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To grasp this opportunity, we should first acknowledge that too many ideas emanating from the nonprofit sector are stillborn or unfeasible, often for lack of finance.
This strategy will create a virtuous cycle whereby initial innovations spur further innovations across the education sector.
In the past two decades, Mozambique has become a functioning democracy; grown its agriculture sector; raised literacy rates; increased water supply and electricity in rural areas; and reduced child mortality dramatically, from 219 per 1,000 live births in 1990, two years before the civil war ended, to 135 per 1,000 in 2010.
It also built what became the Internet – and then sensibly left most of the development and day-to-day operations to the private sector.
Not surprisingly, employment has boomed in India’s IT-enabled offshore services sector, soaring from 106,000 in March 2002 to 171,500 a year later.
The service sector makes up 79% of Britain’s GDP, and accounts for some 80% of employment in the UK economy, compared to just 10% for manufacturing.
If Britain loses its access to the EU single market for services, the competitiveness of its largest sector – along with 80% of UK jobs – will be at risk.
In the case of China, a key part of its 12th five-year plan is to shift income to the household sector, where the savings rate is high but still lower than the corporate rate.
The US tradable sector is growing.
The tradable sector accounts for just 30% of the US economy (by value added), and employment growth in the tradable sector is negligible.
If employment growth in the non-tradable sector – dominated by government and health care – falters, the tradable sector will have to take up the slack.
If exports are to grow substantially, the scope of the tradable sector must expand.
Unlike the United States, where the financial sector is smaller as a share of GDP, the UK economy has still not recovered the output lost in the post-2008 Great Recession, owing to continued retrenchment in the banking sector.
But the effectiveness of a fixed exchange rate is determined by how developments in the export sector influence domestic industries and the national economy as a whole.
If growth in the trade sector boosts that of domestic non-trade sectors, then a fixed exchange rate will not put pressure on the external balance of payments as demand for imports rises.
Equally important, unlike other East Asian economies during their early take-off stages, the expansion of China’s export sector in the last decade has not been closely linked to the development of its domestic non-trade sector, because the expansion has been fueled mainly by foreign direct investment (FDI).
Most of China 460,000 foreign-owned enterprises are concentrated in manufacturing and assembling, increasing the import-intensiveness of exports and de-linking the external-trade sector from domestic industries.
In short, the isolation of the export sector from the rest of China’s economy, caused by the dominance of FDI, accounts for the illusion of an undervalued renminbi.
Yes, traditional constituencies of the right, such as the business sector, the military, and the Church, will find a somewhat more welcoming government, but a sharp rightward turn is unlikely.
The result was a vast amount of cheap liquidity that helped to stabilize the financial sector, restore stock and real-estate prices, and increase domestic demand.
In fact, the Spanish economy is a classic case of a defective growth pattern followed by a predictable, policy-assisted recovery that is driven (with a delay) mostly by the tradable sector.
The crisis struck domestic demand, and the tradable sector was incapacitated, because the rapid rise in relative unit labor costs, combined with an over-valued euro, had undermined competitiveness.
Second, both capital and labor needed to flow to the tradable sector, where demand constraints can be relaxed as relative productivity converges.
But Spanish policymakers and business leaders appeared to grasp the nature of the pre-crisis economic imbalances – and the importance of the tradable sector as a recovery engine.
If Germany’s current-account surpluses, currently running at 9% of GDP, were universalized, with every member state’s government, private sector, and households net savers, the euro would shoot through the roof, destroying most of Europe’s manufacturing.
Given the challenges implicit in establishing and maintaining a robust scientific sector, reform efforts must be undertaken carefully.
In the pharmaceutical sector – which is particularly vulnerable to IP infringement – a stronger IP regime could increase FDI inflows from $1.5 billion this year to $8.3 billion in 2020, with pharmaceutical R&D doubling to $1.3 billion over the same period.
With private investment remaining weak, owing to the corporate sector's heavy debt burden and banks' huge volume of bad assets, the government has clearly decided to jumpstart the process through infrastructure spending.
As Iran imported everything from consumer goods to industrial materials and machinery, almost every sector of its economy became increasingly dependent on foreign goods, forcing small and medium-size producers to shut down.
Economists who become policy advisors are great fans of simplicity, uniformity, and arm's-length relations between government and the private sector, not because of economic theory or empirical evidence, but because of unexamined and untested assumptions.
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