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China, for its part, also took advantage of a “demographic dividend”: fertility rates fell, and the labor force grew faster than the dependent population, freeing up resources to
invest
in people and capital.
More problematic, lower oil prices encourage excessive consumption – the long-term environmental impact of which will be compounded by the weakening incentive to
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in alternative energy sources.
Unlike the Chinese, the Bank has too often forgotten the most basic lessons of development, preferring to lecture the poor and force them to privatize basic infrastructure, rather than to help the poor to
invest
in infrastructure and other crucial sectors.
Snow’s other major contribution was to identify the central role that water plays in spreading diseases like cholera, leading authorities in Europe to
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in the development of sewage and sanitation systems.
Decades before the discovery of cures like penicillin, there was no alternative but to
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in prevention to beat infectious diseases and protect growing urban populations.
Developing and developed nations alike must
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in reducing emissions.
To the extent that we
invest
across sectors and regions to improve our carbon productivity (GDP per unit of carbon emitted), we will weaken the pollution constrain on global growth.
Nearly half of the respondents indicated that, when possible, they prefer to
invest
in technology or outsource to third parties and hire part-time workers, none of whom receive much additional training or have a stake in their company’s long-term success.
The wealthy G8 nations – which alone can afford to
invest
in such an ambitious worldwide project – together spend several hundred million dollars a year on global conservation activities.
With appropriate, accessible, and fairly priced financial services, people can build their savings, cover the costs of unexpected emergencies, and
invest
in their families’ health, housing, and education.
Without profits, MFIs are unable to
invest
in the talent and product development needed to serve people for the long term.
Up to a point, and to the extent that income differences are due to differences in ability, effort, investment in education, etc., they are necessary to providing the correct incentives to invest, work, innovate, and grow.
It takes time to reach a decision on whether or not to
invest
in a project, and once an investment decision is made, it becomes rather difficult to stop the process quickly.
All organizations should
invest
in ethics officers or some sort of review process involving people who can assess all of the implications of a great-sounding idea.
To complement this effort, we must also
invest
in improving our understanding of how these risk factors – most often studied in connection with early childhood and adulthood – affect adolescents’ health.
It is thus imperative that governments and donors
invest
in building an expert consensus on how best to measure mental health and implement those methods globally, including in low-resource settings.
And we need to
invest
in collecting the data that are so essential to ensuring that they are.
This enables the entrepreneurial state to continue to invest, catalyzing the next wave of innovations.
The key, as I have highlighted before, is to
invest
in building innovative data systems that draw on new sources of real-time data for sustainable development.
Their absence makes it difficult to
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too large amounts of money in Russian securities.
M-Pesa first needed to
invest
in many brick-and-mortar stores where subscribers could convert the cash they earn into digital money (and back into cash).
It may therefore be tempting to
invest
in inflation-indexed bonds, which adjust both principal and interest payments to offset the effects of changes in price growth.
Given that childhood cancers are all rare or ultra-rare diseases, the ability of the biopharmaceutical industry to
invest
resources into development of new treatments is limited at best.
Now we must leverage current scientific opportunities and
invest
the resources needed to develop more effective, less toxic therapies, thereby improving outcomes for all children with cancer.
It can cut taxes to stimulate consumption and it can
invest
in construction, but these sectors currently need little help, except perhaps for the automobile industry.
The cause of his outburst – accompanied by threats to impose taxes “like never before” on the company – was the news that Harley plans to
invest
in new manufacturing operations outside of the United States.
Leading international marketplaces are dominated by institutional investors, a growing share of which are passive index followers that lack incentives to
invest
in governance oversight.
For example, Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, the world’s largest sovereign-wealth fund, has complained about Snapchat’s inclusion in the FTSE, which prevents it from voting its shares, even as it is forced to invest, since it tracks the index.
A new report from the “Breaking the Climate Deadlock” project, a strategic partnership between my office and The Climate Group, shows how major reductions even by 2020 are achievable if we focus action on certain key technologies, deploy policies that have been proven to work, and
invest
now in developing those future technologies that will take time to mature.
While cap-and-trade systems or other means of pricing carbon emissions can help provide incentives for businesses to
invest
in low-carbon solutions, in the short term at least, these seven policy measures – and direct action and investment by governments – are needed to achieve the targets.
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