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Just a year ago, the United States had five major freestanding investment banks that stood atop its mighty financial sector.
The idea is that the US government will serve as buyer of last resort for the junk debt that the private sector has not been able to price.
And the US financial sector, in greasing the wheels of the real economy, has been soaking up an astounding 30% of corporate profits and 10% of wages.
Isn’t it possible, then, that rather than causing a Great Depression, significant shrinkage of the financial sector, particularly if facilitated by an improved regulatory structure, might actually enhance efficiency and growth?
The government may also need to consider injecting funds more directly into the mortgage sector while the private sector reconstitutes itself.
But there is a significant risk that this latest step, however grand, might end up doing more for profits and bonuses in the financial sector than for the rest of the economy.
Once the agricultural sector of the USSR was collectivized, the hunger began.
Europe’s banking sector is already weaker than it looks, since there is an uncompetitive portion of banks that needs to be merged or closed.
The combination of a banking sector squeeze with a paralyzed or ineffective lender of last resort is a potentially very dangerous combination.
The Bundesbank’s monetary rigor will be just one voice among many in the monetary union; other voices will press for monetary expansion and a weakening currency in midst of continuing frustrations with unemployment, and new frustrations with financial sector crisis.
Africa’s agricultural sector has come a long way since 2010, when Annan chaired the first AGRF meeting, in Accra.
Finally, everyone involved in strengthening Africa’s agricultural sector – from donors to farmers – must never forget the transformative power of partnerships.
Developing a vibrant service sector is also crucial.
While little investment is needed to upgrade the service sector, dismantling excessive regulations will require strong political will.
Women comprise half of the agriculture sector’s workforce, growing, selling, buying, and preparing food for their families.
Supporting inclusive political dialogue and ensuring that conflict is resolved through peaceful means are the highest priorities, as are security, access to justice, and a dynamic private sector that generates sufficient job opportunities.
If we in the cocoa sector handle the current challenge well, we can help forge a way forward for more sustainable sourcing of other agricultural products.
Spanish banks are similarly exposed to the property sector and have not yet acknowledged their losses, while Europe, much like Japan 20 years ago, has done too little to strengthen its financial system.
In many cases, the private sector took the initiative.
Minimum wage standards endorsed by the International Labor Organization (ILO), and adopted by many industries around the world, remain either unenforced in the agriculture sector or do not extend to informal farm workers.
The IMF concluded that “a wider dispersion of credit risk has derisked the financial sector.”
As it stands, while the services sector accounts for more than 70% of employment in South Korea, its productivity-growth rate remains much lower than that of the manufacturing sector.
These carried out applied R&D that, in capitalist systems, is mostly done by the private sector.
The collapse of world oil and gas prices has wounded Russia’s budget, and lack of investment in the country’s energy sector over the years is now causing the declining production that economists have long predicted.
Chinese President Xi Jinping seems eager to ease tensions, exemplified by his recent pledge to lower tariffs on imported American cars “significantly” and further open China’s financial-services sector.
The good news is that many factors work in France’s favor, including diverse geography, a vibrant science and technology sector, a rich culture, and vast human capital.
A robust business sector is decisive in an open economy, as it shapes a country’s ability to preserve – and improve – its citizens’ living standards.
The “law on growth and activity” that will be voted on this year will unleash the business sector’s energy, including by stimulating competition.
This objective underlies our “simplification schemes” for negotiation and consultation in the business sector.
This situation will be aggravated by some of the dangers associated with a global economy led by the financial sector.
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