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China’s success may vindicate a model advanced by the late Nobel laureate economist W. Arthur Lewis, which explains how employment in new, more productive sectors can absorb surplus labor and push up wages over all.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel first declared that her country had a historical obligation to absorb refugees, before backing down in the face of political criticism.
When you discuss this issue with our American allies, they fail to understand why an EU of 350 million people hesitates to absorb less than 8 million people in order to mend historic fences.
The political recalibrations occurring in the world’s major economies highlight the limits on the level and pace of immigration a society can absorb without excessive disruption; on citizens’ willingness to abide centralized, let alone supranational, rule; and on public tolerance of economic weakness.
Moreover, MENA public sectors can no longer absorb rising numbers of university graduates.
But it is difficult to see how the resulting growth could have been as high – reaching an unprecedented 10% or more annually in per-capita terms – without a global economy able to absorb these countries’ exports.
The conference came at a time when developing countries and emerging markets have demonstrated their ability to absorb huge amounts of money productively.
They were more than our then-protected economy could absorb, so many tens of thousands of them left to make their fortunes elsewhere, founding companies in Silicon Valley, inventing the Pentium chip, and even winning a couple of Nobel Prizes.
A finding of discrimination would establish a landmark legal precedent, putting core values of non-discrimination and equal justice beyond dispute at a time when Europe’s politicians consider how best to absorb millions of new immigrants and minority members.
In such a scenario, a damaged bank could absorb more losses and remain in operation, diminishing creditors’ incentive to run.
Under the current plan, certain creditors are designated in advance to absorb a failed bank’s losses once the equity is wiped out.
In addition, because China has built up a capacity to invest that is far larger than its domestic economy can now absorb, it will inevitably seek opportunities abroad, both public and private.
In the case of Greece and Portugal, for example, the tourism industry might absorb some unemployed retailers.
What culture will they absorb?
It has become much more capital- and skill-intensive, with greatly diminished potential to absorb large amounts of labor from the countryside.
In such economies, tradable services cannot absorb more than a fraction of the labor supply.
One would think that market prices should be volatile as investors try to absorb what this earnings volatility means.
The ETC Group, an American non-governmental organization, has already outlined a future scenario in which the major agrotechnology corporations move upstream and absorb the seed and pesticide producers.
Of course, mining cannot absorb so many workers, so the rest of the Malawian labor force must seek jobs in considerably less productive parts of the economy.
The natural-resource industries that globalization promotes have limited capacity to absorb employment out of traditional sectors.
The Polish Communists did not intend to build democracy; their plan was to absorb moderate opposition groups into a partially modified political system.
A Fair Deal on Climate ChangeThe agreement on climate change reached at Heiligendamm by the G8 leaders merely sets the stage for the real debate to come: how will we divide up the diminishing capacity of the atmosphere to absorb our greenhouse gases?
First, if we apply the principle “You broke it, you fix it,” then the developed nations have to take responsibility for our “broken” atmosphere, which can no longer absorb more greenhouse gases without the world’s climate changing.
Third, the richer nations are better able than less well-off nations to absorb the costs of fixing the problem without causing serious harm to their populations.
But there is a solution that is both fair and practical:The fairness of giving every person on earth an equal share of the atmosphere’s capacity to absorb our greenhouse gas emissions is difficult to deny.
If a single event affects a significant portion of the population, not only will demand for social support grow too rapidly for the government to absorb, but the shock may decrease government revenues at the same time by, for example, lowering tax or export revenues.
Now Iceland’s banks, having borrowed several times the national GDP, are in desperate trouble, with debts far beyond what the small country’s taxpayers can absorb.
Capital buffers to absorb losses during the downturn of the cycle can be more easily built during the upswing.
They – we – can invest in classic items that don’t age so fast, and absorb these low-cost trendy disposables as the mood hits.
But the bond market is not large enough to absorb it all, so some has now returned to the stock exchanges, leading to a partial recovery in share prices, with the Shanghai index reaching 3,500.
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