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Moravcsik argues that the pessimistic prognosis is based on a nineteenth-century realist view in which “power is linked to the relative share of aggregate global
resources
and countries are engaged in constant zero-sum rivalry.”
But recycling entails the use of even more
resources.
The Chinese government’s 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) reflected its commitment to market allocation of
resources
and lowering the costs of doing business.
We do not exhaust our
resources
on weapons.
And without the
resources
to adapt, they will continue to suffer.
Twenty-first century technologies will offer environmentally benign lifestyles and the
resources
to ease the plight and enhance the life chances of the world’s two billion poorest people.
New technology will determine our lifestyle, and the demands that we make on energy and environmental
resources.
And above all, the ownership and governance of key assets and
resources
are almost all in state hands.
For instance, while it is recognized that almost all countries need to undertake stimulus measures (we’re all Keynesians now), many developing countries do not have the
resources
to do so.
In today’s China, the overwhelming majority of bureaucrats like the status quo and have enough
resources
to protect themselves.
Even if these cultural, political, and geographic hurdles can be cleared, wealthier countries will need to commit far more
resources
to educating girls in developing economies than they have in the past.
Providing Web-based services to students and educators enables access to information and makes it possible for everyone – regardless of financial resources, location, or influence – to become educated.
The substantial new official
resources
of the IMF and ESM – and ECB liquidity – could then be used to ring-fence these countries, and banks elsewhere in the eurozone’s troubled periphery.
But weaker oversight by the World Bank would leave loan recipients to monitor and enforce environmental and social standards themselves – regardless of their
resources
or political will to do so –thus jeopardizing efforts to defend the rights of indigenous peoples, resettle displaced people, mitigate environmental damage, or protect forests and biodiversity.
For example, powerful groups and transnational corporations (such as the World Economic Forum, General Electric, and Rio Tinto) are gaining influence within the G-20, the G-7, and the BRICS, whose members compete among themselves for access to
resources
and markets.
Even so, major energy companies are preparing for the inevitable development of the Arctic’s rich resources, which means that working together to manage oil spills will be essential.
They must be pressed to see more than the opportunity for strategic access to energy and other natural
resources.
Research by one of us (Levy) shows that informal firms have absorbed a growing share of the economy’s
resources.
In the end, the effects of efficiency-minded reforms have been offset by factors – social insurance policies and market imperfections – that systematically channel too many
resources
to informal firms and create obstacles to formal firms.
Countries putting money on the barrelhead want assurances that their
resources
will not be used frivolously, and they want to know that they will be repaid.
But such efforts have so far focused on “hardware” modernization – allocating
resources
for the procurement and acquisition of selected advanced weapons technologies, systems, and platforms, and integrating them into existing organizational force structures and operational concepts.
Asia’s Resource ScrambleNEW DELHI – Competition for strategic natural
resources
– including water, mineral ores, and fossil fuels – has always played a significant role in shaping the terms of the international economic and political order.
Asia is the world’s most resource-poor continent, and overexploitation of the natural
resources
that it does possess has created an environmental crisis that is contributing to regional climate change.
The intensifying competition over natural
resources
among Asian countries is shaping resource geopolitics, including the construction of oil and gas pipelines.
Given the significant role that natural
resources
have historically played in global strategic relations – including driving armed interventions and full-scale wars – increasingly murky resource geopolitics threatens to exacerbate existing tensions among Asian countries.
While strategic competition for
resources
will continue to shape Asia’s security dynamics, the associated risks can be moderated if Asia’s leaders establish norms and institutions aimed at building rule-based cooperation.
As the late MIT economist Rudi Dornbusch pointed out, it makes more sense for residents of poor countries to invest their
resources
at home in ways that raise productivity and living standards, rather than buying US Treasury bills.
For a while, the US tried to question Brazil’s ownership by trying to force a discussion of the “internationalization” of the oceans and their mineral
resources.
It is planning to create a fund, backed 70% by Brazilian financial resources, that will be dedicated to projects such as rehabilitating roads in Uruguay and Paraguay in order to enhance its neighbors’ capacities and correct economic imbalances.
An additional benefit of dispersing these productive
resources
will be greater interaction with Brazil’s South American partners.
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