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No one knows how much such product innovations and improvements have added to our wellbeing.
Only when that point is established, if necessary at the cost of a growth slowdown, can we expect to start seeing improvements in labor market behavior.
This link is particularly obvious in developing countries, where economic expansion and rising incomes are preconditions for poverty reduction and improvements in health and education.
Big business brought major productivity improvements, but it also increased the power of private companies to act in ways that were injurious to the broader marketplace – and to society.
CAMBRIDGE – The steady stream of improvements in driverless cars has convinced me that before too long the roads will be filled with cars and trucks operating without humans at the wheel.
A reduction in working hours per employee translates into quality-of-life improvements like longer vacations and longer weekends.
As China’s Premier, Zhao implemented ten years of economic reforms that brought steady progress in which the people, especially the peasantry, enjoyed tangible improvements.
Governments must now rise to the opportunity afforded to them of authorizing the necessary improvements.
Many developing countries lack the funds, infrastructure, and training needed to use sophisticated data-collection tools; but that doesn’t mean they can’t make significant improvements in data collection.
Ensuring that the ACA would remain in place for some minimum fixed term, rather than leaving it vulnerable to immediate repeal by Donald Trump’s administration, might have enabled a more fundamental transformation of America’s flawed health-care system, including through improvements to “Obamacare” itself.
This means less control and direct oversight of the bureaucracy, and an increased incentive to spend the day thinking up big plans rather than concentrating on targeted improvements.
Long-term productivity growth, however, depends on educational improvements, adequate provision of public goods and infrastructure, and a healthy business environment that stimulates entrepreneurship and innovation.
While GCC countries have made major improvements in hygiene and maternal and child health, they form the global epicenter of chronic non-communicable diseases – such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and, increasingly, cancer – that result from lifestyle and diet.
Given the opportunity to govern honestly and peacefully for a few years, the administrations of Presidents Obasanjo and Wahid could make vast improvements in the lives of ordinary Nigerians and Indonesians.
In any case, China’s leaders have demonstrated a willingness and ability to look at the big picture, accepting lower rates of GDP growth as they rebalance the country’s development model and pursue improvements in quality of life.
Consider the problem of accounting for quality improvements.
It seems clear, therefore, that improvements to Saudi Aramco’s corporate governance do not rest, on which international venue the authorities choose for the secondary listing, as is commonly assumed, but on whether the company will be required to meet domestic standards.
It is encouraging in this regard that Saudi Arabia has quietly made major improvements to Saudi Aramco’s corporate governance in the last two years.
Moreover, business failures due to premature euroization will inevitably increase as chronically weaker domestic firms and financial institutions become fully exposed to EU competition before making adequate corporate governance improvements and efficiency gains.
And yet the fear remains: Won’t these same improvements entail giving up all of our jobs – or most of our good jobs?
Broader questions about their contributions to labor displacement and effects on wage growth have also arisen, even as societies increasingly recognize that technological disruption implies the need for education reform and improvements in skills acquisition and retraining.
Recent improvements in data for industrial production, fixed investment, and retail sales suggest that the Chinese economy, which had slowed in recent quarters, may already be on the mend.
There is no reason improvements cannot originate elsewhere.
They must insist upon real and dramatic changes – rather than cosmetic improvements – to Russia’s political system.
Yet China remains in a low position on global value chains, despite recent improvements.
The cuts should sustain private demand this year and next, but at the cost of postponing improvements in private saving and indebtedness.
Since the beginning of the year, Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon have been holding meetings with other business leaders to discuss possible improvements in corporate governance.
In her victory speech, she reiterated some common campaign themes, including the new constitution, improvements to the education system, and gender parity in her administration.
The European Central Bank deserves credit for the economic improvements that have occurred in the past few years.
Well, such a mechanism would indeed reduce raters’ negative incentives to compete with one another to please issuers of securities, and to pursue innovations and improvements that enable raters to serve issuers better.
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