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Additional factors are low unemployment, great social standards and a growing economy in the global recession.
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Finally, what of the argument that the new global economy makes it impossible for governments to mandate social protection, such as minimum-wage laws, rules on working hours, health-and-safety standards in the workplace, and so forth.
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Rather than hindering financial returns, social enterprise offers a huge competitive advantage in the unpredictable global economy.
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America's long-term hope is that continued economic reform will raise Russian living standards, calm social strains, and root Russia more securely into a global economy where, willy-nilly, western ideas prevail.
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But it is also a social and economic good, particularly as we move from an American-centric industrial to a global-knowledge economy.
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And defying to the perception of the UK as the only key innovator for the social economy (no doubt in part due to the comparative advantage of the English language as the global transmitter of ideas, compared to French or German), continental Europe is emerging as an innovation space for the new role of government in social entrepreneurship.
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