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The question, to which a clear answer may be impossible, is how much of these exports are for profit and how much are for survival – and thus whether strong trade performance can be sustained.
Motivated by profit and market share rather than philanthropy, Huawei is outpacing American and European rivals through lower prices, faster action, and a greater willingness to work in difficult environments.
So, by creating incompatibilities, some subtle and some obvious, that make its old software obsolete, Microsoft can sell its operating systems at high profit margins without fear that people will wait until the price drops.
The price will never drop, because Microsoft will just roll out a new system, again at high profit margins.
Value creation, profit maximization, and competitiveness must also be measured against the greater public good.
Phasing out coal during times of latent overproduction might even be done at a profit.
Yet such projects, designed for profit or at least direct cost recovery, are not even remotely sufficient to end extreme poverty.
Shorting bonds by purchasing a CDS contract carries limited risk but almost unlimited profit potential, whereas selling a CDS contract offers limited profits but practically unlimited risks.
The Microfinance CatalystCAMBRIDGE – So-called “impact investors” – providers of capital to businesses that solve social challenges while generating a profit – are the current rage in economic development.
Donors soon helped launch other microfinance institutions in Mexico, India, Peru, Indonesia, and many African countries, where they could offer loans at 25-30% interest rates – well below traditional moneylender rates of 60-100% – and still generate strong profit margins.
In concert with the development bank’s virtuous impact, credit and investment flows would flood the Greek economy’s hitherto arid realms, eventually helping the bad bank turn a profit and become “good.”
This more challenging scenario of anemic recovery undermines hopes for a V-shaped recovery, as low growth and deflationary pressures constrain earnings and profit margins, and as unemployment rates above 10% in most advanced economies cause financial shocks to re-emerge, owing to mounting losses for banks’ and financial institutions’ portfolios of loans and toxic assets.
It’s almost as if the Communist Party had turned Marx on his head, replacing religion with profit as the new “opium of the masses.”
And, indeed, trees have been cultivated for profit for millennia.
Regardless of what today's corporate profit reports and stock indices may show, a country cannot achieve inclusive, sustainable success – in economic or human terms – if these fundamental social issues are not adequately addressed.
Second, drug development is geared toward maximizing profit, not social benefit, which skews efforts directed at the creation of medicines that are essential to human welfare.
Again, China’s authoritarian politics means that it cannot profit from the innovations that depend on software, as that is an instrument through which dissent can flourish and become subversive of total control.
In fact, sugar’s allure is a big reason why the processed food industry’s current profit margin is 5% (up from 1%), and why so many of us are sick, fat, stupid, broke, depressed, and just plain miserable.
Russian entrepreneurs realized that they had to sell products that could be sold on the market at a profit.
Many are called “vulture funds” because they bought the debt at a steep discount from the original creditors, hoping to profit subsequently through court decisions.
Far from enabling security, many in the region believe that MONUSCO has emerged as a destabilizing influence – a bureaucratic behemoth, fixated on its own survival and institutionally motivated to profit from instability.
Both the profit motive and a diplomatic effort to showcase its engineering prowess drive China’s overseas dam-building efforts.
In Chile today, 53% of all children attend voucher-financed private schools (many of them until recently run for profit), despite the top-up fees they often charge.
They can be traced back to the economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit.
That encyclical also contained a second fundamental statement concerning the idea of profit.
“The Church acknowledges the legitimate role of profit as an indication that a business is functioning well.
When a firm makes a profit, this means that productive factors have been properly employed and corresponding human needs have been duly satisfied.”
The Doha Round ought to profit from some of these fundamental forces that favor open trade and impede protectionism.
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.
But, to date, many factors, including poor profit projections and political uncertainty, have limited such financing for infrastructure projects on the continent.
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