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In theory, bank-led resource allocation should have ensured that only viable projects were financed.
So why not protect our landscape as a resource for tourism – and even as a way of combating climate change?
Market signals are more distorted, fueling resource misallocations.
Environmentalists worry that without a more conscientious “green” component to Chinese lending, unchecked exploitation could lead to resource depletion.
The inadequate response to pressing questions of natural resource management, whether of water or trees, merely strengthens the hands of opium dealers and malcontents in what is already the most disaffected and sensitive part of Afghanistan – the clear-cut mountain slopes where intelligence officers believe Osama bin Laden is most likely holed up.
A country’s most valuable resource is its people.
By developing a joint vision for the development of international waterways, these regional cooperation initiatives work towards common ownership of the resource, thereby reducing the risk that disputes over water use will escalate into violence.
A dearth of water fuels ethnic strife, as communities begin to fear for their survival and seek to capture the resource.
This constituency could grow dramatically if democrats and economic reformers focused renewed energy on the need for honesty and fairness in government; on an enhanced social safety net financed by higher taxation of natural resource enterprises; and on further market reforms aimed at separating the economy from the grasping hands of politicians and bureaucrats.
The most encompassing view is that of the “political-economy” school, which argues that health inequalities are determined by capitalist economies’ hierarchical structure and the associated political choices about resource distribution.
It recently found a new source of wealth, natural gas, but may become yet another victim of the so-called “natural resource curse.”
Exports are yet to begin, but the threat of the resource curse is already present.
The biggest challenge for the next government is to acknowledge the risks and dangers of the resource curse, and design a new, creative model to avoid it.
Relentless efficiency gains in agriculture and resource extraction pushed down prices for commodities, especially during the 1980’s and 1990’s.
Fortunately, this does not seem likely for the moment, especially given the Chinese leadership’s sober and pragmatic approach to its resource problems.
It is a much more difficult and gradual process to increase the efficiency of resource use and the skill level of the labor force.
Moreover, while South Korea can afford to increase public spending today, raising expenditure without paying careful attention to resource allocation will eventually undermine fiscal sustainability.
Besides damaging public accounts and imposing a severe fiscal sacrifice on the country, the abnormally high level of the Selic rate (the Brazilian overnight interbank rate) inhibited the “animal spirits” of entrepreneurship, distorted resource allocation, and impeded the development of the real-estate and capital markets, while causing currency appreciation.
With the right investment, foresight, and commitment, this underappreciated resource can create jobs and deliver sustainable growth.
But, in confidential briefings, Nigeria has strongly hinted that it will not tolerate any foreign incursions on a vital and strategic resource in its own backyard.
But tech CEOs have not tweeted about restoring that resource, because, at the moment, they see no viable business model for saving trees.
One positive, and universally welcomed, step that the US could take would be finally to ratify the Law of the Sea Convention, whose principles must be the foundation for peaceful resource sharing – in the South China Sea as elsewhere.
After relying on resource rents for decades, these governments must switch not only to new growth models, but also to more representative governance.
“Ecosystem accounts” have become instrumental in determining how better to manage this resource.
These accounts are also being used to improve forest management in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, where forests are a vital resource for two major growth sectors, tourism and hydropower generation.
If a country were at war and knew that one-third of its population were certain to perish in the next ten years, its leaders would most likely declare a state of emergency and commit every resource at their command to averting that outcome.
These stronger structures should permit limited resource transfers among eurozone countries, either to carry out countercyclical policy or to supplement investment spending, particularly in economic and social infrastructure.
Confronting the growing challenge means that humanity can no longer afford to ignore the inexhaustible resource found in the organic material that the sun provides each day through photosynthesis.
The first lesson is that people – rich and poor – often make bad choices when they lack a key resource, like money or time.
More recently, human activity has undergone what is being called the Great Acceleration: the rapid intensification of resource consumption and ecological degradation.
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