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Several factors have contributed to this decline.
But, even today, we are still far from understanding many important factors, connections, motives, reasons, and consequences in what happened in 1917 and during the first years of Soviet power.
Economists would rather talk about interest rates or unemployment statistics - factors that are concrete and knowable.
The psychological factors are more important for longer-term forecasts, beyond a year, where momentum no longer plays an important role.
An economy's productivity - that is, how much it produces per worker employed - depends on three factors: its endowment of capital, the quality of the country's workers and its ability to combine workers and capital efficiently to produce goods and services, what economists refer to as "total factor productivity."
Success in this area depends on two factors: technology - both the talent to innovate and the ability to adopt new production techniques - and organization.
Some 1,260 companies, managing $45 trillion worth of assets, are signatories of the United Nations’ “principles for responsible investment,” which recognize environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors – and thus the long-term health and stability of companies and markets – as critical to investors.
One signatory, CalPERS, one of the world’s largest institutional investors, has gone a step further: it will require all of its investment managers to identify and integrate ESG factors into their decisions – a bold move that could transform capital markets.
Many ESG factors come into play when evaluating sustainable investment options.
For example, the Generation Foundation – the think tank of Generation Investment Management (on whose advisory board I serve) – identifies 17 environmental factors, 16 social factors, and 12 governance factors relevant to sustainability.
The challenge is to distinguish between the ESG factors that have a material influence on company performance and those that do not.
Using the SASB’s proposed standards for 45 industries, as well as other metrics, a new study – the most definitive so far – has found that companies that perform well on material sustainability factors have better operational performance, are less risky, and earn significantly higher shareholder returns than companies that perform poorly.
Similarly, a new framework recently proposed by Morgan Stanley for valuations of companies in 29 industries includes ESG factors that pose material risks or opportunities.
Material ESG factors can affect a company’s financial performance and shareholder returns through several channels.
In fact, if a company is to fulfill its fiduciary responsibility to its investors, it has little choice but to go beyond financial returns to incorporate ESG factors that are likely to have a material impact on its performance over time.
Though broad figures are being collected, there are not enough granular data to provide a clear picture of the specific factors affecting air quality.
While factors like natural resources and geography undoubtedly contribute to countries’ performance, such comparisons can be useful to spur purposeful action, with specific data points offering insights into where each country could stand to improve.
In fact, eurozone banks’ preference for home-country sovereign bonds is rooted in a combination of factors, including fear of redenomination – a consequence of the crisis that leads banks to concentrate their risk domestically – and the expectation that bailout mechanisms will be national.
These factors give good grounds for expecting further dollar weakness.
Four factors have contributed most to this positive reversal: the Georgia war, the global economic crisis, the Obama factor, and China’s relentless rise.
Chinese policymakers should bear in mind that the value of the yuan is only one among many factors that affects the competitiveness of China’s economy.
At the same time, other factors may well oblige Venezuela’s next president to alter the country’s foreign policy in some ways.
This growth has been driven by a variety of factors.
Second, ensure integration – rather than merely coordination – of economic factors into the political and security agenda.
There is no reason to believe that inclusiveness affects the sustainability of growth patterns only in developing countries, though the specific dynamics depend on a number of factors.
NEWPORT BEACH – Six internal factors suggest that the United States’ economy is slowly healing.
For some observers, these factors were deemed sufficient to form the critical mass needed to propel the economy into escape velocity.
With this and other elements of a disheartening employment report now suddenly raising widespread worries about the underlying health and durability of America’s recovery, it is important to understand the positive factors and why they are not enough as yet.
The third and fourth positive factors relate to housing and the labor market.
Each of these six factors suggests actual and potential economic healing.
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