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This uncertain response partly explains Western governments’ lack of will to draw tangible conclusions from the systemic failure of the financial sector.
The second key to transforming governments into engines of innovation is to shift the balance of investment toward intangibles, as in the private sector.
Across Latin America, advertising from the public sector is critical for the financial survival of newspapers and broadcast stations, but especially for local outlets.
The effect on the atmosphere is equivalent to 18% of annual CO2 emissions, more than from the world’s entire transport sector.
At the same time, we must ensure that every sector, as well as every country, does its fair share.
E-payments are a key factor in lowering business and transaction costs in China, because they improve efficiency in the retail sector, where prices can still be higher than in the US even when the products are made in China.
And, by raising the cost of extracting fossil fuels, it would contribute to the eventual phase-out of a sector that has no place in a climate-safe world.
Indian firms like Infosys and Wipro, giants in the information-technology sector, are now looking for cutting-edge services and high-grade talent as they compete for local markets such as the US.
The private sector has a critical role to play in bridging the two Mexicos.
International security cooperation, border controls, and transport sector monitoring are all important, but they don’t go far enough.
The oil sector appears to be relatively intact, and thus should contribute to government revenues relatively soon.
By contrast, other countries undergoing radical change, including Egypt and Tunisia, are more dependent on the service sector, including the always-finicky tourism industry.
Mexico, for example, opened its energy sector to foreign partnerships last year – a politically difficult reform that is likely to bring significant long-term benefits.
But, in order to take advantage of them, countries, like athletes, must put in the work needed to compete successfully – through sound domestic policies that foster a business-friendly pro-competition environment, an attractive foreign-trade regime, and a healthy financial sector.
Drawing lessons from reforms in Afghanistan and their experience in Haiti, Belt, Kashi, and Mackinnon suggest changing the power sector’s institutional and regulatory framework, corporatizing the EDH, and establishing cost-reflective tariffs.
Most people in the developing world live in the rural sector, which is why free and fair trade in agriculture matters.
Indeed, in 2012, the IMF calculated that the consolidated public sector accounted for nearly 70% of Russia’s GDP.
The consolidated public sector now accounts for one third of total employment.
Experience suggests that large public sectors are associated with sub-par growth and the crowding out of investment in the private sector.
Opening up the economy to competition and expanding the private sector would undermine the system of wealth and power that Putin’s associates enjoy.
Until recently, the Spanish authorities maintained that the problems in their country’s real-estate sector were temporary.
Other studies, however, point to other adverse side effects arising from hosting a super-sized financial sector.
For example, Stephen Cecchetti and Enisse Kharroubi of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), have argued that an excessively large financial sector damages productivity and growth.
The financial sector, which typically pays more than most others, draws scarce high-level skills away from areas of the economy in which they may contribute more to productivity.
Other studies suggest that the negative effects begin to be felt when credit to the private sector exceeds 80-100% of GDP.
And others argue that a large finance sector may bolster the exchange rate, making other exports less competitive.
The supposed impact on growth, however, assumes that some of the skilled people shed by the financial sector will move elsewhere in the economy, rather than following the finance jobs wherever they go.
There is no guarantee that this will happen, or that employment lost through finance sector moves will be compensated by growth elsewhere.
One source of China’s future political leadership could well be its growing NGO sector.
The Private Sector and the SDGsWASHINGTON, DC – Achieving the ambitious global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – which include ending poverty, improving global health, ensuring universal education, and mitigating climate change by 2030 – will cost a lot of money.
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