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Recent months have seen dozens of suicide bombings and other terrorist activities – the price of Pakistan’s own past blunders, as well as those of the West.
The banking system would not survive this without help, so the EU’s bailout activities should be refocused accordingly.
Decentralized local governments, which have little authority over remote clinics, cannot supervise their activities.
I was in Brasilia two weeks ago, when the entire country was commemorating the 50th anniversary of the military coup with cultural events and public activities.
At the same time, it has combined this hard-power approach with attractive soft-power activities in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), as well as efforts to use its universities as hubs of regional non-governmental activities.
Participants should also consider how to combine NATO’s activities with the budding European security and defense system.
As the radicals leave, so does Saudi money, which funds their violent activities.
By contrast, both America’s worldwide system and other countries’ hybrid territorial systems rely on an “origin or source principle” that bases taxation largely on where input costs and production activities are located.
Structural change means constantly improving existing activities and generating new ones, moving from one sector to another and absorbing surplus labor, increasing the contribution of individual workers, and promoting the integration of productive sectors within the domestic economy.
For example, short-term GDP grows as a result of productive activities that pollute or degrade the environment, but not as a result of unpaid housework, childcare, and other obviously valuable activities that it barely accounts for (if at all).
New rules limiting the scope of bank activities are in place in the United States, and soon will become law in the United Kingdom – and continental Europe could follow suit.
The interviews recorded both subjective factors, such as how satisfied respondents are with their lives, and objective factors, like standard of living, health, and education, as well as participation in culture, community vitality, ecological health, and the balance between work and other activities.
Iran’s reformists could capitulate to hardliners, scrap the JCPOA altogether, resume nuclear activities, and accelerate the country’s ballistic missile program.
Both Polanski and DSK were engaged in sexual activities with women who were far from being their equals, in age and social status, respectively.
Chua’s focus is unrelentingly on solitary activities in the home, with no encouragement of group activities, or of concern for others, either in school or in the wider community.
And all children whose parents bar them from such activities miss the opportunity to develop social skills that are just as important and rewarding – and just as demanding to master – as those that monopolize Chua’s attention.
Such activities have left Pakistan isolated.
Moreover, a Tobin tax moves financial traders – talented people with strong work habits – into other activities, which (policymakers hope) will benefit the economy more.
Reef-based activities (principally fishing and tourism) form the economic livelihood of millions more.
Japan’s Self-Defense Forces played an important role in rescue and restoration activities, with about half of its 200,000 personnel dispatched to the damaged area.
Educational exchanges under the Fulbright and Humphrey Scholar programs and cultural outreach activities should be increased.
Yes, Citi and Bank of America were centrally involved, but the activities that generated major losses were fully permissible under Glass-Steagall.
A return to monetary decentralization would require radical policy changes, including the implementation of 1930’s-style laws enabling regulators to monitor banks, ensure that deposit insurance is credible and comprehensive, and halt off-balance-sheet financial activities.
Malaria-related health insurance costs for expatriate workers and their families provide a powerful disincentive for manufacturing activities.
Malaria further obstructs travel, industrial activities, commerce and tourism.
In Switzerland, the two largest banks (UBS and Credit Suisse) had a combined balance sheet in fall 2008 of around 8 times Swiss GDP – mostly based on their global activities.
And now the Swiss National Bank is moving in the exact opposite direction to Geithner – they are pushing these big banks to become smaller and to finance more of their activities with equity, rather than debt.
Through their ability to spread risk across broad portfolios, insurers have enabled high-risk activities for centuries.
And that is also true of activities that contribute to the highest risk in human history: global warming.
There was no way, of course, for anyone either to invest in or to bet against the success of any of the activities promoted by the social epidemics – no professional opinion or outlet for analysts’ reports on these activities.
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