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But it was civic activity - resistance movements, strikes, and other manifestations of social support – that buttressed Solidarity.
Rapid expansion of agricultural activity is requiring more and more water all across the continent.
Tax data account for distributed GDP and cover a broader swath of economic activity than traditional measures of output.
Greek wages and prices have already fallen sufficiently to restore competitiveness; the country now needs a framework in which private economic activity can thrive.
The Bank of Japan’s Haruhiko Kuroda and the European Central Bank’s Mario Draghi maintain such policies to this day, in order to stimulate economic activity and counter deflationary pressures.
The new unconventional monetary policies in both countries are obviously missing the disconnect between asset markets and real economic activity.
As scientists have conclusively shown, in the last decade, we have entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, in which human activity – in particular, economic activity – has been the dominant factor influencing Earth’s climate and environment.
Using economic and social data from the last five decades, the so-called Earth 3 simulation provides new projections about the future impact of human activity.
As economic activity in the region picks up, and the slack in capacity utilization begins to shrink, the relationship between growth, unemployment, and investment should return to normal.
The plan itself recognizes that its adoption implies another “lost decade” of economic activity and will weaken the island’s debt sustainability, thus perpetuating a crisis that all parties would like to end .
A second flaw is that the plan’s GNP projections ignore the endogenous feedback effects that declining economic activity will have on fiscal revenues.
A reduction in public spending that depresses economic activity also reduces the tax base.
But most of the earnings subject to the minimum tax would not be the result of profit-shifting to tax havens; they would be generated by real economic activity to serve foreign markets.
Financial speculation and complex risky innovation may prove far more responsive than real economic activity to low interest rates.
Only when R rose strongly did we have good cause to believe that economic activity was rising.
After the government clamped down on lending for residential and commercial projects, risky shadow banking activity surged.
Unfortunately, a big part of these banks’ profits stems from trading securities – exactly the sort of high-risk activity that got them into trouble in the run-up to the 2008 global financial crisis.
On the contrary, he made nuclear disarmament the chief focus of his political activity for the remainder of his life.
By contrast, the Modi government plans to pursue a pro-growth agenda that includes reducing bureaucratic delays, increasing infrastructure investment, stimulating manufacturing activity, and shifting to a simpler unified tax system.
Even so, the tax had no significant effect on entrepreneurial activity, according to a study by the economists Donald Bruce and Mohammed Moshin.
Far from being a drag on productivity, estate taxes could boost economic activity.
As a result, Japan’s commercial banks, hypersensitive to the risk and uncertainty associated with interest-rate fluctuations, have not responded to QE by increasing their lending activity.
Indeed, so-called “repo” activity – that is, the sale of a US Treasury obligation that the seller promises to buy back later at a slightly higher price – has declined considerably, with the balance of such transactions having fallen from $5 trillion before the crisis to $2.5 trillion today.
To be sure, an unexpected slowdown in economic activity or a strong rise in the value of the euro could postpone the inevitable rate hike.
He tightened legislation aimed at throttling civil society, pursued lawsuits against protesters, and blocked the activity of Alexei Navalny, a promising opposition politician.
Their collective commitments to stimulate, regulate and restructure global economic activity helped to calm nerves around the world.
With Treasury yields spiking and economic activity collapsing, the Fed would want to cut interest rates and flood the markets with liquidity.
In Nairobi, increased agricultural activity in the Upper Tana watershed resulted in such heavy sediment runoff that it reduced water flows downstream to the city.
Diversification into non-traditional products and adoption of new production techniques can transform agriculture into a quasi-modern activity.
All of this, according to Reinhart and Rogoff, involves a “protracted and pronounced contraction in economic activity.”
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