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Overall productivity in the economy is not helped much when firms become more productive by shedding workers, who end up in informal activities characterized by substantially lower productivity.

This could mean providing day-care services and preschool activities, improving hygiene and health services, or teaching parenting skills.

But we live in a globalized world, and nowadays, Japan’s citizens are acquiring considerable income from Japanese activities abroad.

To be sure, foreign activities are not the only reason why GNI is growing more quickly than GDP.

The seventh Framework Program, worth some €50 billion – a 40% increase over the sixth program – is perhaps the most prominent funding source tool through which the EU supports R&D activities.

But open-ended incentives have their own costs: they can raise consumer prices and bottle up resources in unproductive activities.

Questions will be raised about which sanctions are to be eased and when; about the terms of compliance inspections; and about what will happen once some of the limits on Iran’s nuclear activities expire.

My visit focused, first, on measuring the impact of Phosboucraa’s activities, such as infrastructure investment, the construction of job training centers, and partnerships with farming cooperatives.

Second, I was to consider how well those activities conform to UN doctrine on natural-resource exploitation in non-self-governing territories – namely, that they benefit the territory and its inhabitants until Western Sahara’s ultimate political status is determined.

There are surely many useful activities for the government to undertake in a market economy, but a frenzied orgy of stimulus spending is not conducive to rational discussion of what they should be.

Then, at the last minute, the Macron campaign’s computers were hacked, releasing a trove of emails revealing that members of the candidate’s party had engaged in nefarious activities, like paying their employees, reserving tables at restaurants, and exchanging files for each other to read.

For example, within the Russian Federation, a law that entered into force just over a year ago requires non-governmental organizations that engage in “political activities” to register as “foreign agents” if they receive any funding from abroad.

The law defines political activities as actions intended to influence government policies; therefore, they include the work of all human-rights organizations operating in Russia.

Any initiatives to support economic development must support this population’s transition toward higher-productivity activities.

Only four trials, with 373 patients, could provide data on death or dependency (becoming dependent on others for activities of daily living).

One such feature is that Islamic finance emphasizes asset-backing, thereby ensuring a direct link between financial transactions and real economic activities.

Government and commercial activities virtually ground to halt this spring as democracy activists, in alliance with politicians and lawmakers opposed to a third term, battled Obasanjo’s allies to thwart the proposed bill.

Self-empowering technological innovation is all around us, affecting a growing number of people, sectors, and activities worldwide.

Through an ever-increasing number of platforms, it is now easier than ever for households and corporations to access and engage in an expanding range of activities – from urban transportation to accommodation, entertainment, and media.

At the same time, the US and other powers with a stake in Afghanistan must seek to reduce Indian activities in Afghanistan that Pakistan sees as threatening, or, if those policies are not threatening, assure greater transparency for them.

The Dalai Lama and his followers are given a respected place but told not to conduct “political activities” on Indian soil.

It is a simple idea that would allow millions of people in poor, rural areas worldwide to integrate their activities with the wider economy, accumulate capital, and improve their lives.

While some variation in attitudes towards markets and enterprise did exist, the biggest differences were situational, rather than attitudinal: people in some countries had lower expectations of success and thought that government regulations would stymie their activities.

But the stage of post-financial trauma is very different from the heart-attack moment: it is more akin to general heart weakness, in which the activities of the patient are slowed down and reduced.

The aftermath of the crisis is thus likely to include not only enhanced bank regulation and heavier taxation of many banking activities, but also institutional devices to apply pressure on banks to lend more.

But there remain deep fissures over which preferences should be eliminated and which activities currently outside the corporate tax base should be brought into it.

As the US embarks on corporate tax reform, policymakers should bear in mind that other countries are using carrots, not sticks, to compete for the activities and income of global companies.

And his 1960 paper “The Problem of Social Cost” proposed that the state could manage the negative externalities, such as pollution or traffic, of economic activities through well-defined property rights.

Often invoking investor- and market-friendly language, they have generally encouraged private investment, especially in desired economic activities, such as those that create more job opportunities or offer increasing returns to scale.

Governments must study these activities and their consequences the same way they study transnational criminal or terrorist organizations.

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