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Breaking the Asia-Pacific region’s glass ceiling will require dismantling several barriers, including cultural expectations that women should prioritize childcare over their careers, a lack of suitable or affordable childcare, unconscious bias in the workplace, and a scarcity of role
models
and sponsors.
But this doctrine is not well founded in either theory or practice: its premises are unrealistic, the
models
it supports are inconsistent, and the predictions it produces are often wrong.
Finally, and most important, deep reforms should be undertaken to facilitate a real shift in banks’ business
models
in order to restore their profitability.
From dirigiste France to communist China, countries with widely divergent economic
models
began to adopt a more laissez-faire policymaking approach, predicated on the idea that the less state intervention, the better.
Traditional
models
for funding drug development are faltering.
Although industry incumbents may be slow to shift gears, developing countries creating next-generation biopharma hubs have a unique opportunity to adopt and benefit from alternative
models.
Many of those
models
build upon a common strategy for de-risking investments: assembling a diversified portfolio.
The focus has been appropriately on the cash-flow challenges that come from a combination of large illiquid investment portfolios and large systemic shocks that cause adverse shifts in the cash flow
models.
That is why governments, donors, and the private sector must work together to create business and pricing
models
that allow for cost recovery while still providing an adequate level of digital service to the poorest consumers.
All successful Asian countries have made this shift;South Korea and Taiwan are
models.
But the search for new economic
models
that I called “Capitalism 4.1” has clearly started – for better or worse.
This is what the United Nations climate panel is telling us; the best
models
indicate a sea-level rise over this century of 18 to 59 centimeters (7-24 inches), with the typical estimate at 30 centimeters (one foot).
In fact, it is possible that we are entering a period in which major adaptations in employment models, work weeks, contract labor, minimum wages, and the delivery of essential public services will be needed in order to maintain social cohesion and uphold the core values of equity and intergenerational mobility.
Economic theorists long ago developed
models
that describe how recessions end on their own.
This will demand innovations in the content, delivery, and financing of training, as well as new
models
for public-private partnerships.
We are also familiar with the inherent difficulties of devising and implementing solutions to global problems through nation-states, and have relied on two broad
models
to deal with this predicament.
Those who have invested in an economic model and production processes based on nineteenth- and twentieth-century
models
are perhaps understandably nervous about a paradigm shift.
But most academic
models
show that the cheapest way to reduce CO2 by 20% in 2020 would be to switch from coal to cleaner natural gas.
The average of the major energy
models
indicates that, downscaled for the UK, achieving the 20% target would imply a total cost of roughly £95 billion over the coming decade, and £18 billion every year after that.
Nonetheless, the lesson is clear: if the goal is not just to cut CO2 emissions, but also to use renewables to do it, the
models
show that the cost balloons to £188 billion for this decade and £36 billion every year after 2020.
Or they think that one set of
models
works better “on average” than another.
The oversight was not due to the lack of
models
of bubbles, asymmetric information, distorted incentives, or bank runs.
It was due to the fact that such
models
were neglected in favor of
models
that stressed efficient markets.
They reflect the fact that their discipline comprises a diverse collection of models, and that matching reality to model is an imperfect science with a lot of room for error.
With respect to digitalization, Germany tends to fluctuate between excessive enthusiasm for expanding fiber-optic networks and fear of the impact of new, largely unregulated business models, such as those underpinning avatars of the “sharing economy” like Uber and Airbnb.
And politicians should focus their regulatory efforts on ensuring that sensible digital business
models
and private investment are not obstructed.
But as it looks for ways to improve its tax regime, it must not allow certain sectors – not least those with heavily digitalized business
models
– to evade taxation entirely.
By using cutting-edge climate models, scientists are not only detecting long-term climate change, but also are attributing at least some of the extreme events to human causes.
Amazingly enough, it was Bill Hamilton, along with the political scientist Robert Axelrod and the evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers, who formalized the
models
behind the evolution of reciprocity.
For example, for those who are motivated by profit – like the now-infamous Macedonian teens who earned thousands of dollars running “fake news” sites – new ad policies that disrupt revenue
models
may help.
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