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All this could greatly complicate managing the G-20, and risks obscuring the question that all should be addressing: how to manage a global economy in which the balance between advanced and emerging countries is shifting at great speed.
The United Kingdom is the most vocal skeptic, but Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and pretty much the rest of Eastern Europe have never been enthusiastic about shifting their focus from national prerogatives.
China will also be shifting millions of people from low-productivity agricultural areas to dozens of new cities, accompanied by ambitious plans to build 50 new airports and thousands of miles of new roads and railroads.
The public policy interests of business are not fixed, shifting according to changes in the overall economy, trends in domestic and international markets, and the actions of business leaders.
Ceding national sovereignty implies shifting the power to tax, the power to spend and the power of the budget to the European level.
Beyond an awareness of the short-term risks of competitive devaluation lies the Chinese government’s serious commitment to its longer-term goal of shifting the country’s growth model from one based on investment and exports to one driven by domestic consumption.
The deeper question raised by this proposal is whether Musharraf meant to convey a message to the US that Pakistan’s priorities were shifting.
Some of Japan’s corporate giants have already begun shifting from traditional seniority-based advancement toward merit-based pay structures.
New McKinsey Global Institute research finds that three digital forces – disintermediation (cutting out the middle man), disaggregation (separating processes into component parts), and dematerialization (shifting from physical to electronic form) – could account for (or create) 10-45% of the industry revenue pool by 2030.
The apparent answer is the government’s overriding commitment to shifting the economy away from investment- and export-led growth.
China transformed its agrarian economy by building a strong, labor-intensive industrial base, shifting workers from agriculture to manufacturing and construction, and improving productivity across all sectors.
The experts recognized that the world’s health problems are shifting away from communicable diseases toward NCDs.
Given increasing globalization of business activity; the rising importance of intangible capital that is difficult to price and easy to move (for example, patents and brands); competitive cuts in national corporate tax rates; and the spread of tax havens, income shifting and the resulting tax-base erosion have become a major policy concern throughout the OECD.
As part of comprehensive corporate tax reform that includes a revenue-neutral rate cut, the US Congress is currently considering a hybrid territorial reform and evaluating several measures to counter tax-base erosion and income shifting, including those used by other advanced countries.
If so, it would mean shifting from production of commodities to higher-value manufactured products.
But it remains unclear whether elevated asset prices are supporting aggregate demand or mainly shifting the distribution of wealth.
Labor markets have been knocked out of equilibrium as new technology and shifting global supply chains have caused demand in the labor market to change faster than supply can adjust.
It confirmed the view that the transition from communism is about much more than building markets and shifting economic responsibilities from the state to the private sector.
The US labor market is more flexible than Europe’s, enabling it to react more nimbly to the ever shifting sands of globalization.
But there is a catch: in shifting to a more consumption-led dynamic, China will reduce its surplus saving and have less left over to fund the ongoing saving deficits of countries like the US.
The Better CorporationLONDON – Around the world, the corporate governance landscape is shifting, as efforts to improve business practices and policies gain support and momentum.
The problem is not just individual “tax havens”; there is also a need to capture corporate profits that companies’ move internationally with complex devices such as “transfer pricing” and “tax-base shifting” to minimize their tax bill.
The shifting economic operating environment bolsters these opportunities.
In other words, Germany’s role in the world economy is shifting from that of a producer to that of a merchant.
Such emissions can be eliminated by either shifting to renewable forms of energy or reducing the emissions from fossil fuels.
While many people are up in arms about Facebook’s shifting privacy policies, millions of others are calmly managing their reputations online, using the tools that Facebook and other social Web sites provide.
This change, however, is also creating anxieties about shifting power relations among states.
Global power is shifting towards Asia and the Pacific.
Labor-saving technology and shifting employment patterns in the global economy’s tradable sector are important drivers of inequality.
For example, by banning new coal plants and shifting fossil-fuel subsidies toward the financing of renewable energy through feed-in tariffs, sustainable energy could be brought to billions of people worldwide, while reducing fossil-fuel dependency.
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