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An oil rush is underway in the continent, because all developed countries' national security depends on a steady oil supply, and sub-Saharan Africa owns 8% of the world's known reserves.
Therefore, since a fall in the value of the dollar raises import prices, and thus functions as a negative shock to the supply side of the economy, the Fed will have to raise, not lower, interest rates, and sell, not buy, bonds.
Of course, with an augmented supply of euros, China can be expected to make substantial investments in Europe, which also is a good thing, especially since, in the United States at least, China has demonstrated a preference for investments in financial institutions rocked by the sub-prime crisis.
Finally, the Commission "underestimated" competitors' ability to react to "any attempted restriction of capacity," either by increasing supply or by entering "the relevant market quickly."
In the meantime, the Fed should certainly not take the lead in raising interest rates when there is no evidence of excess supply in savings vehicles.
But if the land on which the desired houses and apartments sit is in limited supply, the inevitable consequence is rising prices.
Rather than jumping out to the coasts – 80% of all Americans live within 80 kilometers of the Pacific or Atlantic oceans – Wal-Marts have spread organically through an ever-expanding supply chain.
Even though each new store takes away business from Wal-Mart stores established nearby, ever-improving supply efficiencies help maintain the chain’s overall growth.
Similar advances in wholesaling supply chains account for another 25%!
These measures will need to be revisited both to increase the supply of labor and to make public finances more sustainable.
Last year, the United Nations World Water Development Report once again highlighted how the growing gap between supply and demand could create conflict.
These countries’ central bankers then expand the domestic money supply and lower their interest rates, overheating their economies.
But this overlooks the fact that risk-bearing capacity has a demand side as well as a supply side.
Contrary to the claims of food-biotech critics, who insist that genetically modified crops pose risks (none of which has actually occurred) of new allergens or toxins in the food supply, such products offer the food industry a proven and practical means of tackling the fungal contamination at its source.
A groundbreaking study of the political economy of agricultural biotechnology concluded that over-regulation causes “delays in the global diffusion of proven technologies, resulting in a lower rate of growth in the global food supply and higher food prices.”
Moreover, Russian gas represents only 6-7% of the EU’s total primary energy supply.
An early warning system on potential supply cuts has also been agreed between Russia and the EU.
Yet anxiety remains high in the countries most exposed to new supply cuts.
For power supply, Stern’s estimate that the cost of going green will be very small has proved too pessimistic – the cost will actually be negative.
It requires that aid to poor countries be sustained; that governments focus on expansionary macroeconomic policies that support employment and broad-based economic activities; that new schemes be introduced to extend health services and social protection for the poor; and that investments in education, water supply, sanitation, agriculture, and food security receive the support they need.
A producer in Indonesia, Malaysia, or the Philippines can easily take advantage of the local currency’s depreciation to sell more electronic components to an assembly plant in China with which it has a long-standing and well-developed supply relationship.
Foreign economists and aid agencies can supply some of the ingredients, but only the country itself can provide the recipe.
The bedrock of this system are civil liberties, property rights, secure contracts, courts empowered to uphold the rule of law, local banks linked with local entrepreneurs, financial firms that supply venture capital, ease of market entry by new companies, and so forth.
The city’s position on an important border crossing and access to an enormous fresh-water supply from the Great Lakes, not to mention the business community’s unrelenting support, enhance its prospects further.
This, of course, does not mean that Asia is, or is becoming, a single market, but rather that is now something of a tight-knit pan-national supply chain.
The Swedish Defense Research Agency has reported that out of 55 deliberate gas supply interruptions, explicit threats, or coercive price actions by Russia since 1991, only 11 had nothing to do with politics.
Thanks to this financial assistance, one-sixth of the world’s corn supply is burned in American cars.
Inefficient, uncompetitive solar technology sitting on rooftops in a fairly cloudy country, delivering a trivial 0.1% of Germany’s total energy supply, and postponing the effects of global warming by seven hours in 2100.
This is not to deny that the supply of fresh water is getting tight.
The supply of water is also highly variable across regions and within countries, with floods and droughts occurring at irregular times.
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