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A prolonged and sustained central bank policy of purchasing ever-increasing quantities of long-term assets is essential to encourage a wary financial sector to use some of its risk-bearing capacity for its proper purpose: reducing the risk burden on entrepreneurship and enterprise.
Indeed, balance-sheet repair takes time, especially in the household sector, and produces an unavoidable drag on growth.
The instability in the lending sector is always there, and the crisis manifests itself only if some precipitating factor triggers it.
For the first time in the parliament’s history, its members acknowledged the private sector as a key partner in wealth creation in the developing world.
She has promised that the European Commission will invest more than €2 billion ($2.27 billion) to support the private sector in the developing world by 2020.
Potential for public-private partnerships exist in energy and telecommunications projects, in wells and irrigation, in the construction sector, in infrastructure such as roads, airports, and harbors, and in processing plants for agro industries, meat, fruit, and vegetables.
To build trust, EU-level forums should be created, in which the private sector, NGOs, think tanks, and governments can discuss development opportunities.
When post-Soviet Russia opened itself to trade, its industrial enterprises lagged far behind cutting-edge technologies, especially in the dynamic information and communications technology (ICT) sector.
The result today is a thriving agricultural sector, which is growing at more than 5% a year, and hunger levels that fell by 75% from 1990-2004.
The government monitors what the private sector pays for a wide range of skills, positions, and tasks, and it attempts to maintain public employees’ salaries at no less than 75% of that level.
Singapore’s public sector has the third most developed electronic presence in the world, after South Korea and Australia, according to a report by the United Nations.
Of course, all seducers of the masses, potential tyrants or fanatics, have used this argument to make their case; the communists did the same when they declared themselves the most enlightened sector of the population and, by virtue of this alleged enlightenment, arrogated to themselves the right to rule arbitrarily.
In recent years, tight monetary policy and increasingly strict controls on the real-estate sector have caused the growth rate of fixed-asset investment to fall, from more than 25% annually before 2008 to around 20% today.
This means allowing the economy to continue to slow, while maintaining relatively tight macroeconomic policies that force local governments and the business sector to find new sources of growth.
These parties’ economic programs are by and large pro-market, emphasizing the private sector’s role in driving growth and the need to attract foreign capital.
Both in Tunisia and Egypt, for example, Islamist politicians have given assurances that the economically critical tourism sector will not be hindered by restrictions related to Islamic law.
Initial research efforts will focus on increasing the country’s tax collection, improving its education system, and boosting its renewable-energy sector.
The region’s private sector is also participating actively in sustainable development efforts.
Others are exposed to risks stemming from concentration in a single business sector, commodity, and/or geographic area.
Cooperatives have also wrestled with questions of members’ entry and exit, financial disclosure, and relationships with the non-cooperative sector.
Similarly, Mexico’s National Savings and Financial Services Bank has helped to strengthen savings and credit institutions that serve millions of rural residents who would otherwise have been relegated to the margins of the formal financial sector.
The retail sector is a huge source of inefficiency that effectively places a massive tax on India’s poor by driving up prices.
But the EU banking union remains incomplete, Greece and the Italian banking sector are facing challenges, and the aftershocks of the euro crisis could still undermine the EU’s stability – or even threaten the common currency.
If China’s regulators issue the right licenses, the financial sector will play a key role in nurturing and sustaining the consumer society of tomorrow.
Technological catch-up is more difficult in the services sector, which now accounts for a larger share of total value-added.
In work with Bruce Greenwald of Columbia University, we demonstrated that within a market economy there exist interventions in the market on the part of government that can make everyone better off - even when government is faced with the same information imperfections as the private sector.
Finally, the monopolistic domestic energy sector must be regulated in fact, not just on paper.
South Africa has a highly developed insurance sector, with a long history of creating products for every demographic and income level.
In the last couple of decades, the country has made great strides in export-led growth, supported by a growing industrial sector and large investments from China.
Spending is temporarily reduced and taxes raised, but the long-run structural deficit remains, a pattern now repeated in many state capitals and the primary reason for the current political turmoil over budgets and public sector unions.
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