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Export-led growth has proved to be necessary for economic development for the simple reason that countries need to purchase technology from world markets (much of it in the form of high-tech machinery), and they can afford to do so only if they are generating sufficient export earnings.
If you did, that’s a luxury that the world’s poorest billion people can’t afford, because they have to live for an entire day on what you spent on just one of those drinks.
One reason that we can afford to increase the amount of aid we give is that the amount we are giving now is insignificant in comparison to what we spend on other things.
If savings no longer yield a return, people can’t afford big-ticket items or pay for retirement down the road.
Israel cannot afford to lose one major war, as it would mean the end of the Jewish democratic state.
We can no longer afford to rely on old-fashioned examination for mega-banks loaded with mass-produced risks.
But it has long been recognized that subsidies can be just as destructive as tariffs – and even less fair, since rich countries can better afford them.
While Merkel opposes Hollande’s proposal to create Eurobonds with a view to financing industrial projects, they cannot afford to waste time in reassuring jittery markets with a message of cohesion.
On the contrary, the risks of extended political instability and further large-scale disruptions to Nigeria’s oil output will remain high, at a time when the world can least afford it.
He could afford to explore possible avenues for a peace regime, he thought, because North Korea’s nuclear sword provided immunity from US attacks.
Can the United States still afford a suburban lifestyle, with sprawling homes in far-flung communities that require long-distance automobile commutes?
Wealthy countries worry about recession, while the poor can no longer afford to eat.
Apart from anything else, there is an important domestic political reason for US reticence: a Democratic US president cannot afford to look “soft.”
The tragedy of Korea is that no one really wishes to change the status quo: China wants to keep North Korea as a buffer state, and fears millions of refugees in the event of a North Korean collapse; the South Koreans could never afford to absorb North Korea in the way that West Germany absorbed the broken German Democratic Republic; and neither Japan nor the US would relish paying to clean up after a North Korean implosion, either.
The reason is apparent: she has judged that she cannot afford to lose the support of American trade unions such as the United Automobile Workers, whose members fear a reduction in tariffs on car and trucks.
But if the stock market is doing poorly, the rules of the games are not responsible and we cannot afford to change them.
Part of the problem is that poor households cannot afford the up-front costs of solar technologies.
It would be relatively cheap and simple, involving expanded distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets, more preventive treatment for pregnant women, increased use of the maligned pesticide DDT, and support for poor nations that cannot afford the best new therapies.
– nor afford another trial.
Having a single currency has turned out not to afford substantial protection.
The bloated French public sector, which many see as the employer of last resort, cannot afford its expensive personnel.
And in countries like the United States, the distribution of income and wealth is so skewed that lower-income households cannot afford to invest in measures to adapt to rapidly changing employment conditions.
Our talent pool isn’t really a billion, some argue; it’s only the well off and middle class, maybe 300 million strong, who can afford to play sports.
While such anniversaries are not exactly cause for celebration, they at least afford an opportunity to look back and examine what has changed – and, no less important, what hasn’t.
Europe cannot afford a dogfight between these two founding member states, so it’s high time to put emotions aside and review their differences on the future course of European integration.
We can no longer afford, politically or financially, the discriminatory nature of the current system of nuclear “haves” and “have-nots.”
But there is a different system, widely practiced in poorer countries that cannot afford Western-style hospitals, and centered on community-based healthcare.
China’s Misrule of LawPHILADELPHIA – A last-minute deal between the United States and China may afford human-rights lawyer and activist Chen Guangcheng the opportunity to enroll in law school in New York.
First, unlike health care, where we can afford to proceed incrementally, the need for comprehensive financial reform is pressing.
Distressed economies cannot afford to pay more than $350 to avoid each ton of CO2, which could be cut on the European market for about 50 times less.
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