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But the IEA outlines another possible future – what it calls the “African Century” – in which Africa’s governments and donors
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an extra $450 billion in energy.
Globally, we should
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much more in such innovation.
Solvent countries currently can borrow at near-zero interest rates, so the time is right to
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in long-term productive assets in the peripheral countries, thus helping to facilitate the structural reforms that Europe needs to claw its way out of crisis and into a sustainable, prosperous future.
Wealthy locals, for example, could be given incentives to
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in start-ups, while the government could provide low-interest loans and defer repayment until a particular profit threshold is reached.
For example, Chinese representatives disbursed almost $2.3 billion to acquire a 45% stake in one of Nigeria’s offshore oil fields and promised to
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an additional $2.25 billion in develop the reserves.
The TPP’s critics often neglected to acknowledge that international dispute-settlement mechanisms could ever serve a valid purpose, or that some degree of patent protection is needed if pharmaceutical companies are to have sufficient incentive to
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in research and development.
America can cut off trade with Cuba not only by curtailing its own trade but by threatening punitive action against others who trade or
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in Cuba.
Academic research suggests that countries with higher per capita income, lower income inequality, and lower fertility rates tend to
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more in children’s education, with public expenditure leading to higher enrollment rates.
Banks must pay for their implicit government guarantee by using less leverage and accepting restrictions on how they
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depositors’ money.
The challenge is to create an economic environment in which there are incentives for local talent and capital to
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in firms in the modern, tradable parts of the economy.
Many African governments have shown some willingness to
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in public health infrastructure in the past; but a political commitment to the vaccine could mean redirection of resources from other important tools, including rapid test kits, cheap drugs, safe insecticides, and long-lasting insecticidal bed nets.
Indeed, policies traditionally considered “business friendly,” such as tax credits and lower tax rates, can be bad for business in the long run if they limit governments’ future ability to
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in areas that increase innovation-led growth.
For starters, we must
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in education, human capital, technology, and research.
In the OECD, many of the countries with the highest debt-to-GDP ratios – including Italy, Portugal, and Spain – ran relatively modest deficits, but failed to
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effectively in education, research, training, or well-designed welfare programs that facilitate economic adjustment.
Neither the US public nor Congress has proven willing to
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seriously in the instruments of nation building and governance as opposed to military force.
Around Africa, and now around the world, governments are scaling up the lessons from this particular project and others like it: empower communities, help them to
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in their futures using cutting-edge technologies, and thereby end extreme poverty.
This is not to say that we should ignore opportunities to make energy more efficient, or that we should
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solely in RD&D at the expense of improvements to today’s grid.
The only rational course of action would seem to be to curtail global consumption of fossil fuels, as the Kyoto Treaty's proponents contend, and
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in alternative energy sources.
Ever since the fall of Saddam Hussein, the US has urged Saudi Arabia to
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politically and economically in Iraq.
Moreover, multinational companies that
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in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Estonia produce cars, high-end electronics, and industrial machinery both for the domestic market and for export.
With the majority of the world’s population living in resource-challenged settings, we must recognize – and
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in – the efforts of those who are pushing the frontiers of medical science in the developing world.
For example, by mapping how and when people travel, planners can know where to
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more in cleaner modes of transportation – such as bike-sharing systems or electric car-charging stations.
Worse, the recovery is likely to be anemic and sub-par – well below potential for a couple of years, if not longer – as the burden of debts and leverage of the private sector combine with rising public sector debts to limit the ability of households, financial firms, and corporations to lend, borrow, spend, consume, and
invest.
The continent's largest petroleum companies, and equipment suppliers, are ready to
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what is needed to reduce CO 2 emissions.
In contrast, other leaders with different objectives from their followers
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heavily in educating those who would oppose them to a different point of view.
And yet there was a common element in Wen’s Hungary and UK visits: in each case, China offered financing for British and Hungarian firms to
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in China.
Internationally agreed rules stipulate that banks must create capital reserves commensurate to the risks that they take when they
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depositors’ savings.
But any gains from lower taxes are more than offset by the losses to the private sector, which, facing higher financing costs, will
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less, in turn lowering economic growth – and thus reducing government revenues.
Moreover, they should agree on a scheme that results in a credible future path for the price of carbon, which would give the private sector the predictability it needs to
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in energy-saving and clean energy.
Among other things, that fiscal blowout will undermine the government’s ability to
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in education and infrastructure for future generations.
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