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After all, real resource prices have reached record levels and, on average, the oil intensity of GDP in Spain, Greece, and Portugal is 60% higher than the European average.
The elimination of IUU fishing would also allow our overfished stocks to recover and help build a prosperous Somali domestic fishery, along with increased government support and funding for data collection and resource management.
Indeed, there is a striking parallel between the problems caused by aid inflows and the “natural resource curse” (or “Dutch disease” as it is termed in Western countries), whereby inflows into one economic sector – typically oil or minerals – drive up economy-wide prices (including the exchange rate), rendering other sectors uncompetitive.
And the recently initiated agenda to continue efforts beyond 2015, with a greater focus on environmental sustainability and resource constraints, should be pursued with the same vigor.
In some cases, this will harm free trade, and governments should be careful to avoid measures that distort resource allocation.
In recent years, China’s government alone has invested billions of dollars in African infrastructure and resource extraction, raising suspicions that a new scramble for Africa is underway.
But political control of the economy generally becomes problematic, because those running the state do not have social welfare or optimal resource allocation in mind.
Given that a non-renewable resource forms the basis of many plastic products – most of which will not last long – current plastics usage patterns are not sustainable.
Debates about mining and the environment are often framed in terms of a “nexus” between extraction of a resource and the introduction of other resources into the extraction process.
For decision-makers, understanding this linkage is critical to effective resource and land-use management.
Navigating the mining industry’s resource nexus will require new governance models that can balance extraction practices with emerging energy needs – like those envisioned by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Integrated assessments of subsoil assets, groundwater, and biosphere integrity would also help, as would guidelines for sustainable resource consumption.
But this “greening” is the result of hard work, innovation, and a complex understanding of the resource nexus.
Beyond Homo EconomicusLEIPZIG – Humanity currently faces numerous global challenges, including climate change, resource depletion, financial crisis, deficient education, widespread poverty, and food insecurity.
Short- and long-term mental-training studies (such as the ReSource project) reveal that mental-training programs can enhance cognitive and socio-affective faculties like attention, compassion, and empathy.
Indeed, the IMF’s outstanding general resource account (GRA) credits to middle-income developing countries fell by an unprecedented 91% from 2002 to 2007, as richer developing countries gained access to sources of financing that were free of the Fund’s conditionality.
They understand what it means to face severe – and, to some extent, insurmountable – resource constraints.
True energy security is possible only in the context of resource, climate, and environmental sustainability.
The global focus solely on carbon reduction not only obscures these critical linkages, but also encourages measures that adversely impact resource stability.
As a result, commodity resource constraints that we once expected to face in the middle of the twenty-first century are hitting us today.
For a variety of reasons, mostly related to government intervention, few emerging market economies can be categorized as having flexible resource demand, so commodity price spikes are not having a particularly big effect on demand.
With the world’s fastest-growing economies, fastest-rising military expenditures, fiercest resource competition, and most serious hot spots, Asia obviously holds the key to the future global order.
But they argue that because horns are a renewable resource – they grow back when trimmed, albeit slowly – what South Africa actually needs are incentives to encourage responsible breeding and conservation.
We still do not know how the court’s decision will affect demand for a resource that is prized throughout Asia for its medicinal value.
This effect – which is not sufficiently limited by existing World Trade Organization rules – undermines efficient resource allocation and hurts not only workers in countries outside an FTA, but also, in many cases, low-income households within it.
After all, though the Internet is a complex, fast-evolving, and all-encompassing global resource, it has not been around for very long.
Traffic congestion, in particular, is not only environmentally detrimental; it also imposes substantial time and resource costs on drivers.
The state’s continued dependence on resource revenues has entrenched corruption, sustained autocracy, and encouraged foreign-policy adventurism as a substitute for broad-based material prosperity.
Readers learned of alternative approaches to forecasting inflation, of the prevailing low level of inflation expectations, and of the diminished pressure that resource slack places on costs (or a less reliable Phillips’ curve).
Fortunately, Fed officials are aware of the role of resource slack in driving inflation, with the January minutes noting that “estimates of the strength of those effects had diminished noticeably in recent years.”
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