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Some, such as growth monitoring, day care services, preschool activities, or improved hygiene or health services, work directly with children.
By reducing the amount of funding available to regular firms, especially SMEs, such activities drive up the average interest rate on loans.
Finally, Chinese banks’ activities are impeded by outdated and unnecessary regulations, including limits on how much credit they can extend in a year and a 75% cap on the loan-to-deposit ratio.
In order to evade such controls, banks are moving a larger share of their lending activities off of their balance sheets.
Either way, at a time when we need serious investigative journalism and intelligent analysis of economic trends and business activities more than ever, the capacity to deliver them is rapidly being eroded.
Even including related programs and organs (like the UN Development Program and the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees), as well as peacekeeping activities (which involve more than 110,000 international military, police, and civilian personnel), the UN system’s total cost is still only around $30 billion a year.
And capital markets mobilize resources for activities that are expected to be profitable; those that adequately respond to prices.
At the same time, regulation and taxation should be used to rein in disruptive day trading and other exploitative speculation that crowds out sustainable investment and disrupts regular business activities.
In its 2012 report on extreme weather, the IPCC said that it puts little trust in any attribution of hurricanes to global warming.The authors of one of the central Science papers for the UN’s hurricane estimates put it clearly: “It is premature to conclude that human activities … have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane activity.”
The authors of one of the central Science papers for the UN’s hurricane estimates put it clearly: “It is premature to conclude that human activities … have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane activity.”
Another reason to scrap income and move to presumptive taxation of corporate activities stems from the EU’s decentralized nature.
Hamas’s rejection of the Oslo Accords bore political fruit as it became increasingly clear to Palestinians that the handshakes on the White House lawn would not produce the coveted end to the Israeli occupation, or even of Israel’s illegal settlement activities.
The report also warns that, for those targeted by such activities, distinguishing between espionage and preparations for serious cyber attacks is virtually impossible.
After all, actions about cyberspace can be misunderstood just as easily as activities in cyberspace.
While accusations of insufficient oversight over hackers’ activities have been leveled specifically at China, the challenge of tracking potentially disruptive cyber activities extends to all current and future cyber powers.
While there is a small possibility that stronger language from the US will lead China to curb its alleged cyber-espionage activities, the more likely outcome will be akin to a cyber arms race, with an increasing number of countries striving to become cyber powers in their own right.
That is, when the effects of a financial institution’s activities are sufficiently large, the country affected should be allowed to assume regulatory power, irrespective of the institution’s domicile.
This increasing exposure to people – and hence to ideas, activities, and even diseases – could explain the impact of city size on socioeconomic outcomes.
If we continue with business-as-usual emissions from activities such as burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests, concentrations could reach 750 ppm by the end of the century.
The US has so far insisted that it will agree to a comprehensive dialogue only if Iran first suspends its enrichment activities.
But the Islamic world is the custodian of huge natural resources that back its trading and financial activities.
Airline companies are owed $3.7 billion, causing many to suspend activities and overall service to fall by half.
This approach was central to the World Bank’s activities up to the 1970’s, and, while it has been partly revived, it is still far from being incorporated into the Bank’s operations.
Third, because skills are necessary for nearly all activities in most of Africa, here and now, we need to organize ways to supply such skills to these countries.
Most have a Twitter or Facebook account, or post frequently on YouTube, in order to keep the public in the countries where they serve (and at home) informed of their daily activities, or occasionally their thinking about an issue or even their mood.
The adverse economic impact implied by such efforts is not nearly as large as one might expect; in many cases, it could be more than offset by other kinds of commercial activities that take advantage of live sharks.
It has already reacted furiously to attempts to curb its powers and rein in the activities of its intelligence apparatus.
After all, the Iraqi Shia are Arabs, and if they are now willing to coordinate their activities with their Persian counterparts, their main goal will always be to secure an independent course as soon as possible, even while they carry on with their internecine disputes within Iraq.
The efficiency savings of academia occur downstream from the activities of the universities themselves.
Fewer working hours will also provide more opportunities for travel, eating out, and other activities that create jobs for service workers.
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