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Now, by seizing control over water – a resource vital to millions of lives and livelihoods – China can hold another country hostage without firing a single shot.
The largest such study is the recently completed ReSource project, in which my colleagues and I subjected almost 300 people, over 11 months, to an intense mental-training program, developed by a team of experienced mediation teachers, scientists, and psychotherapists.
The secular, ethical mental-training exercises used in the ReSource project could be applied in businesses, political institutions, schools (for both teachers and students), and health-care settings – in short, in all areas where people experience high levels of stress and related phenomena.
The best that economists can offer is David Ricardo’s early nineteenth-century framework: if a country simply produces in accordance with its comparative advantage (in terms of resource endowments and workers’ skills), presto, it will gain through increased cross-border trade.
Fourth, we should prepare for a rough ride ahead, because extreme weather, resource scarcity, and price volatility have become the “new normal.”
Country-level planning and resource allocation is still the rule for most businesses operating in Africa, resulting in inefficient allocation of human and capital resources.
His most precious resource is his personal popularity, which a flavor of consent to his authoritarian regime.
As member states advance along this path, propelled forward by technological and operational excellence and innovation, they will find avenues to eliminate unnecessary spending and optimize resource use.
The Myth of a Fossil Fuel Phase-OutBRUSSELS – How the world uses energy is a hot topic for a warming planet, and fears of pollution and resource strain have produced a virtual arms race of energy-efficiency strategies.
Even the decision to redefine the market’s role in resource allocation as “decisive” was not the breakthrough that many observers have claimed.
African countries have plenty of experience with the downsides of major resource endowments.
These countries now must determine how to avoid the “resource curse” – an all-too-common affliction whereby rising resource revenues lead to volatility, rent seeking, and corruption, while spurring real exchange-rate appreciation and wage increases, thereby undermining other economic sectors’ competitiveness.
Establishing such a mechanism will not be easy, as it requires a resource that is in short supply in Europe today: trust.
Canadian and Chinese researchers are also using genomic analysis of the microbial communities living in hydrocarbon deposits to develop new bioprocesses that will make oil and gas extraction greener, by enhancing resource recovery, reducing water and energy use, and minimizing greenhouse-gas emissions.
This implies a slowdown in reforms that increase the private sector’s productivity and economic share, together with a greater economic role for state-owned enterprises (and for state-owned banks in the allocation of credit and savings), as well as resource nationalism, trade protectionism, import-substitution industrialization policies, and imposition of capital controls.
These pervasive failures appear to be due mostly to governments’ inability to align their efforts with their country’s resource base and level of development.
To assess Trump’s claim, it is important to understand that when we ask how much countries should cut their greenhouse-gas emissions, we are essentially discussing how to distribute a limited resource.
This process of labor substitution and disintermediation has been underway for some time in service sectors – think of ATMs, online banking, enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, mobile payment systems, and much more.
Certainly, more can be done to strengthen institutions and ensure sustainable resource management.
Somewhat higher inflation in the surplus countries and larger cross-border resource transfers would give the deficit countries more time, allowing for structural reforms to produce results and reducing the need for deflation.
In the coming weeks, Europe’s governments will be measured by their commitment to the preservation of this vital global resource.
The treaties mark an attempt to balance action and ambition in a context of economic crisis, fiscal consolidation, large-scale defense transformations, increasing interdependencies, and global threats – from terrorism and nuclear proliferation to climate change, resource scarcity, and epidemics – that are impossible to tackle unilaterally.
The purest illustration occurs when a dominant supplier of a natural resource, such as oil, restricts supply on world markets to drive up world prices.
The reason we seem incapable of coming together to protect the climate is known as the “tragedy of the commons”: a shared resource tends to be rapidly depleted because no single actor – whether a country or a person – considers how their actions affect other users.
In other words, because you reap all of the benefits, but suffer only part of the costs, you are tempted to over-exploit the resource.
His solution was to assign property rights to the shared resource, compensating the losers.
If conflict over valuable resources is unavoidable, as examples throughout history suggest, there is little reason for a country not to exploit a given resource to the maximum possible extent prior to the emergence of scarcities.
To the extent that countries believe that resource-based conflict is inevitable in the future, negotiations to limit resource depletion become more likely to break down in the short run.
These countries already understand that water is a renewable but finite resource.
The dramatic rise of the bottled-water industry since the 1990’s attests to the increasing commodification of the world’s most critical resource.
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