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A striking 85% of large Dutch firms report innovative activities, while more than 50% of all firms are “innovation active.”
This price advantage will enhance America’s competitiveness as a manufacturing location, particularly for energy-intensive activities.
Growth in energy and energy-intensive industries will fuel additional demand, output, and employment across a wide swath of supporting activities, including transportation, construction, and professional services.
Nowadays, online retailers use consumers’ Internet activities and other personal data to deliver “targeted pricing.”
But Abe’s central objectives – improving Japan’s ability to respond to threats that do not amount to armed attack; enabling Japan to participate more effectively in international peacekeeping activities; and redefining measures for self-defense permitted under Article 9 – are actually relatively modest.
All parties will explore six elements of a deal that North Korea is seeking: a peace treaty to replace the 1953 armistice, comprehensive sanctions relief, an end to US-South Korea military exercises, diplomatic recognition, acceptance of North Korean space activities, and nuclear energy assistance.
Indeed, by the early 2000s, more than four-fifths of an average North Korean’s household income comprised unofficial earnings from market activities.
Were the US Senate to fail to ratify New START, the treaty’s proponents argue that the US would lose predictability about Russia’s nuclear activities, resulting in greater distrust and risk of miscalculation, making both sides less secure.
But their activities are insignificant, primarily because Russia's megarich tend to be more concerned with their reputations in the West than at home.
This perverse outcome becomes possible when there is severe technological dualism in the economy and the more productive activities do not expand rapidly enough.
Proponents of helicopter money – directly crediting citizens with central bank funds, or crediting national treasuries to finance infrastructure and other demand-generating activities – rightly argue that it has the advantage of putting money directly into the hands of those who will spend it.
According to a review by the OECD, 43% of microfinance activities in Bangladesh in 2010 had strengthened the resilience of communities.
Government can also reduce corruption by limiting the reach of its activities.
Contracting out some activities to nonprofit/nongovernmental organizations should be considered along with improved external monitoring.
For example, we can support informal activities, such as waste recycling, that give low-skill young people a chance to earn money.
It is not uncommon for a grant to be restricted to specific activities, leaving major gaps in a program’s capacity to meet its objectives.
And yet criminal networks – entrenched relationships between legal and illegal agents engaged in organized criminal activities – continue to play a large role in these countries’ formal and informal economies and political institutions, rending the social fabric and threatening further progress.
The totality is based on a series of complex relationships that connect legal and illegal worlds, including politicians, judges, and prosecutors who are willing to alter sentences for money; policemen and military personnel involved in illegal activities; and businessmen who launder money.
Illegal, unreported, and unregulated economic activities are common.
Industries and activities such as fisheries, shipping, and seabed mining are all regulated separately.
Likewise, running a foundation may well require studying social problems or the arts and sciences – activities that may not accord with former capitalists’ inclinations and talents.
Compounded by the deepening integration of the region through Chinese migration and extractive development policies, Uyghur protests erupted throughout the late 1990s, eventually leading to isolated bombings, attacks on Uyghur sympathizers to Chinese rule, and violent responses to Chinese police actions against illegal social gatherings and activities.
Quite courageously, Mesic stuck his neck out by testifying in the Croat cases at the Hague tribunal for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and by pursuing his own brand of reconciliation politics in Bosnia and Montenegro, activities that many thought would kill off his chances in electoral politics.
Enrollment is voluntary and expanding gradually; the poorest, who are fully subsidized, have preference and are required to participate in health promotion activities.
One of the major areas of agreement during the recent crisis has been that deregulated financial activities can be a source of major macroeconomic disruptions.
In 1989, following pressure from Parliament, the government commissioned David Calcutt to chair a committee to “consider what measures (whether legislative or otherwise) are needed to give further protection to individual privacy from the activities of the press and improve recourse against the press for the individual citizen.”
Private health insurance has proved enormously wasteful, with large administrative expenditures on activities that include developing insurance packages, marketing those packages, and assessing claims.
Public funding eliminates these activities, resulting in far lower administrative costs.
When the two sides are anxious to avoid provoking each other, such activities are kept to a minimum, but it would seem that China has taken a conscious decision in recent months to keep the Indians on their toes.
At his meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Yang Jiechi, Mukherjee was told what his hosts thought of the Dalai Lama’s activities and statements in India, and was reminded that the border incidents reflected different perceptions of where the border lies.
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