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We Europeans cannot afford to turn our backs on our Arab friends along the far shores of “mare nostrum.”
While a rich country like the US arguably can afford the behavior described in the so-called Luxembourg Leaks, the poor cannot.
But no country, especially in Africa, can afford to lose so much talent and potential.
For these challenges – of which AI is one – policy cannot afford to wait for science to catch up.
But, in the context of algorithms, machine learning, and AI, humanity cannot afford to wait.
Auto companies can’t afford to produce two different sets of cars for states with strict and lenient emission rules.
These countries can no longer afford to wait.
Policymakers cannot afford to wait decades for economists to figure out a definitive answer, which may never be found at all.
And, with Egypt in need of massive financial aid to offset the economic losses caused by its February revolution, its leaders can ill afford to alienate the Saudis, who view Iran, not Israel, as the gravest threat to regional stability.
The world economy needs them – and no consumer-facing company can afford to ignore them.
Businesses would move to countries where the regulatory climate is the most benign, exposing other countries to risks that they cannot afford to run.
Quite simply, the vast majority of Israelis agree with Netanyahu in a fundamental respect: A small country surrounded by enemies, in a chaotic region of failing states and vicious non-state actors like Hamas, Hezbollah, and now the Islamic State, cannot afford to run elections on socioeconomic platforms as if it were a peaceful West European duchy.
Here’s the basic budgetary challenge: it costs at least $250 in a poor country to educate a child for a year, but low-income countries can afford, on average, only around $90 per child per year.
Both immediately confronted the international financial constraints that opposition politicians can afford to ignore.
In the case of North Korea, where nuclear arms are in play, it cannot afford to be.
Most farmers, particularly in the global South, will never be able to afford expensive digital-age machinery.
Official Russian opinion looks forward to “the interpenetration and integration of the EEU and the Silk Road Economic Belt” into a “Greater Eurasia,” which will afford a “steady developing safe common neighborhood of Russia and China.”
Rich countries like Germany can afford to pile more and more indirect taxes on business, and erect more and more obstacles to the efficient operation of business for a long time.
But even Germany can't afford to expand the socialist stranglehold of labor on what is supposed to be a capitalist economy, for one day worker use and abuse of the political system will cannibalize economic substance.
As Moqbel Abdullah Ali al-Jarraah, a villager from Silat al-Jarraah, put it: “I believe that America is testing its lethal inventions in our poor villages, because [it] cannot afford to do so at any place where human life has value.
They cannot afford to alienate the roughly 30-35% of Americans who passionately back him, ignore his personal transgressions, tolerate his degradation of the country’s civil discourse, favor his brutal treatment of immigrant families, and don’t mind that he is leaving the US almost friendless in the world.
If the US wants to preserve an open, stable global financial order, it cannot afford to ignore the current turmoil in emerging markets.
The question is no longer whether we can afford to do something, but rather how to control emissions in an equitable and effective way.
The world cannot afford to stand by as schools are shut down and children become afraid to pursue an education.
We cannot afford to drive blind into the nanotechnology future.
Europe cannot afford to remain on the sidelines.
If we can afford that much to save banks, we can afford something more to save the planet.
As I argued in my 2007 book Cool It, the most rational response to global warming is to make alternative energy technologies so cheap that the whole world can afford them.
France could afford to reduce its profit tax rate to 25%, as Macron has proposed, without losing significant tax revenues.
In his provocative American Economic Review paper “A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas,” Mundell argued that as long as workers could move within a currency region to where the jobs were, the region could afford to forgo the equilibrating mechanism of exchange-rate adjustment.
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