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Many of those earning less than $100,000 can also afford to give something.
With near-zero interest rates, most Western governments cannot afford not to borrow.
And, with higher incomes, more people will be able to afford to care for the environment.
Whether Xi’s appeal to India to “settle the boundary framework quickly” was an exhortation or a warning, other Asian countries can no longer afford to ignore their own border disputes with China.
This is the arrangement that allows migrants from rural areas to work in cities across China, but does not afford them the same rights as urban-born dwellers.
But Japan can no longer afford to be silent or vague about growing global insecurity, as the crisis next door on the Korean peninsula demonstrates.
Israel cannot afford a second Gaza in the West Bank and East Jerusalem; for the Palestinians, a state with an ongoing Israeli military presence would be worthless.
With no time to lose, Europe cannot afford to miss its shortcuts to employment growth.
In fact, while the Saakashvili government’s clampdown showed the structural weaknesses of Georgia’s democracy, the aftermath has also shown that Georgia’s Western ambition remains intact, because the government understands that it cannot afford any long-term deviation from democratic norms.
But solving the complex coordination and distributional problems that such adjustments will generate will not be easy, and, convinced that we cannot afford an aggressive mitigation strategy at a time when we are faced with so many other pressing challenges, policymakers could be tempted to defer action on the ground.
In the 97 countries in which malaria is endemic, it ravages the economic productivity of those who can least afford it: poor people with limited access to treatment and care.
At a time when so many connections have been broken, this is an opportunity that Europe cannot afford to pass up.
For decades, countries borrowing from the World Bank and regional development banks have begged for the loan process to be expedited; most cannot afford to wait more than two years to find out whether a loan has been approved.
Europe cannot afford to lag behind.
In a low-growth environment, in particular, developing countries cannot afford to make the same mistake.
Moreover, 14% of the region’s inhabitants lack enough income to afford basic healthcare.
A religious zealot with nuclear weapons is a dangerous combination the world cannot afford to tolerate.
Many of these desperate Syrians – consisting primarily of those who could not afford to flee sooner – will head toward Turkey and onward to Europe.
Given the scale of the looming catastrophe, the world cannot afford to leave things as they are.
Schmitt advocates a global order that universalizes the Monroe doctrine: great nations stake out inviolable zones of geographic influence, or Grossraum, from which they afford each other mutual respect.
And most developing countries in Asia have reached an economic stage at which large segments of their populations will soon be able to afford cars and plane travel for the first time.
Poor countries cannot afford these investments on their own, so rich countries must help.
In today’s world, however, no great power can afford to operate in a vacuum.
But one thing is certain: Europe cannot afford other “distractions.”
If employment in the export industry is significant, as is true in most places that do not rely on oil revenues, the wages that the export sector can afford will affect the wages of everybody in town.
We cannot afford to let this opportunity pass us by.
This seems right: people around the world can barely afford the rising health-care and school-tuition costs they currently face – costs that seem to increase each year faster than overall inflation.
Thus, the euro could afford to weaken substantially.
Generally, cities in developing countries cannot afford architectural jewels such as Notre Dame; but they can have formidable pedestrian avenues shaded by enormous tropical trees.
With resources so scarce, developing countries cannot afford the luxury of such waste.
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