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With a view to building local understanding and providing information to the international community, the output of this work is being summarized in a user-friendly, Web-based communication
platform
that is now being developed.
Whereas China’s omnipresence has provoked hostility in several African countries – a presidential candidate in Zambia even campaigned on an explicitly anti-Chinese
platform
– Indian businesses have faced no such reaction in the last two decades.
Both of these networks offer a global
platform
for local practitioners to devise solutions and drive innovation.
As Indonesia’s size makes it a natural leader of ASEAN, the ACD lends Thaksin a broader
platform
that stresses Thailand’s geographical advantages.
Second, they will help to create a
platform
for exchanging information across borders, so that customs officials can monitor international trade flows and identify new products that should be interdicted.
An Economic
Platform
for US DemocratsCAMBRIDGE – When American voters head to the polls for congressional midterm elections in November, their choices seem likely to be guided more by “pocketbook issues” than by foreign affairs or President Donald Trump’s scandals.
If the Democrats hope to retake control of the House of Representatives, they will need a
platform
that addresses voters’ economic concerns – particularly the concerns of many voters who elected Trump in the first place.
The fourth plank of an effective economic
platform
is financial regulation, which Republicans are weakening at a particularly bad moment: the peak of the financial and business cycles.
No economic
platform
would be complete without trade.
The seventh component of a comprehensive economic
platform
for Democrats focuses directly on improving the lot of those who have lost out as a result of technological change and other forces, rather than just those who have lost their jobs as a result of trade, as is the case with Trade Adjustment Assistance.
The Maoists ran on an anti-royalist platform, and it is widely anticipated that the first meeting of the Assembly will abolish the monarchy and declare Nepal a “people’s republic.”
Muhammadu Buhari, a retired general who challenged Obasanjo for the presidency in 2003 and lost, has said that he will try again in 2007 on the
platform
of the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP), the second largest party.
The party leadership has presented a new platform, to be officially endorsed later this year, that formally redefines the party’s position as “pro-integration,” as opposed to pro-migration.
While the
platform
does refer to the country’s “humanitarian responsibilities,” it also demands “functioning protection” of the EU’s external borders.
But the confused outcome of Italy’s recent parliamentary election, with an upper house dominated by a party that campaigned on an anti-EU
platform
and a pro-European majority in the Chamber of Deputies, has revived the fundamental debate about the purpose of European integration.
So it is encouraging that the BoE is experimenting with a
platform
that enables a wider variety of views to be heard: a blog called Bank Underground (a reference to the Tube station beneath the Bank’s headquarters) that publishes posts by junior staff challenging – or supporting – prevailing policy.
And it remains the best
platform
for quickly and effectively raising money to address pressing global needs.
BanQu is an organization using blockchain encryption to support an “economic identity platform” – a universal, borderless virtual identity card that could keep track of vital information for all 21.3 million refugees, including accounts of skills training, employment and education history, lists of past financial transactions, and health records.
The fate of LiveJournal – the most influential blogging
platform
in Russia, which is often used to express dissent and protest against the government – is one unfortunate example.
This would provide a
platform
to re-establish trade, transport, and other links among former Soviet countries and thus capture regional markets for Russian products, guarantee Russian jobs, and re-assert Russian political influence in its old neighborhood.
Like a supermarket chain, Uber depends on economies of scale to allow its
platform
to work efficiently.
And, like any platform, Uber started small, covering its fixed costs through step-by-step expansion.
Thus, Uber could test its new business model – based at the time on providing luxury cars – and grow, first in San Francisco and then in other US cities, eventually expanding to other countries (as well as using its
platform
to push into other services).
Because Uber’s app mimics taxi services, it would have been outlawed;Uber would never have been able even to start developing its
platform.
New entrants could still change the competitive structure of mature
platform
markets – not just taxis, but tourism, consumer credit, and many other services.
And if an outcome-based regulation is adopted, innovative entrants may well influence the competitive structure of other
platform
markets that remain underdeveloped, such as health care, real estate, and professional services.
Earlier this month on Singles’ Day, an annual festival of youth-oriented consumption that has become the single largest shopping event in the world, China’s leading online payment platform, Alipay, processed up to 256,000 payments per second, using a robust cloud computing architecture.
There is also impressive scope for expanding financial services – from credit assessments to asset management and insurance – on the Alipay platform, and its expansion into other Asian countries via partnerships is well underway.
What is lacking is a political
platform
on which Europe’s necessary growth conversation could take shape.
Once an innovative firm establishes
platform
dominance, size becomes an advantage.
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