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Ugandan military officers, including members of Museveni’s family, have also been accused of looting billions of dollars’ worth of gold, diamonds, and other natural resources from Congo’s eastern provinces.
The more resources that are devoted to achieving this goal, the more effective the post-2015 development agenda will be.
The ability of large corporations to underprice natural resources also encourages excessive extraction, pollution, and environmental degradation – outcomes that they disingenuously present as the “price of development.”
Such distinctions were not merely pernicious; they were often characterized by an unequal distribution of the resources of the state within a colonial society.
The uneven development of infrastructure, as a result of priorities skewed to benefit colonialists, can lead to resources being distributed unevenly, which can lead to increasing social fissures.
But we lack new resources.
In Burundi and Sierra Leone, Liberia and Timor Leste, our resources are under strain because UN peacekeepers are helping nations turn the corner to peace.
If not matched by resources, mandates are empty.
We cannot reform this organization without the required resources.
Iran’s oil resources are not infinite, and it wants to have complete control over the civil nuclear field – a basic right as an NPT signatory.
The Idle FiremanWASHINGTON, DC – One of the IMF’s main purposes is to “give confidence to members by making [its] general resources temporarily available to them.”
However, its members are increasingly facing capital volatility, and there is a sharp decline in the use of Fund resources.
This would make emerging markets and developing country members regard reserve accumulation as expensive and extravagant, thereby helping to liberate those resources to help the world economy overcome today’s crisis.
Oil-producing developing countries should consider whether their resources have an economic future, given diminishing scope for emissions.
Even if the world rapidly decarbonizes, oil consumption will remain high enough for their resources to be worth extracting.
For example, the World Bank claims that in order to be green, we need to take into account that consuming fossil fuels will deprive future generations of those resources.
Moreover, as we have burned fossil fuels, we have simultaneously found new resources and discovered new methods, such as horizontal fracturing, which has dramatically increased the availability of natural gas while driving down its cost.
This confirms a well known fact: Europe is less efficient than the US at producing research that is conducive to innovation--either because Europe allocates fewer resources to research, or because the available resources are used less efficiently, or both.
Still, European governments typically complain about the lack of fiscal resources to support R&D (a far fetched argument given the miniscule share of research spending in the oversized European budgets) and, whenever the European Commission allows them, they subsidize innovative firms, or those that they think are more likely to invest in R&D.
It would only increase the power, prestige, and resources of entrenched lobbies of established university professors who often prevent entry and competition.
If we make provisions for long lives that are cut short, we will have wasted huge amounts of precious economic resources.
When economic activity starts up again after a deep recession, it will not be as a consequence of people having been compelled to channel financial resources into the projects selected as politically desirable, but as a result of new ideas.
If too many resources and too much brainpower are now devoted to finding slight underpricing or overpricing of stock, Clinton’s program might be a good thing, as it would help to reallocate those resources.
The result is value where before there were only unexploited resources.
Together, they represented an energetic team, convinced that if they worked hard enough, they would continue to raise resources for the hopelessly underfunded global response to AIDS, TB, and malaria.
And yet today, despite the Global Fund’s effectiveness and its strong anti-corruption track record, donors have cited “bad governance” as an excuse for withholding further committed resources.
But if foreign-aid budgets are cut, and financing mechanisms as effective and innovative as the Global Fund are starved of resources, the “1%” will have much more to worry about than the Occupy movement.
Matters were subsequently complicated by a separate conflict – this time between Muslims – over resources in the western Darfur region.
But if the SPLA ends up controlling or shutting down most of Sudan’s oil resources, the North could end up with nothing.
That said, the perceived “tax burden” in China also includes non-tax expenses, including a relatively high proportion of social insurance paid for workers, the actual cost of land, resources, and financing, as well as a variety of government surcharges.
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