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According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, tropical deforestation is responsible for three billion tons of additional atmospheric CO2 annually – more than the world’s entire transportation sector.
If investors understand that online distribution is revolutionizing the retail sector, isolating the sector’s CEOs from financial markets would just push more resources into a deteriorating, shrinking business model.
The right policies – stronger social safety nets, progressive taxation, and better regulation (especially of the financial sector), to name a few – can reverse these devastating trends.
And while there is a growing “tech for good” sector in Europe, it will succeed only if it is supported by up-to-date infrastructure, which generally requires public outlays.
Nevertheless, up to now, Russia’s government and private sector have weathered the storm reasonably well.
Beyond making the banking sector more robust, such an initiative would boost job creation per dollar in bank credit.
Decisive steps to safeguard the banking sector’s health are necessary not only to reduce some of the risks that are preoccupying markets, but also because healthy financial institutions are vital for economic growth.
It is needed to lay the foundations to help stimulate private sector growth.
With its huge state enterprise sector and pervasive restrictions on just about anything, China has only one option: radical transformation of its economy.
TRC shows what governments, charities, and the private sector can accomplish through creative collaboration.
Only if the agricultural sector’s fundamental inadequacies are addressed can the region truly escape famine’s blight.
The continent’s agricultural sector is further hindered by low skills, a dearth of innovation, weak infrastructure, little funding, and lack of access to land, land titles, and lender security.
In fact, it is only the first step on the road to a booming agricultural export sector for Africa.
The second issue is reform, with the financial sector a high priority.
First, it means shifting demand back to the private sector when it is strong enough to carry the load.
The fact is that, given the liquidity crunch, oligopolistic product markets, and a small export sector, any further austerity will simply drive Greece deeper into recession.
Revenue from natural-resource exports represented 25% of total income in the public sector in 2008.
When we are faced with conflicting choices – burden-sharing through taxation, the organization of the public sector, the status of public employees, etc. – the member states are considered to be the only bodies entitled to decide.
Because the governments of oil-producing countries used revenues to provide for most of their people’s needs – including jobs, services, and favors – these governments fostered a culture of dependency, rather than encouraging self-reliance and entrepreneurship to expand the private sector.
Regulators now suppose that the European banking sector is resilient to adverse shocks.
And, of course, Mexico’s competitive exchange rate is a key reason why it has become an export powerhouse, with the manufacturing sector accounting for 80% of merchandise exports.
Clicks over Bricks in IndiaSINGAPORE – After years of debate, India’s government recently announced that will open the country’s retail sector to foreign investment.
The move was met with howls of protest from those who argue that the entry of large hypermarket chains like Carrefour and Walmart will devastate the small shops that currently dominate India’s retail sector.
The debate around opening the retail sector to foreign investment is currently being framed, on the one hand, by the need to modernize supply chains and, on the other hand, by the desire to protect small shopkeepers’ livelihoods.
Of course, hypermarkets will do well in a few locations, but they are unlikely ever to dominate India’s retail sector.
Moreover, China’s banking system remains the primary channel for the deployment of the household sector’s savings, meaning that those savings fund corporate investment through bank lending, rather than equity financing (which accounts for only about 5% of net investment).
By any standard, China’s household sector has very low leverage, with a debt-to-deposit ratio of 47.6%.
Even the corporate sector’s leverage is not as high as many reports suggest.
This is most true in high-tech industries, the sector in which the Middle East lags the most.
In Asia in the late 1990’s, measures aimed at the financial sector dominated IMF-imposed structural adjustment programs, but there were also programs that focused on tax and expenditure reforms, corporate governance, privatization, and business-debt restructuring.
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