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It is not a matter of ill will on the part of these countries; they simply cannot afford to extend these services.
But globalization makes it more difficult for developing countries to retain the talented individuals needed for institutional development, because the wages of talented people are set globally; many states, if not most, simply can't afford to pay what it takes to create the institutions they need.
As we seek to control disease, can we afford to mandate controls over reproduction?
Protests by some parties that could not afford the high cost of TV spots and billboards mirror similar complaints in the US.
They recognized that, at a time when institutions everywhere are straining to remain relevant, we cannot afford to lose a pillar of world order, simply because of the predilections of a small man.
But the world cannot afford to sit back and watch the institution of the US presidency disintegrate.
After the ugly scandal surrounding Dominique Strauss-Kahn, her predecessor at the Fund, the Fund, critics will insist, can’t afford such a distraction.
Why Economists Put Health FirstPALO ALTO – In an ideal world, everyone, everywhere, would access the health services they need without having to pay more than they could afford.
Indeed, a fundamental lesson of terrorist attacks and insurgencies, we now know, is that no nation, however self-sufficient, can afford to remain heedless of whether others sink or swim.
Because GCC countries can afford to expand their workforces without running the risk that the share of their elderly population will increase over the long run, they enjoy constant young-to-old and consumer-to-producer “support ratios.”
Equality before the law remains an empty promise for those who cannot afford to make use of it or simply do not know how to do so.
Latin America cannot afford to lose gifted innovators like von Ahn.
If Africa is to finance its development priorities and meet the Sustainable Development Goals, it cannot afford inaction.
The US simply can’t afford the current tax cuts making their way through Congress.
In other words, back then the US could afford to enact major tax cuts.
But solving it will take more than a generation, and Europe cannot afford to wait for economic recovery.
In these circumstances, Asians cannot afford to sit back and moralize.
Europe cannot afford not to resist Russia’s geopolitical aggression, and it needs to be unified to have any chance of success.
For the Socialist Party, which is eager to return to power but has not yet recovered from the humiliating defeat of Lionel Jospin in the first round of the presidential election in 2002, the question is whether it can afford to resist the wave of favorable public opinion behind Royal.
When poor families have fewer children, they can afford to invest more per child in health, nutrition, and schooling.
But a much-improved fiscal framework also helped – in countries like Chile and Brazil, fiscal policy could afford to become strongly counter-cyclical – and so did the rapid recovery in commodity prices in 2010.
Subsistence farming of traditional food grains, fruits, and vegetables is giving way to cash crops and monocultures dependent on high-priced inputs that small farmers cannot afford and water that they can’t provide.
Source and destination countries urgently need to make it easier and safer for people to move, or to remain where they are if they cannot afford or choose not to leave.
Governments should educate their citizens about the effects of climate change, in order to prepare those who want to stay or cannot afford to leave.
Of course, when enemies are already attacking, one cannot afford to ask too many questions.
Finally, diffusion depends on whether countries can afford to purchase the new technology.
But she dropped out of secondary school because her family could not afford the $6 in monthly fees.
If they came to be accepted as the guiding principles of European policy, Europe’s economy would become petrified, with stagnant growth making it impossible to afford even modest levels of social transfers.
The central bank cannot create growth in an economy that has a bad supply side; in the US, with highly competitive markets, the central bank can afford to stand by.
But for someone as smart as Gates, who can afford to hire experts on any subject under the sun, some of his foundation’s strategies are baffling.
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