifestyles to incomes just above the poverty line were likely to have been one or all of three
factors.
At the same time, Europe’s massive shift to a trade surplus (a key factor underpinning the region’s new-found stability) and the Japanese yen’s sharp depreciation are among myriad
factors
squeezing countries seeking to rein in current-account deficits.
Economists and others often tend to look at countries as a whole and emphasize national attitudes and national policies as the main
factors
in encouraging or discouraging entrepreneurship.
This investment shortfall is due to many factors, but perhaps the main one is that there are substantial medium-term institutional roadblocks to investment in many developing countries, where long-term returns now seem to be by far the highest.
The stock market’s latest “dead cat bounce” may last a while longer, but three
factors
will, in due course, lead it to turn south again.
In studying these and other cases, the Innovation and Policy Initiative at INSEAD has identified four
factors
– the “Four Cs” – that support technological innovation and entrepreneurship: cost, convenience, caliber, and creative destruction.
Success lies in the ability of firms to combine these
factors
either in a single country or across several markets.
Sometimes, the overwhelming benefits of one or more
factors
are decisive.
The challenge for governments is to improve those less mobile
factors
of innovation – cost, caliber, and convenience – in order to attract, retain, and encourage free-flowing capital and the most creative citizens.
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission put the blame squarely on the derivatives market as one of the three central
factors
driving the events of late 2008 and 2009.
In their 2011 book Beyond Mechanical Markets, the economists Roman Frydman of New York University and Michael Goldberg of the University of New Hampshire argued powerfully that economists’ models should try to “incorporate psychological
factors
without presuming that market participants behave irrationally.”
Even Simon Kuznets, the main architect of the concept of GDP, recognized that it does not account for many of the
factors
affecting human well-being; he argued that it should be used “only with some qualifications.”
However, while these
factors
may explain some of Scandinavia’s success, the low rate of unemployment and the high level of GDP per capita also have a much more straightforward explanation: the high share of government employment in the labor force.
Many
factors
contribute to this disarray, beginning with the shocking inability of the US, Europe, and the international organizations to understand things from the perspective of poor and displaced people.
After all, such an approach would require careful strategic design and skillful implementation – not to mention plenty of good luck – guided by a nuanced understanding of economic, political, and geopolitical
factors.
Higher divorce rates and increasing numbers of people living alone influence civic life because, controlling for other factors, single people are less likely to be trusting and less engaged civically than married people.
In Brazil, the central bank views the integration of environmental and social
factors
into risk management as a way to strengthen resilience.
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