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There are still huge pools of private wealth sitting on the sidelines that can be rapidly mobilized to support productive infrastructure.
The important point is that the case for expanding productive infrastructure investment does not rest on one narrow ideological viewpoint or economic theory.
Bearing in mind the differences in their productive structures, sub-Saharan Africa and India appear to be the best candidates, given that they accounted for 1.4 billion of the world’s poor in 2008 and 60% of global population growth.
Private incentives always need to be aligned with social costs and benefits if productive efficiency is to be achieved.
Indeed, between search engines and ubiquitous apps, knowledge is at our fingertips nearly always, making our lives easier and more productive.
Managing mixed economies that include state-owned enterprises and an inchoate private sector will require discipline, so that productive assets are not squandered, or privatized at fire-sale prices.
Environmental taxes could lead to better air and water quality, even as they raise substantial revenues; congestion taxes would improve quality of life in cities; property and capital-gains taxes would encourage higher investment in productive activities, promoting growth.
Such a recovery requires efforts to create jobs and enhance countries’ productive capacity – for example, through infrastructure development – thereby encouraging complementary private investments and generating the conditions necessary to sustain long-term growth.
The answer lies in honing our children’s creativity, and providing them with the analytical and communication skills needed to channel it toward productive ends.
To sustain innovation, businesses must attract and retain the most creative and productive minds.
Superficial complaints about the slow pace of SOE reforms ignore the strategic challenge of creating productive competition between SOEs and publicly listed tech giants in the digital space.
Modern, highly productive, and globally competitive Mexico has flourished under NAFTA and other rounds of market liberalization.
Productive heterogeneity, and the misallocation that goes with it, has been increasing in commerce, services, and manufacturing alike.
In the absence of productive development policies of the type used in East Asia, modern firms may have not been able to expand rapidly enough.
An additional benefit of dispersing these productive resources will be greater interaction with Brazil’s South American partners.
Europe’s Non-Rhetorical ValuesWARSAW – The debate about Europe’s future is burdened by misleading and emotionally charged rhetoric, with vague talk of “more Europe” hampering productive discussion about European countries’ real problems.
A euro spent on research in Europe is less productive than a dollar spent in the US for two reasons: incentives and the demand for technology.
There is thus a real need in the Franc Zone for a financing institution that would convert migrant remittances into productive investments, thereby generating jobs and wealth, and that would broaden access to banking services, mortgages, insurance products, pension plans, and technical assistance.
But it has also called for cooperation to resolve the situation peacefully and declared that Ukraine should pursue productive ties with both Russia and the West.
This last element is important because only the working-age population represents an economy’s productive potential.
According to African Progress Panel estimates, poor African households would save $58 a year, on average, by installing solar panels – money that they could spend on education, health, and productive investment.
Training programs should be able to impart new skills in a matter of months, not years, and they should be complemented by programs that support workers’ incomes during retraining, and that help them relocate for more productive work.
The result is that it is not uncommon for a bright, productive young professor in America to earn as much, if not more, than older and less productive colleagues.
To be truly productive, such contact should not be limited to resolving the Ukraine crisis – or to senior officials.
By contrast, Ukraine became the worst managed of all the post-Soviet states, with cronyism and corruption thwarting productive capacity, and causing the country to fall further and further behind other post-communist countries in transition.
Given these findings, the 2015 report advises national, regional, and international progressive groups to support the forces of emancipation, which hold the key to finding homegrown solutions to the challenges of ensuring better governance, more productive economies, and more resilient societies.
They are often very productive by hectare, since they maximize the use of the soil, and achieve the best complementary use of plants and animals.
Argentina has much going for it: widespread literacy, a healthy population, a highly productive agricultural economy, and a strong natural resource base.
Healthy children attend school more regularly, are better able to learn, and become more productive adults.
It is time for all of the relevant actors in the conflict between Israel and Palestine to address this challenge, and to take concrete, productive, and creative action to bring peace to Gaza at last.
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