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South Africa has the know-how to meet Africa’s burgeoning need for a wide range of services, from banking and insurance to retail and transport.
As if on cue, the US retail giant Target was hacked – another episode in a long string of major financial-data heists.
Harnessing this technology to expand financial inclusion would be economically empowering, particularly for smallholder farmers and merchants in rural communities, who could use their mobile phones to access market-price data, transfer cash, make retail purchases, deposit income, and pay bills – all while tending their fields or shops.
They specialize in food preparation, retail, construction, repairs, Internet cafes, and myriad other activities that can be carried out at home and sold to neighbors (often through a window facing the street).
But consolidation in the retail industry, driven in part by Walmart and Amazon, dealt a deathblow to many of these companies.
Too many people are working in traditional, low-productivity service industries, such as wholesale, retail trade, and restaurants, leaving modern, high-productivity services like communications, health, financial intermediation, and business services underdeveloped.
A house is an object; a habitat is a node in a multiplicity of overlapping networks – physical (power, water and sanitation, roads), economic (urban transport, labor markets, distribution and retail, entertainment) and social (education, health, security, family, friends).
And it also now accounts for 30% of global auto sales (and 43% of unit sales of electric vehicles) and 42% of global retail e-commerce transaction value.
But it was clearly at odds with the massive technical changes sweeping across the retail sector, and eventually the communications industry, which soon produced Fedex, faxes, mobile phones, and the Internet.
And if governments ever make it illegal to use coins in retail stores and banks, their value must ultimately collapse.
US Treasury Direct, for example, already offers retail customers an extremely low-cost way to hold very short-term Treasury debt for amounts as little as $100, tradable to others in the system.
In wholesale and retail distribution, but also in financial services and in other advanced service sectors, productivity was roughly constant in Europe, while it was growing at 4-5% a year on average in the US.
As the EU has evolved and expanded, food systems have become more complex, involving production, processing, supply-chain organization, and wholesale and retail distribution, with all of these involving new issues like health and the environment.
Beyond retail savers, banks that are holding cash in excess of required reserves have no choice but to accept the negative interest rates that central banks impose; indeed, they could not hold, manage, and transfer those excess reserves if they were held as cash, rather than in a negative-yielding account with the central bank.
A less intrusive approach to influencing food choices might be to institute a retail tax on all processed foods – not just sugary drinks – and an offsetting subsidy on non-processed foods.
In the private sector, retail giants such as Walmart, Nestle, and Tesco have joined the Consumer Goods Forum, a cooperative climate initiative, and agreed to phase out products with HFCs.
According to a study – cited in the World Bank report – by MIT’s Tavneet Suri and Georgetown University’s William Jack, mobile accounts have enabled 185,000 Kenyan women to leave farming and start more remunerative small businesses and retail activities.
Inefficiency in agriculture, retail, and government are legendary.
The online marketplaces built by Amazon and Alibaba, for example, have reshaped the retail landscape, partly by changing the local nature of retail markets.
Services are in many respects the infrastructure of a consumer society – in China’s case, providing the basic utilities, communications, retail outlets, health care, and finance that its emerging middle class is increasingly demanding.
The European Commission’s economic index is plummeting, purchasing managers indices are down and so are German retail sales.
The Euro and European PricesAmong the hoped-for effects of the Euro's physical arrival are an increased transparency of the differences in retail prices between different EMU countries, and a subsequent pressure to equalize these prices.
Start with the evidence on retail prices.
retail prices.
The critical point here is that a retail price includes not only the price of the goods but also distribution costs - wages of shop personnel, rent, advertising, profit margins, etc.
Yet wages are vastly different and hence we expect lower retail prices in poorer cities and countries than in richer ones.
It will arise from Brussels, the spread of web-based buying habits, and the emergence of EU-wide retail distribution.
Today, indicators of this global slowdown are to be found everywhere – from underwhelming retail and trade data to unanticipated policy responses, including China’s surprise currency devaluation (which coincides with its leaders’ commitment to a long-term shift toward a more market-based exchange-rate regime).
For all the attention that India’s retail revolution, information technology prowess, and booming manufacturing sectors have garnered in recent years, agriculture, on which 70% of the population still directly depends, is in crisis.
It is ultimately funded through retail bank deposits, banks’ wealth-management products, and private equity.
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