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The problem is that when motor neurons absorb too much calcium, they can die.
To be sure, the ability to attract and absorb external financing has been an important reason for China’s accelerated industrialization, marketization, and integration into the global economy.
And, even when there is news, the world’s capacity to absorb bad and sad stories from yet another hellish place is limited.
Greater reliance on equity would give banks a much larger cushion to absorb losses.
Many officials (and the analysts and advisers who support them) assumed that this magic number represents the minimum rate needed to provide jobs to workers and managers and absorb the more than six million new graduates who spill out of China’s campuses each year in search of employment.
The third lesson is that a society’s capacity to absorb rapid change is limited.
When agriculture became mechanized, there were other labor-intensive sectors that could absorb millions of workers.
If workfare replaces welfare, wages will become more flexible enabling EU labor markets to absorb immigrants more efficiently.
To persuade wavering Asian countries to band together, rather than submit to China, Japan will have to adopt policies that demonstrate its willingness to absorb the high costs of keeping itself and its partners outside of China’s orbit.
A better approach is to steer migrants from vulnerable rural areas to nearby medium-size cities equipped with the necessary services to absorb them; this, in turn, will prevent megacities from growing unsustainably.
A failure to absorb large numbers of people into productive employment could lead to mass suffering and myriad catastrophes.
But they are unable to absorb them, owing to several factors associated with economic backwardness.
Thus, the real issue in China is not the volume of shadow credit, but its quality, and the banking system’s capacity to absorb potential losses.
But China has another motive for tightening the noose on rare-earth exports: it wants to force high-tech firms to operate in China, so that local companies can absorb their technologies.
The truth is that the West cannot or will not absorb refugees in the numbers needed; and it has no solution to the problem of failed states.
Because black particles contain soot and absorb sunlight, they are believed to increase global warming.
Indeed, the Palestinians themselves have always agreed to absorb refugees in their future state, but this was conditional on granting refugees the right to choose.
Finally, although it’s possible to put a price tag on precious but non-marketable natural resources – like the capacity of a boreal forest to absorb atmospheric CO2 – the price fluctuations for resources that can be traded make most conservation strategies untenable in the long run.
If so, perhaps we should be far more worried about the ethical and social implications of material growth that is faster than humans can spiritually absorb.
Likewise, while the Iranian economy has created 600,000 new jobs each year since the JCPOA took effect, this has not been enough to absorb Iran’s massive youth bulge.
China’s rebalancing will enable it to absorb its surplus savings, which will be put to work building a social safety net and boosting Chinese households’ wherewithal.
New ideas are often difficult to accept, and they require investment in a different way of thinking that can be difficult to absorb, even for people as smart as Stiglitz and Summers.
Managing forests, rivers, grasslands, and coral reefs in sustainable ways makes them more resilient and increases their ability to absorb greenhouse gases, which is good for business.
The second cost is implicit, but potentially far more substantial: because sterilization bonds are forced savings (and deflationary by definition), they absorb the potential investment and consumption implied by today’s trade surplus.
The sectors best equipped to absorb these young Arabs are tourism, construction, and agriculture.
Moreover, a declining share of the European food market and diminished investments in real estate undermine the capacity of agriculture and construction to absorb young workers.
The reason is simple: changes in exchange rates absorb the pressures that in a pegged regime lead to crises.
By 2046, the projected outlays for the “mandatory” entitlement programs (Social Security and the major health programs), plus interest on the debt, would absorb more than all of the revenue that the government would collect with current tax rates.
China now stands ready to absorb some of that surplus saving to promote a shift toward internal demand.
According to the International Monetary Fund’s most recent estimates, the total write-offs on financial claims in this crisis will be $4.05 trillion for the United States, Japan, the euro zone and the United Kingdom, of which the US alone will have to absorb $2.7 trillion.
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