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Public Health England’s recommended dietary allowance for adults and children over the age of one is 400 IU (10 mcg) per day.
Some people may need more than the recommended dietary allowance – if they are obese or taking anti-convulsive medications, immunosuppressants, antifungals such as ketoconazole, or medications for HIV/AIDS – though it is important to consult a physician before initiating such a regime.
To address this distortion head on, and to provide clarity concerning the allocation of funds, the EGF should focus its limited funds on two simple active labor market programs: wage insurance and mobility allowance.
The mobility allowance could offer those moving for a new job a lump-sum payment of two months’ gross pay in the previous job, or four months’ pay for cross-border moves.
In most countries, the US dollar value of GDP growth handsomely exceeded what would be expected from real growth and a reasonable allowance for the accompanying Balassa-Samuelson effect.
Now the World Food Program fears that another famine is looming – the country’s agricultural output will likely fall to 1.8 million tons of grain, far short of the 4.8 million tons needed to supply the meagre ration of 7ounces a day (half the daily allowance for those in UN refugee camps) ordinary North Koreans receive.
The US tax code allows interest payments to be deducted as a business expense; there is no equivalent allowance for payments to equity investors.
One reason for this failure is that pillar 1 of the Basel II Agreement, which outlines how banks around the world should assess credit risks and determine the size of capital buffers, makes no explicit allowance for long-swing fluctuations in asset markets.
Apparently, magistrates in the imperial China of centuries ago were paid an extra allowance so as to "nourish their honesty".
The second limitation of long run models is this: they are estimated from history and so make no allowance for dramatic changes in the supply side or financial environment.
Without this short-time allowance, the average number of unemployed in 2009 would be 300,000 higher than it is now.
Firms can readily compare their cost of abating an extra ton of emissions with the cost of the allowance required if that ton is released into the atmosphere.
A well-functioning allowance market – with broad participation and pricing that reflects underlying fundamentals – reveals this latter cost.
I think Bob Hall has a better read on what is going on: "With allowance for other factors holding back GDP growth during those wars, the multiplier linking government purchases to GDP may be in the range of 0.7 to 1.0... but higher values are not ruled out....Multipliers are higher – perhaps around 1.7 – when the nominal interest rate is at its lower bound of zero, as it was during 2009...” (and is today).
National governments could establish a personal allowance to exempt retail investors.
She pays extra for exceeding the weight allowance.
For example, subsidies encouraging car owners to trade in their old models bolstered the automobile industry, while the introduction of a short-time working allowance supplemented wages, allowing struggling companies to avoid shedding employees.
Such policies have been shown to work in places like Brazil, whose pioneering Bolsa Familia (or family allowance) policy provides cash transfers to poor families on the condition that their children attend school, eat properly, and fulfill other criteria to improve well-being.
Those who are self-employed are immediately entitled to supplementary Hartz IV benefits, housing allowance, and the child benefit (which, for a family with five children, is €1,018 ($1,335) per month – more than twice the net salary of an average worker in Bulgaria or Romania.)
Social benefits, for example, are paid only for a limited amount of time; they are then replaced by a minimum living allowance, which represents an exclusion from society.
It is also pursuing an expansion of its EITC that will extend it to workers without children and self-employed workers, and will provide an extra $1,000 allowance to eligible families with children under six.
Its political culture makes little allowance for flexibility, and its party structure is deeply fragmented.
While the International Monetary Fund has begun to make some allowance for restrictions on capital flows, albeit only as a temporary last resort for weathering cyclical surges, the dogma of financial globalization remains intact.
He must not pardon a labourer who went home at a busy time because his father had died – sorry as he might be for the man – part of his pay had to be deducted for the precious months during which he had been absent; but he could not neglect giving a monthly allowance to old domestic serfs who were of no use at all to him.
Each of them carried on his back a Rouquayrol device that the air tanks had supplied with a generous allowance of fresh oxygen.
'What!' he said to himself, 'not even an allowance of five hundred francs to complete my studies!
The town of Verrieres is simply bound to increase his income with an allowance of five hundred francs; that is all.''And to think that the Mayor hasn't been able to stop it!'
Approaching the fire, he took from his mouth a large allowance of the Virginian weed, and depositing it, with the superabundance of its juices, without mercy to Miss Peyton's shining andirons, he returned to his goods.
After reflecting whether he rightly understood the meaning of the other, the surgeon, making due allowance for the love of learning, acting upon a want of education, replied,-"The moon, you mean; many philosophers have doubted how far it affects the tides; but I think it is willfully rejecting the lights of science not to believe it causes both the flux and reflux."
"Try a drop of the gift," said Betty, soothingly, pouring a large allowance of the wine into a bowl, and drinking it off as taster to the corps.
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