While carbon pricing and industrial policies may have enabled policymakers in the United States and Europe to avoid difficult political choices, we cannot rely on these tools to achieve crucial climate goals. Climate policies must move away from focusing on green taxes and subsidies and enter the age of politics.
explains why achieving climate goals requires a broader combination of sector-specific policy instruments.
The long-standing economic consensus that interest rates would remain low indefinitely, making debt cost-free, is no longer tenable. Even if inflation declines, soaring debt levels, deglobalization, and populist pressures will keep rates higher for the next decade than they were in the decade following the 2008 financial crisis.
thinks that policymakers and economists must reassess their beliefs in light of current market realities.
孟买—印度正在实现巨大的数字飞跃。通过建立信息技术和业务流程管理等核心数字部门获得丰厚回报,该国正在如农业,教育,能源,金融服务,医疗保健和物流等更多的领域抓住新的数字机遇。 至2025年,这些机遇将带来高达5000亿美元的经济价值。
在我们研究的17个成熟的新兴经济体中,印度的数字化进程是第二快的。诚然,印度的起点较低,仅在过去五年,互联网用户数量几乎翻了一番,达到5.6亿。
去年,印度下载了123亿个应用程序,仅次于中国,他们平均每周在社交媒体上花费17个小时,比美国还多。因此,2018年印度使用的平均数据流量比2016年中期多54倍。
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