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Interestingly, much of the positive impact resulted from three relatively modest projects in the building sector.
Indeed, with state companies now producing one-third of Russia’s oil, output growth has plummeted, as owners of private enterprises – the source of dynamism in the sector – are now afraid to invest in new capacity.
But, over the past fifty years, when many other countries, including France and Italy, implemented draconian controls, the result was always the same: eventually, the private sector adapted and eroded the controls’ effectiveness.
Means-testing can be very difficult in an environment where jobs are concentrated in the informal sector, primarily in self-employment, without any formal account-keeping or income data.
The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy in Delhi estimates that every year the Indian government doles out significantly more than that in implicit or explicit subsidies to better-off sections of the population, not to mention tax exemptions to the corporate sector.
But, in developing countries, workers in the dominant informal sector are already excluded from social-insurance programs.
The SED meeting next week in Beijing will focus on five areas: integrity of trade and product safety; balanced economic development, including financial sector reform; energy efficiency and security; environmental sustainability; and bilateral investment.
Foreign participation in the financial sector brings expertise needed to provide more efficient savings instruments, risk management, and allocation of capital.
From this perspective, there is good reason for optimism, especially given accelerated growth in China’s services sector – one of the key building blocks of a consumer-led rebalancing.
In the first half of 2013, services output (the tertiary sector) expanded by 8.3% year on year – markedly faster than the combined 7.6% growth of manufacturing and construction (the secondary sector).
And, third, growth in the embryonic services sector, which currently accounts for just 43% of the country’s GDP, broadens China’s economic base, creating a significant opportunity to reduce income inequality.
The Convention on Migratory Species, for example, has a track record of working with countries – as well as international organizations, NGOs, media, and the private sector – to spur coordinated action that meets international standards.
In Japan, private banks were “guided” toward the tradable sector.
If ongoing urbanization can be coupled with job creation – a distinct possibility in light of China’s emphasis on developing its embryonic labor-intensive services sector – the outlook for household-income growth is quite encouraging.
Most importantly, it is not clear that the bailout will actually impose any net costs on US taxpayers, since it may prevent further systemic effects that bring down the financial sector and, with it, the world economy.
Government, the private sector, and civil society all have a role to play in strengthening social capital.
The private sector's role in decision-making, too, often needs to be clarified--where businesses have too much influence over government, their need to operate profitable may lead to policies that favor the few over the many.
The private sector and civil society are, of course, increasingly important partners for governments.
The world cannot wait until 2020 to find the necessary resolve: while international negotiations drag on and the momentum that has been generated in the private sector is in danger of dissipating, global warming is progressing.
MDBs should work expeditiously with the private sector to expand greatly the scale of such new mechanisms, and their capital should be increased if they demonstrate success.
There were a few naysayers, but not many in the financial sector itself.
He argued that vast amounts of foreign capital flowed through US banks to the housing sector because international investors appreciated “the depth and sophistication of the country’s financial markets (which among other things have allowed households easy access to housing wealth).”
Given that older long-term unemployed workers are unlikely to find another job in the private sector, we believe it is well worth the limited expense to upgrade them from unemployed to active workers.
At the sector level, businesses providing consumer goods to the growing middle class in emerging markets have become more attractive to global investors, while capital-intensive and cyclical businesses have lost their luster.
Right now, sentiment is decidedly bearish, reflecting concerns about slowing growth, excessive buildup of local-government debt, and possible defaults in the shadow banking sector.
Yet it is crucial to “bending” the sector’s cost curve, because it enables the delivery of quality health care in cost-effective ways.
The European Investment Bank would be a good vehicle – in addition to new project bonds – to boost spending on major infrastructure projects (for example, in the energy sector).
That means economic diversification, which can be achieved only by reducing the size of government and removing the obstacles that stymie the private sector.
Instead of government spending crowding out the private sector, there could be development spending to “crowd in” the private sector.
But developing their financial markets would allow the private sector to tap the GCC’s plentiful financial resources invested outside the Gulf.
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