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But the way to minimize the pain is to cut spending without cutting output, which requires selling to others what residents can no longer afford.
As a nation of laws, the US can hardly afford to operate outside the scope of a rules-based global trading system.
But, when it comes to global stability, the world simply cannot afford a free-riding Europe.
Poor countries are, indeed, so poor that they cannot afford the drugs even at the production cost of around $350 per patient, per year, because even these reduced prices amount to a year's average income.
Thus, few Africans can afford AIDS treatment even when supplied by generic drug producers.
Any viable solution requires that the following conditions be satisfied:- drug companies – whether patent holders or generic drug producers – must provide drugs to poor countries at prices near to production costs;- drug prices in rich countries must remain higher through patent protection to preserve incentives for innovation;- rich and poor markets must be separated, so that cheap drugs from poor countries are not smuggled into rich countries (or are not allowed in legally through parallel-market imports);- governments in rich countries must provide substantial assistance to poor countries, so that the poor – who are too poor to afford these drugs even at reduced prices – can make use of them.
Bush's objective, however, was not to maintain the strength of the economy; it was to push forward a tax agenda that shifted the burden away from those who could best afford to bear it.
This new, more focused and limited American role thus raises the following question for America’s European partners: Can they afford the luxury of being unable to defend themselves without US help?
For example, if farmers could use it to get more accurate predictions of favorable conditions for planting, or to obtain higher prices for their harvest, they would be better able to afford sanitation, so that their children do not get diarrhea, and bed nets to protect themselves and their families against malaria.
The US could easily afford to do more.
The US cannot afford a continuing massive drain of demand through an external deficit, while complaints about loss of competitiveness will intensify in the EU.
It would not be surprising if most of the signatories actually raised their energy consumption in coming years, turning to fossil fuels because they cannot afford any other option.
Raging tweets are meaningless to people who can scarcely afford a dignified living, let alone tickets to the modern-day Colosseum to watch football.
They do not account for larger international forces at work, especially those affecting developing countries that cannot afford strong social-welfare programs.
But, with the process far from complete, the country cannot afford to relax its efforts.
Given recent cuts in aid for education, some might object that focusing on quality and emotional intelligence are luxuries that we cannot afford.
Until then, water-starved communities dig for water, if they can find it and if they can afford to pump it out.
Poor countries cannot afford these technologies on their own.
Sweden does not have fewer one-man enterprises today than other developed countries -- the problem is that most small enterprises can't afford to employ anyone but the owner.
Indeed, perhaps the most important lesson learned in the aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Brothers is that we can no longer afford to examine problems in terms of individual institutions and from regulatory “silos.”
Many homeowners who can afford to make their mortgage payments will choose to default, move to rental housing, and wait to purchase until house prices have declined further.
Some argue that the global economy cannot afford adaptation.
If we truly want to build a sustainable, prosperous, and equitable future, we cannot afford to wait.
Before the Great Leap Forward, townships could barely afford a few full-time cadres.
It remains to be seen whether the US, with its economic might, can afford Trump’s protectionist approach.
Unsurprisingly, many companies and households can no longer afford their energy bills.
(That said, the US cannot afford a Fed chairman who is overly supportive of the financial sector and unwilling to regulate it.)
The term describes the prolonged adolescence that young people must endure until they can afford marriage, the region’s institutional and cultural gateway to societal recognition, not to mention sexual activity.
Certainly, some other species also benefit from the protections that we afford birds, but many other species do not.
Europe cannot afford to continue throwing money at the problem and praying that growth and time will bring salvation.
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