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Is it appropriate to invest in tobacco companies?
The effect of fiscal and regulatory pressure on employment is to encourage French firms to invest and hire outside France.
But companies are reluctant to invest in CCS because it adds substantial cost and generates no revenue.
If CCS is to fulfill its potential, companies need incentives to invest and a way to make money.
Second, CCS needs to be recognized within the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism, through which developed countries can invest in emission-reduction projects in developing countries.
Even Afghan expatriates in the Gulf states, who have invested roughly $5 billion in regional and global trading networks, are reluctant to invest in their homeland.
Governments could invest much more in infrastructure and innovation at zero cost.
A much sounder approach than Kyoto and its successor would be to invest more in research and development of zero-carbon energy technologies – a cheaper, more effective way to truly solve the climate problem.
This makes it more worthwhile for businesses to invest in expanding their capacity, thus trading away cash they could distribute to their shareholders today for a better market position that will allow them to reward their shareholders in the future.
We would like to boost spending immediately by getting businesses to invest not only in projects that trade safe cash now for safe profits in the future, but also in those that are risky or uncertain.
These markets have been insulated in part because most investment in real estate-backed securities has come from local investors who often need to invest in local-currency markets.
Typically, faculty members establish private firms, often with students and support staff, while retaining their academic positions, and university administrations invest in legally independent incubator companies, usually in molecular biology, computer science, combinatorial chemistry, and other fields.
In addition, because China has built up a capacity to invest that is far larger than its domestic economy can now absorb, it will inevitably seek opportunities abroad, both public and private.
A Londoner, as Keynes put it, could send his servant to fetch any amount of foreign currency, and he could invest his sterling wherever he wished.
The sectoral distribution of Chinese firms’ outward investment indicates that there is not even an effective market mechanism at work driving Chinese firms to invest in a rational way.
Labor-market liberalization would allow firms in the domestic sector to fire workers more rapidly, but would do little to encourage export-oriented firms to invest more and create more jobs, especially when the domestic banking system is under stress and cannot provide new credit.
When the current abnormally low interest rates on long-term bonds rise over the next few years, it will become more attractive for producers to increase the supply of oil and invest the resulting income at the higher rate.
For some reason, achieving a level of investment that would generate full employment seems to require negative real (inflation-adjusted) interest rates, which is another way of saying that people have to be paid to invest.
We must use it to invest in innovation and human capital, which will further boost growth in the region.
Each side has demonstrated a willingness to invest in the other’s future, not just lurch from deal to deal.
Indeed, bold action of the type Juncker and Macron have proposed would not just be uncharacteristic for Merkel; it would also require her to invest all of her remaining political capital.
If after all of this, there is still evidence of a lack of demand, the government could reduce its consumer taxes, increase investment tax credits, expand programs to help low- and middle-income households, or invest more in technology and education, financing all of this by issuing money.
They can take their money elsewhere, or choose not to invest – imposing substantial costs on the rest of society.
One of UNAIDS’ tasks is to encourage national governments to keep AIDS high on their public-health agendas, and to invest in joint efforts to end the disease.
On top of all this, there is a shadow financial system of non-bank financial institutions that, like banks, borrow short and liquid and lend to or invest in longer-term and illiquid assets.
Losses in stock markets have a double effect: they reduce households’ wealth and lead them to spend less; and they cause massive losses to investors who borrowed to invest in stock, thus triggering margin calls and asset fire sales.
Tighter credit rationing will then further hamper the ability of households and firms to borrow, spend, invest, and sustain economic growth.
The best way to maintain NATO’s credibility and be taken seriously by the US is to work seriously toward the alliance’s 2%-of-GDP target for defense spending and to invest more heavily in conventional military capabilities, not to satisfy US demands, but to protect our own security and defense interests.
Africans living outside their home countries, especially those in the US or Europe, find that they often can effectively invest in their homelands by drawing on tribal ties.
So Germany, if not warmly welcoming, finds itself soliciting Indian computer programmers, while Canada and other countries entice China's middle classes with a safe haven in which to invest just in case things go wrong at home.
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